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Arrests of Russian generals and officials raises questions about Putin's war machine
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https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-arrested-5-mod-officials-many-yet-to-come-2024-5
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Andrey Kozyrev, who served as the foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, wrote on X: "The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military.
“Putin has tolerated Shoigu building his empire, taking money from the defense budget, installing his corrupt cronies in return for loyalty,” he said.
That was followed by the arrests of the ex-commander of the 58th Guards Combined Arms Army, Ivan Popov, and later Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin and defense ministry official Vladimir Verteletsky.
Mark Galeotti, an honorary professor at University College London and senior research associate at the UK-based think tank the Royal United Services Institute, told BI he believed the clear-out was connected with the change in defense minister.
“If they’re bringing in Belousov with a mandate to get absolute control of the defense ministry’s finances, to cut down on waste and embezzlement, then now is the time to tackle the whole problem,” he continued.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former leader of the mercenary Wagner Group who was killed in a plane crash in August last year, had previously hit out at Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff, accusing them of incompetence and corruption.
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