2024-06-04 16:14:27
The chief of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, started a purge of the management of the Ministry of Protection on an unprecedented scale. He truly adopted the recommendation of the now thought-about deceased chief of the Wagnerites, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In latest weeks, he has put into follow what the top of PMC Wagner repeatedly referred to as on him to do, and that is solely the start.
CNN writes about this.
Consultants unanimously referred to as the Ministry of Protection some of the corrupt in Russia. And it’s the combat in opposition to corruption that Russian state media clarify the continuing resignations and arrests. However analysts say Putin is definitely making an attempt to punish those that didn’t deliver him victory in Ukraine and discover those that will assist him resist the West.
Hanging over the reshuffle within the navy management is the specter of Prigozhin, who earlier than his demise “expressed hatred of Shoigu and Russian Normal Gerasimov with profanity, accusing them and the ministry of corruption and incompetence,” notes CNN. After eliminating Prigozhin, the Kremlin is making an attempt to not elevate the difficulty corruption and is once more making an attempt to divert public consideration with but extra tales in regards to the invincibility of the military.
The Kremlin rapidly hushed up the difficulty of the ineffectiveness of arms purchases and the general failure to invade Ukraine. On the identical time, consultants defined to American journalists that in Russia corruption isn’t actually thought-about one thing unhealthy, so purges don’t have anything to do with it.
Earlier, Kursor reported that the “greatest” tank of the Russian military fell right into a lure and was destroyed by a drone of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The T-90 Vladimir tank was put into service in 1992, Putin referred to as it “one of the best on this planet.”