Ukraine’s President Volodomir Zelenskyy said on Sunday he was replacing the nation’s minister of defense, Oleksii Reznikov, as the government begins investigations into allegations of official corruption, the New York Times reports.
Reznikov himself has not been accused of any corrupt acts, but many who work under him are being investigated for graft. “Oleksii Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war,” Zelenskyy said in a statement Sunday night. “I believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large.”
Zelenskyy is expected to appoint Rustem Umerov, the chairman of Ukraine’s State Property Fund, a state agency that is overseeing the transfer of property that was once state-owned into private hands.