Umerov was born in Samarkand in Uzbekistan to a Crimean Tatar family that was deported from then-Soviet Crimea in the 1940s.
Umerov, described as a talented negotiator by people close to him, was a member of the Ukrainian team that held negotiations with Russia in March 2022. / Photo: Reuters
Umerov, 41, who would replace Oleksii Reznikov as defence minister, is a Crimean Tatar, a Turkic people from the Black Sea Ukrainian peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014. Since 2020, Umerov has been a member of a Ukrainian government task force working on the strategy to end the occupation of Crimea.
Umerov, described as a talented negotiator by people close to him, was a member of the Ukrainian team that held negotiations with Russia in March 2022, one month after Russia's offensive.
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