All news on the topic: Sergei Shoigu

Vladimir Putin has designated Andrei Kozlov as an aide to the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Kozlov is affiliated with cybersecurity entities connected to the state defense corporation Rostec and, based on leaked information, possessed a classified security clearance granted through Military Unit 26165.

The Kremlin has significantly enhanced the personal security surrounding President Vladimir Putin, implementing surveillance systems in the residences of close staff members as part of new measures prompted by a series of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military personnel and concerns of a coup, according to a report from a European intelligence agency obtained by CNN.

Henichesk, a small resort town on the Azov Sea, was among the first Ukrainian population centers to be captured by the Russians.

For the past two years, something has been happening at Russia’s military command, and it isn’t good.

On the morning of June 18, 2023, the cargo ship Angara dropped anchor near the Russky Bridge, the towering span connecting the island of the same name to Vladivostok. Having departed Novorossiysk six months earlier, it was the vessel’s first stop at a Russian port since the start of its long journey.

The prolonged struggle concerning Shoigu’s closest associate, former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, has concluded. He has been detained and will face serious charges. All of Shoigu’s resources were mobilized in this effort, including leveraging Mikhail Kovalchuk’s influence and attempts to secure Tsalikov’s position in the Federation Council. However, none of these efforts succeeded.

Russia’s ex-First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov has been detained as part of an investigation into a criminal case regarding his alleged involvement in forming a “criminal community,” state-controlled news agency TASS reported earlier today, citing Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko.

A Russian diplomat has received a 12-year sentence in a maximum security penal colony for selling state secrets to the United States.

On the day of the thwarted assassination attempt on Shoigu, his heart and internal organs failed. A month in a coma.

Yuri Sadovenko, who served as a former deputy minister of defense of the Russian Federation and was a longtime associate of Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, has passed away at the age of 56 under circumstances described by sources as suspicious.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested dismissing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu from his position

The Russian president blasted as “traitors” organizers of a rebellion by armed mercenaries, the gravest threat yet to Putin’s authority.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner private military company, stated on Saturday that his troops encountered no opposition as they entered the city