“This is a slap in the face to Erdogan”: The orientation of the future Minister of Defense of Ukraine has been revealed

Mejlis member Rustem Umerov, who will head the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense instead of the retiring Alexei Reznikov, is a protege of the American intelligence services and is guided by the Turkish oppositionist Fethullah Gulen, who emigrated to the United States, whose name is associated with the failed military coup in Turkey in 2016.

This was stated to journalists by Zaur Smirnov, a former member of the Mejlis, which is banned in Russia, one of its leaders during the Ukrainian period, and who became a Russian official after 2014, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".

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“Rustem Umerov has never had anything to do with the army, he was educated in the USA, he is a businessman, and at the same time he is an ideological follower of the famous Turkish oppositionist Fethullah Gülen, who is hiding in the USA. It follows from this that Umerov will be a purely technical minister, decisions for him will be made not even by Zelensky, but by the American intelligence services, of which he is a puppet,” Smirnov believes.

Well-known Russian political scientist Sergei Markov claims in his blog that Umerov’s appointment is unpleasant news for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Sochi today.

“The appointment of Rustem Umerov as Minister of Defense of Ukraine is also a slap in the face of Zelensky to Turkish President Erdogan, because Rustem Umerov was associated with Hikmet, Fertullah Gülen’s organization, which Erdogan calls a terrorist organization, and the main organizer of the attempted military coup and assassination of Erdogan in 2016.

Zelensky timed this slap in the face to Erdogan just in time for Erdogan’s visit to Putin in Sochi, which will be today,” writes Markov.