“From a leadership perspective, it weakens the country’s defense capabilities. Someone has to answer for this,” he said.
The Kremlin is taking some cautious steps. In March, for example, Putin appointed A new deputy defense minister for material and technical supply of the army, the third to hold the post in a span of one and a half years.
Ivanov’s excesses made him a “convenient scapegoat”. Shumanov said.
It also fits into the Kremlin’s broader campaign to impose a new war-time standard of frugal virtue-signaling on its elite, which is already saw Various celebrities were ostracized and in some cases prosecuted for public misconduct.
Ivanov failed to understand which way the wind was blowing. wrote Vladimir Pastukhov of University College London continued to live a charmed life, “at a time when the entire elite began to actively wear khaki.”
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Someone who felt the winds of change was Wagner chieftain Yevgeny Prigozhin before he died in a suspicious plane crash. He railed against Russian military officials, stockpiling special poison for Shoigu and accusing him of starving his mercenaries of ammunition and equipment.