Ukraine denied reports in the local media that the family of Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has US citizenship. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports this.
“The claim that the family members of Defense Minister Rustem Umerov are US citizens (…) is not true. The minister’s children (a 10-year-old son, 8- and 2-year-old daughters) are exclusively Ukrainian citizens. The ministry’s publication states that members of Umerov’s family do not have citizenship of other countries.
Before that, the Ukrainian agency UNIAN had published on its Telegram channel copies of documents showing that three children of Defense Minister Umerov were US citizens.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that Umerov’s children received their Ukrainian passports from the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States because the previous documents had expired. “That is why in the declaration referred to by the media, the place where the documents were issued – the United States” was stated, the ministry said.
The presence of the Defense Minister’s family outside their homeland was declared an assassination and threat by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, and as a result, Umerov’s relatives went to the USA in 2016.
On December 21, one of Zelensky’s associates reportedly appeared. Russian citizen.
On the same day, the head of the Ministry of Defense Umerov announced mobilization plans those who left From Ukrainian men.
They made an offer in Russia before create a mechanism Integration of prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into civilian life.