- Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, top of the protection service’s faculty directorate, was captured on pay-off charges two days after Shoigu was supplanted.
- Shamarin is additionally at the top of the protection service’s primary correspondence directorate.
- Popov’s powers were battling in the Zaporizhzhia locale, perhaps the most controversial region in the Ukraine struggle.
A vice president of the Russian military general staff has been captured on charges of huge scope payoff, Russian news reports said Thursday, the most recent in a progression of payoff captures of high-positioning military authorities.
The capture of Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin followed the capture of these seven days of Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov, a previous top leader in Russia’s hostility in Ukraine, likewise on pay-off charges.
Deputy Russian Military Chief Arrested
In April, Appointee Protection Clergyman Timur Ivanov was captured for payoff. Ivanov was a nearby partner of Sergei Shoigu, whom President Vladimir Putin excused as a safeguard serve not long after Putin’s introduction to another term in May.
He is being held in care for a long time, Russian news organizations referred to a tactical post court as saying, yet different subtleties of the case were not detailed.
Shoigu had been broadly faulted for Russia’s inability to catch Kyiv right off the bat in the Ukraine battle and was blamed for ineptitude and debasement by hired soldier pioneer Yevgeny Prigozhin, who sent off an uprising in June 2023 to request the excusal of Shoigu and military head of staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov.
Under a month after Prigozhin’s bombed uprising, Popov was excused as commandant of the 58th Armed Force. He said he had addressed Shoigu about deficient gear that had prompted exorbitant Russian passings, and that his excusal was a “misleading” betrayal to Russian powers in Ukraine.
His excusal came one day after the 58th Armed Force’s base in the city of Berdyansk was hit in a Ukrainian strike, killing a high-positioning general.