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head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine

Rustem Umerov is a Ukrainian statesman of Crimean Tatar origin who has headed the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine since August 2026. He was born in 1982 in Samarkand, and in 1991 his family returned to Crimea. In 2019 he was elected to parliament for the Holos party. From September 2022 he headed the State Property Fund, and from September 2023 to July 2025 he served as defence minister. He then spent a year as secretary of the National Security and Defence Council and took part in peace talks mediated by the US.

MykVisti covered his work at the Defence Ministry: staff changes and the scandal at the Defence Procurement Agency, drone and missile production, mobilisation and the updating of conscripts' data.

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