Russia s security and intelligence service FSB is leading the purge against the Russian defence leadership with President Vladimir Putin s blessing, according to reports
The arrests began last month when a Russian deputy defense minister was detained. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face corruption charges. They started shortly before President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term and shuffled his ally, longtime Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, into a new post. The changes immediately raised questions about whether Putin was reasserting control over the Defense Ministry amid the war in Ukraine, whether a turf battle had broken out between the military and the security services, or whether some other scenario was playing out behind the Kremlin’s walls.
It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face charges of corruption, which they have denied.
27 months into Ukraine invasion, Vladimir Putin is purging Russia's generals, with 5 detained within past month: a move v. corruption or regime in-fighting?
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