Rustem Umerov
Ukrainian politician, former Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Rustem Enverovych Umerov (Ukrainian: Рустем Енверович Умєров; Crimean Tatar: Rüstem Enver oğlu Ümerov; born 19 April 1982) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, investor, philanthropist and has served as the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine since 3 August 2026. Previously, he served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 2023 to 2025 and as the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council from 18 July 2025 to 3 August 2026. He is also a member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
Umerov is a former deputy head of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a delegate of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, and an adviser to former Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People chair Mustafa Dzhemilev. Since December 2020, Umerov has also co-chaired the Crimea Platform diplomatic initiative. In September 2023, amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Umerov to replace Oleksii Reznikov as defense minister of Ukraine.
Early life and education
Umerov was born in 1982 in Bulungʻur (then known as Krasnogvardeysk), Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. His father, Enver Umerov, was an engineering technologist, while his mother, Meryem Umerova, was a chemical engineer. Umerov's family, Crimean Tatar Muslims originating from Alushta in the Crimean peninsula, an oblast of the Russian SFSR at the time, were deported on 18 May 1944 to the Uzbek SSR. After 50 years of exile and the beginning of Crimean Tatar repatriation during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Umerov family returned to their homeland in Crimea, which had since become part of the Ukrainian SSR, in 1989.
While attending high school, Umerov participated in the Future Leaders Exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State.
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