Russian milbloggers began a campaign promoting Tula Oblast governor Alexei Dyumin to replace Shoigu by amplifying a video in which he visited a volunteer battalion on 25 June. "It is currently unclear if the Kremlin will replace Shoigu and Gerasimov, but it is unlikely that the Kremlin would make such drastic command changes immediately since doing so would seem to be conceding to Prigozhin's demands," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said.ĭespite this, Russian sources have continued to speculate about Russian military command changes following the mutiny, it added. He also called for Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov to go. The Kremlin is trying to signal that Sergei Shoigu will remain in his position as Russian defence minister, and that Vladimir Putin will not give in to Yevgeny Prigozhin's "blackmail attempt", a US-based thinktank has said.ĭuring the Wagner Group's armed rebellion at the weekend, Prigozhin demanded Mr Shoigu be removed from his post due to his handling of the war in Ukraine.
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