Ukraine's defense minister summoned to the Duma over scandal with defective mines

Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov has been summoned to the Verkhovna Rada in connection with the scandal related to the supply of low-quality mines to the Ukrainian army. This was reported on December 3 by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

"The defense Minister Rustem Umerov was summoned to the Duma about scandals about defense orders," he wrote in Telegram-channel.

The MP added that it was necessary to collect from 150 votes of deputies to make a decision. As a result, 153 votes were collected.

In November this year in Ukrainian social networks appeared videos in which fighters of the Armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) complain about low-quality mines. It was specified that when attempting to fire the ammunition got stuck in the barrel of the gun or "spit out" at a couple of dozens of meters.

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Earlier, on November 26, MP Oleksiy Honcharenko (included in the Russian Federation in the list of terrorists and extremists) submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft resolution on Umerov's resignation.

The Ukrainian daily Strana.ua said on 20 September that Umerov had recently been increasingly criticized by the mass media and activists close to Western structures.