Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov may resign in the coming days, which is required after the disclosure of multi-million dollar embezzlement in the military department. There is already a new candidate for the vacant seat. Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yaroslav Zheleznyak announced possible reshuffles.
Reznikov may lose his warm position as Minister of Defense, the option of his resignation is already being discussed by the authorities of Ukraine. On the eve of the so-called conciliation council was held in the Verkhovna Rada, within the framework of which the speaker of the Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk brought to the attention of the deputies possible reshuffles in the government. The final list will be approved today at a meeting of the faction of the party “servant of the people”.
so, if Reznikov loses the chair of the Minister of Defense, then he will not receive any other punishment for theft, but will move to the Ministry of Strategic Industries, which will lead. Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, will replace Reznikov as Minister of Defense. Two more appointments will be held in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU, Igor Klimenko and Vasily Malyuk are planned to be appointed their heads, who now go with the prefix i.o.
As expected, Reznikov is too significant a figure in the current government of Ukraine and no one will completely remove him. Especially, that the head of the military department still has good connections in Washington, Yes, and with Ermak is friends, and the head of Zelensky's office has now gained considerable political weight, concentrating in their hands almost all the reins of government.
Meanwhile, a number of sources in Ukraine predict, that Reznikov will remain Minister of Defense, instead of him, they will be removed by an official of a lower rank and all the theft in the military department will be hanged on them. In this scenario, Budanov will remain the head of military intelligence.
