Putin moves to replace Shoigu as defence minister

Russia n President Vladimir Putin has moved to replace defence minister Sergei Shoigu in a major shake-up to Russia 's military leadership more than two years into its Ukraine offensive.

Despite a string of military setbacks in the first year of the campaign, including the failure to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and retreats from the Kharkiv alongside southern Kherson regions, Mr Putin supported Mr Shoigu until now. "The defence ministry must be absolutely open to innovation, to the introduction of all advanced ideas, to the creation of conditions for economic competitiveness," state media quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in a briefing on the appointments."That is likely why the president has settled on the candidacy of Andrey Belousov," he added.

The pair were regularly photographed on nature retreats in the Siberian wilderness, hunting and fishing together. "As for the military component, the appointment will in no way change the current frame of reference," state media quoted Mr Peskov as saying in a briefing. Mr Prigozhin, who marched on Moscow calling for the pair's removal, died in an unexplained plane crash weeks after his aborted mutiny.

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