Alexei Kucherenko, a member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada from the Batkivshchyna party, called the appointment of Andrei Belousov to the post of Minister of Defense of Russia tragic for Kiev. The deputy wrote this on his page on the social network Facebook, commenting on a post by economist Alexei Kushch (the owner of the Meta company is known as an extremist in Russia and is banned).
Kucherenko thanked Kushch for his in-depth analysis of Belousov’s activities as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government and called his appointment as head of the Russian Ministry of Defense a tragic event for Ukraine.
Before that, Ukrainian economist Kushch named Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to appoint Belousov as defense minister is very bad news for Kiev.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense of the Russian Federation Andrei Kartapolov on May 12 statedPresident Putin’s decision to appoint Belousov as Minister of Defense shows that such a person is needed in office today.
Putin before offered appointed former Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov as head of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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Source: Gazeta
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