The yellow continues around health status Sergei SchoigandRussian Defense Minister and (former) very loyal Wladimir Putin. After disappearing from the radar for about two weeks, the politician reappeared in some video conferences of Russian presidential advisers, but images circulated by the Kremlin media haven’t silenced the rumours. Corresponding Leonid Nevzlina former oil tycoon who was forced to leave Russia by Putin himself, Shoigu reportedly suffered a “major heart attack that was not due to natural causes.”
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According to reports in the Daily Mail, which in turn cites Russian sources, the former oilman is said to be alluding to an attempt by the president to assassinate Shoigu. “Now the defense minister is out of the game Nevzlin explained and if he survives he could be fired.” In addition, the former oilman revealed that 20 generals in Russia have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling about $10 billion allocated to the socalled “special operation in Ukraine. These arrests began as early as 2014, at the time of the annexation of Crimea, and testify to the split that exists between Putin and some senior army officers.
Putin’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had a “massive heart attack of no natural origin” https://t.co/Kovej5qxLt
Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 14, 2022
Shoigu, Defense Minister since 2012 and a historic ally of Putin (with whom he is also friends), was the first to have been responsible for the lack of success in the “flash war»Designed in Ukraine. According to various Western intelligence reports, the Russian president has become increasingly distrustful of his generals, leading to an outright purge at the top echelons of the army.
Who is Nevzlin?
Leonid Nevzlin, a Russian businessman of Jewish descent, is one of the oil company’s top executives Yukos forced to flee the country after the company was expropriated by the state in 2003 when Putin came to power. In 2008 he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. Nevzlin declared a few days ago that he was ready to give up Russian citizenship and that “everything Putin touches dies”.