Putin removes Sergei Shoigu as Russian defence minister

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has removed his long-standing ally Sergei Shoigu as defence minister, as the war with Ukraine rages on.

The Kremlin announced the 68-year-old has been in the role since 2012 and is to be appointed secretary of Russia’s Security Council.

A civil engineer by profession, Shoigu rose to prominence as the head of the emergencies and disaster relief ministry in the 1990s. The mercenary chief died in a plane crash while flying from St Petersburg to Moscow in August 2023. The Kremlin denied it was to blame. Kremlin press spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the proposed appointment of a civilian showed the role of defence minister called for “innovation”.

 

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