Defense Ministry denies information about Umerov's children having US citizenship
Kyiv • UNN
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine clarified that the family members of Defense Minister Rustem Umerov are exclusively Ukrainian citizens, denying media reports that they have US citizenship. The children's passports were renewed at the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States.
The Ministry of Defense assured that the family members of Defense Minister Rustem Umerov are exclusively citizens of Ukraine, not the United States, as reported by the media, UNN reports.
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The information disseminated in the media that the family members of Defense Minister Rustem Umerov are allegedly US citizens is not true. The minister's children (son, aged 10, and daughters, aged 8 and 2) are exclusively Ukrainian citizens. Umerov's family members do not have any other citizenships
The Ministry of Defense emphasized that the minister's children received Ukrainian passports, which were issued to them after the expiration of their previous ones, at the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States.
"That is why the declaration referred to by the media indicated the place of issuance of the documents - the United States," the agency said.
The Ministry of Defense also added that in 2016, Umerov's family was forced to go abroad due to assassination attempts and threats as a result of Rustem Umerov's systematic activities to de-occupy the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Since 2014, Rustem Umerov, as a delegate of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, together with the Leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev and representatives of the Mejlis, spoke at all international platforms on human rights violations in the occupied Crimea, and was involved in the process of releasing political prisoners in Crimea
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