Umerov decides to dismiss from the Defense Ministry: who lost his post
24 January 20:53
Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has decided to dismiss his deputy , Dmytro Klimenkov, and not to extend the contract with Maryna Bezrukova, the current director of the Defense Procurement Agency. The head of the ministry wrote about this on his official Facebook page on January 24, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
“The only criterion that the Ministry of Defense sets for the Defense Procurement Agency is to provide the frontline with all the necessary weapons on time and in full. Unfortunately, over the past six months, instead of timely supplying the army with ammunition, we have received political games, contract leaks, information leaks (law enforcement will definitely check these facts), PR inaction and failure to fulfill the KPI by a subordinate enterprise of the Ministry of Defense,” Umerov wrote.
The defense minister added that arms procurement, which should be closed during martial law and a full-scale war with Russia, “for some reason turned into an Amazon, where every Internet user can see in real time who is buying what, in what volumes and from which manufacturers.” And our defenders at the front have not felt the scale of these purchases, which would be at least commensurate with the PR in the media.
The Ministry of Defense is also withdrawing two state representatives from the Supervisory Board. This will set a precedent in the history of state corporate governance when two independent representatives of the Supervisory Board supported the position of the state, while the state-authorized representative of the state’s interests ignored the recommendations of the governing body.
The Supervisory Board will be relaunched in the near future.
Arsen Zhumadilov will be appointed as the Director of the PJSC. This year, the PJSC and the DOT had the same conditions. One agency did the job, the other only created media noise.
“There is a lot of talk about the purchase of weapons for the army, but the result is unsatisfactory. We are changing the system so that the result will be at the frontline, not in the news,” Umerov summarized.
