Menteri Pertahanan Ukraine Valery Geletei (Ukraine's Defense Minister Valery Geletei (RIA
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nusantaraIntlNews - Menteri Pertahanan Ukraine Valery Geletey secara rasmi meletak jawatan dengan Presiden Petro Poroshenko beliau menerima perletakan jawatan. Pemimpin Ukraine dijangka mengumumkan calon untuk Menteri Pertahanan baru pada hari Isnin.
Poroshenko berharap Parlimen di negara ini, Rada Verkhovna, akan menyokong pencalonan beliau akan mencadangkan & Menteri Pertahanan baru akan dilantik sebaik sahaja pada hari Selasa, Oct.14, satu kenyataan di laman web rasmi Presiden berkata.
"Saya yakin bahawa tidak akan ada kelewatan dengan undian orang Menteri yang baru. Saya menjangkakan ini akan berlaku pada hari Selasa, "kata Poroshenko.
Presiden Ukraine menegaskan bahawa ia adalah masa "untuk menukar kepimpinan tentera."
Valery Geletey, yang telah berkhidmat ‘served’ sebagai Menteri Pertahanan negara itu sejak 3 Julai, 2014, membuat laporan peletakan jawatan kembali pada hari Jumaat.
Beliau baru-baru ini telah menghadapi kritikan keras ke atas kegagalan operasi anti-pengganas Kiev di tenggara Ukraine, terutamanya di Donetsk dan wilayah Lugansk.
Terdahulu pada bulan Ogos, beratus-ratus penunjuk perasaan di Kiev, kebanyakan mereka ibu dan isteri-isteri tentera yang terlibat dalam pertempuran di Donetsk dan Lugansk, menuntut peletakan jawatan Geletey ini.
Sebagai Menteri Pertahanan beliau juga telah menjadi sebahagian daripada beberapa skandal.
Geletey mengancam untuk memfailkan saman undang-undang terhadap Geografi Timoshenko, yang menuduhnya dalam menjual senjata kepada militan di Donetsk dan Lugansk.
Pada bulan September, dia juga menuduh Rusia menggunakan senjata nuklear taktikal terhadap tentera pejuang Kiev. Ini mencetuskan komen menyindir dari Moscow dan kritikan dari saingan Kementerian Interior Ukraine.
BACA lagi: 'Mereka akan mempersendakan kami': Rusia digunakan pembinaan senjata nuklear 'tuntutan' menteri pertahanan Ukraine (READ MORE: ‘They’ll ridicule us’: Ukraine defense minister ‘claims’ Russia used nukes)
Ukraine umum sendiri kemudian menafikan dakwaan nuklear, mengatakan bahawa wartawan itu telah disalah tafsir kata-kata beliau.
Pada awal Oktober, atas Siasatan Agensi Rusia melancarkan kes jenayah terhadap Geletey atas tuduhan pembunuhan, penggunaan cara dan kaedah peperangan dan pembunuhan beramai-ramai ‘genocide’ dilarang.
UKRAINIAN Defense Minister RESIGNS, Poroshenko
to ANNOUNCE Another CANDIDATE . . .
Ukrainian Defense Minister Valery Geletey has officially stepped down with President Petro Poroshenko accepting his resignation. The Ukrainian leader is expected to announce a candidate for a new Defense Minister on Monday.
Poroshenko hopes the country’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, will support the candidacy he will propose and a new Defense Minister will be appointed as soon as on Tuesday, Oct.14, a statement on the Presidential official website said.
“I am sure that there will be no delays with the voting for a new Minister. I expect this will happen on Tuesday,” Poroshenko said.
The Ukrainian president stressed that it was time “to change the military leadership.”
Valery Geletey, who has served as the country’s Defense Minister since July 3, 2014, filed a resignation report back on Friday.
He has recently faced harsh criticism over Kiev’s anti-terrorist operation failures in south-east Ukraine, particularly in Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Earlier in August, hundreds of protesters in Kiev, many of whom were mothers and wives of the soldiers involved in the fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk, demanded Geletey’s resignation.
As a Defense Minister he has also been part of several scandals.
Geletey threatened to file a law suit against Yulia Timoshenko, who accused him in selling weapons to militants in Donetsk and Lugansk.
In September, he also accused Russia of using tactical nuclear weapons against Kiev army fighters. This sparked sarcastic comments from Moscow and criticism from the rival Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
The Ukrainian general himself later denied the nuclear allegations, saying that the journalist had misinterpreted his words.
In early October, Russia's top Investigative Agency launched a criminal case against Geletey over murder accusations, the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare and genocide.
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