Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defense minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilize the defense budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine.
MOSCOW - More than two years into the conflict, which has cost both sides heavy casualties, Putin proposed Andrei Belousov , a 65-year-old former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, to replace his long-term ally, Sergei Shoigu , 68, as defense minister.
"The proposal to appoint one of the main court economists and the main state minister in the economic bloc to head the Defence Ministry may mean that Putin is planning to win the war with the defense industry plants and international markets," said Alexander Baunov, a former Russian diplomat who is now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
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