You remember the story of the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, disappeared from public life for a few weeks and then when nothing “reappeared” except with the release of a photo (undated) by the Kremlin? Well, according to Leonid Nevzelin, a RussianIsraeli businessman and former oil tycoon, Putin’s minister had “a massive heart attack” that “could not have happened for natural reasons,” suggesting the tsar’s longtime ally may have been the subject of one assassination attempt by his own president.
Attempted Murder?
The hypothesis is reported by the British newspaper Daily Mail, which reports that Shoigu was last seen yesterday in a video conference with Putin and other ministers on Arctic developments, but without speaking or intervening: the hypothesis circulating is that the Kremlin previously footage of Shoigu used in his resignation from public appearances a few weeks ago. The heart attack would have left such strong marks that the 66yearold Shoigu could now seek therapy intensive. Citing Moscow sources, Nevzlin said the minister was “out of the game and could be disabled if he survives”. According to the tycoon, 20 Russian generals have been arrested in Russia and accused of embezzling up to $10 billion allocated to the war effort in Ukraine.
tensions with Putin
Shoigu, who was Putin’s righthand man and leader of the Russian army for a decade, was a mainstay in the first weeks of the war in Ukraine but recently disappeared from regular Kremlin briefings. There were suspicions tensions between Putin and Shoigu in late March on the invasion’s slow progress, with US intelligence suggesting that the two had split when Putin learned of the extent of Russian losses in Ukraine. there source According to this information, Nevzil is a former oil tycoon and senior oil executive, one of many Russian businessmen who were forced to flee when they were targeted by the Kremlin in 2003 after Putin decided to take over the Yukos oil company. He was sentenced in absentia to life in prison in 2008 for the Kremlin’s prosecution of Yukos top figures, and announced last month that he would relinquish his Russian passport, declaring that “anything Putin touches dies.”
Shoigu’s story
Shoigu was appointed Russia’s defense minister in 2012 and has been one of Putin’s closest allies for the past decade. The couple are known to regularly vacation together and are believed to have had a close relationship Friendship employees outside of their respective roles. As head of the Russian military, Shoigu would probably have been the first to feel the Russian president’s anger when he learned of the military’s lack of success in Ukraine.
Heart attack denial
As practically always and for any kind of news, Russia denies: In fact, the Ministry of Defense has denied the rumors that have been circulating in various media over the past few hours about the alleged “heart attack” of the department’s owner Sergei Shoigu and Leonid Nevzlin. According to several Russian analysts, the false information that has been released about Shoigu since the start of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine is intended to distract public opinion from the difficulties faced by the armed forces in Kyiv. In short, how to overturn (as always) the reality of facts.