Mr Shoigu was shown flying in a plane and at a command post run by Russia’s Zapad (West) military grouping. Read more at straitstimes.com.
renegade Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had demanded that Mr Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff, be handed over to him so that he could “restore justice”.long been agitating for their removal.
The Kremlin said the question of personnel changes was the sole prerogative of President Vladimir Putin and could hardly have been part of any deal. He had tasked them with continuing active reconnaissance in order to reveal the enemy’s plans to thwart Ukrainian forces’ movements far behind the frontlines, it said.
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