Rada registers draft resolution to appoint Khmara as defense minister

A draft resolution to appoint Yevhen Khmara as Ukraine's defense minister has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada, according to a report by Interfax-Ukraine. The draft resolution, initiated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has already been submitted to parliament and referred to committee for review. The Verkhovna Rada Chairman, Ruslan Stefanchuk, had previously reported that the nomination had been received.

The foreign affairs minister and defense minister posts under the president's quota were left unfilled after the new Cabinet of Ministers was approved on July 16. Since July 20, Yevhen Khmara has been temporarily assigned the duties of defense minister by the government, as he was relieved of his temporary duties as head of the Security Service of Ukraine and chief of the SBU's Special Operations Center on July 17.

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