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Rosenberg: Russian President Putin's military purge echoes Prigozhin's call to act
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c900qz4wll4o
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When one top defence official is arrested in Russia, that’s interesting.When five senior defence figures are handcuffed in less than a month, that’s a purge.The latest senior military man to be locked up is Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the army’s general staff and head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.Accused of large-scale bribe-taking, he’s been placed in pre-trial detention for two months.Hours later came the news that a senior defence ministry procurement official, Vladimir Verteletsky, has also been detained.
In a recent reshuffle, President Vladimir Putin replaced his defence minister of 12 years, Sergei Shoigu, with technocrat economist Andrei Belousov.
Wagner fighters took over key military installations in southern Russia and began marching towards Moscow.
And, shortly after, he lost his life in a plane crash.But, one year on, a Kremlin-backed purge of the army has started.And this tells us something about Vladimir Putin.
At a time of his choosing.What isn’t clear is how far this purge of the Russian military will go; how many more senior figures will end up behind bars.The former commander of Russia’s 58th army, Maj-Gen Ivan Popov, was arrested this week on suspicion of large-scale fraud.
Last year he had announced he had been sacked after complaining to military leaders about problems on the front line in Ukraine.
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