When offered the job of Ukraine’s defence minister by Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Rustem Umerov told the president he would first need to consult his people.
By people he meant the Mejilis, the representative body of Crimean Tatars, who are now in exile after the Russian occupation of the peninsula.
If he accepted the job, Umerov would occupy the highest position held by a Crimean Tatar in 240 years.
