President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is considering Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko for the position of defense minister, in the hope that this will help bring order to the mobilization process.
The RBC-Ukraine news agency reported this, citing its own sources.
An unnamed lawmaker from the Servant of the People faction told the agency that Zelenskyy’s reasoning is that, with Klymenko’s move to the Ministry of Defense, his ally Ivan Vyhivskyi, who currently heads the National Police, will take over as Minister of Internal Affairs.
According to the source, Zelenskyy believes that Klymenko, working in tandem with Vyhivskyi, will be able to bring order to the mobilization process.
As a reminder, earlier today, July 15, Mykhailo Fedorov confirmed his resignation as defense minister, a position he assumed on January 14 of this year. He outlined what his team had and had not managed to accomplish during that time.
Also today, media outlets reported that President Zelenskyy decided to dismiss Fedorov due to uncoordinated procurement and differences of opinion with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.
In addition, media outlets reported that Interior Minister Klymenko could become the defense minister in the new government.
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