Cabinet of Ministers approves two more deputies for Ukraine's defence minister – photos

The Cabinet of Ministers has appointed Anatolii Klochko and Oleksandr Serhii as deputies to Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umierov.

Source: Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Details: The government's website states that Anatolii Klochko is a professional military officer, he was born in Kharkiv, graduated from the Saratov Higher Military Command Engineering School Missile Forces, in 2003 he graduated from the National Defence Academy of Ukraine, and in 2019 he graduated from the National University of Defence of Ukraine.

"He was the commander of a missile brigade of the Army Corps from 1999 to 2005. He headed the Central Missile and Artillery Directorate in 2018-2020. He served as the head of the Central Directorate for the provision of munitions from 2020 to 2022," the Cabinet of Ministers website writes.

Oleksandr Serhii graduated from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School and received a degree in military management of the operational and tactical level at the Kyiv Institute of the Ground Forces.

He has held senior positions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2010, being responsible for the army's logistics.

Umierov currently has nine deputies.

Background: On 5 October 2023, the Cabinet of Ministers appointed three more deputies to the Defence Minister.

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