KYIV, Sept 6 – Parliament has voted on Wednesday to approve appointment of Rustem Umerov as Ukraine’s new Defense Minister with the nomination getting support from across the political spectrum.

The bill was backed by 338 lawmakers in 350-seat Parliament, said Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Holos faction.

"The Parliament has appointed Rustem Umerov as the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. All the factions supported it," the parliamentarian wrote on his Telegram channel.