The footage indicates that President Vladimir Putin has for now kept his two most powerful military men, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gerasimov, in their posts
despite demands from mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin to sack them over alleged incompetence in running military operations in Ukraine.
The Defence Ministry said the footage showed Gerasimov at a meeting on Sunday. It described him as chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces and commander of Moscow’s forces in Ukraine, the positions he held before the mutiny. Since a deal was brokered to defuse the mutiny, Putin and the Kremlin have sought to project a business-as-usual image, with the president chairing a range of meetings, visiting crowds in Dagestan and even hosting a young girl for a guided tour of the Kremlin.
Prigozhin said Putin’s top military men would be forced to eat the guts of fallen soldiers in hell for what he said was the incompetent and treasonous way he alleged they were running what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine. In the footage released on Monday, the faces of most of the participants in the video call were blurred out, though Surovikin’s deputy, Afzalov, was shown.
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