Ukraine's defense minister was dismissed over the weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday, saying the defense ministry "needs new approaches."
"I have decided to replace the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. Oleksiy Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war. I believe that the Ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large," Zelenskyy said in his nightly address of Sunday.
Rustem Umerov, who previously led Ukraine's State Property Fund, has been named as the new defense minister.
The appointment comes as Kyiv appears to be making headway in its counteroffensive in southern Ukraine, with reports that the country's forces have broken through a first line of Russian defenses in the Zaporizhzhia region.