Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu increasingly in the crosshairs. Of Vladimir Putin but also of the head of Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The tension at the top of Moscow is rising more and more: in a video released by the Kremlin, which is making the rounds of social media, Putin and Shoigu visit the Vishnevsky central military hospital in Moscow, where they meet soldiers wounded during the war in Ukraine . Before handing over the medals to the military, Putin is close to the defense minister, but ignores him quite blatantly, even turning his back to him .
Even as they are posing for the ritual photo with the soldiers, the Russian president and Shoigu avoid each other, positioning themselves away from each other.
Yesterday the Russian president said in no uncertain terms that the conflict in Ukraine showed that in the Russian armed forces there are "inefficient generals, parquet generals (for receptions, ed.) not suited for war" . Now, he added, "other more efficient officers are starting to emerge from the shadows and need to be promoted."
In the morning, however, the harsh attack by the head of Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived: "The chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, General Valery Gerasimov, and the country's defense minister, Serghei Shoigu, should be shot for their incapacity " he said, also predicting that " their execution will take place in about two months ".
(Unioneonline/L)