MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was shown speaking to troops in a video released by his ministry on Monday (Jun 26), his first known appearance in public since a mutiny by the Wagner merc
There was no sound on the video and it was not immediately clear where or when the visit had taken place.
Prigozhin accused both men of gross incompetence and corruption and had long been agitating for their removal. In this photo taken from video released on Monday, Jun 26, 2023 by the Russian Defence Ministry Press Service, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, and Yevgeny Nikiforov, the commander of the Western Military District speak to each other on board of a military helicopter on their way to inspect a command post of one of the formations of the Zapad group of Russian troops at an undisclosed location of Ukraine.
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