There has been a lot of speculation over the past few days about the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin after it became known that the Kremlin boss skipped several important public appointments that were soon to take place. Now Russian state television has informed of an important announcement from Putin scheduled for next week.
“We are waiting for important statements,” said Pavel Sarubin, the moderator of the program “Moscow.Kremlin.Putin”, on the state broadcaster VGTRK on Sunday. Putin will therefore chair the annual expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry. An exact date for the meeting has not yet been announced. Putin is expected in Minsk on Monday for talks with Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko.
At a government meeting last week, the Kremlin chief had already called for changes to the armament plans. It is possible that the 70-year-old will continue to force the conversion of his own economy to a war economy as his own troops continue to have problems with supplies during the offensive war against Ukraine. Due to ongoing difficulties in the war, Putin has largely avoided the topic in recent weeks, also canceling the traditional annual press conference shortly before Christmas.
Shoigu visits troops
Meanwhile, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited his soldiers on the Ukrainian front, officials said. “The head of the Russian military authority flew around the deployment areas of the armed forces and inspected the front positions of Russian units in the area of the special military operation,” the defense ministry announced on its Telegram channel on Sunday.
In Russia, the war against Ukraine is officially called only “special military operation”. The text is accompanied by a video showing Shoigu in the helicopter. The report goes on to say that Shoigu listened to the commanders’ reports and talked to private soldiers. He also thanked them for their “exemplary performance of duty”. The visit was mainly about supplying the armed forces. After the partial mobilization ordered by Putin in September, numerous recruits complained that they were inadequately equipped and trained in Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine.
Schoigu had already inspected the front in the summer. In November, the minister was again assigned to the command staff of the units responsible for the war in Ukraine. Putin, on the other hand, has not been at the front since the beginning of the war – unlike his Ukrainian opponent Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who appeared close to the front on several occasions to address the soldiers.
Source: Krone
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