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Vladimir Putin’s generals vulnerable despite surviving revolt

Defence minister and army chief seen as ‘lame ducks’ but could stay on as president’s loyalists

Vladimir Putin is due to summon his security council for its weekly meeting in the next few days as the Kremlin attempts to claim its invasion of Ukraine will continue as planned. That effort will hinge on what the Russian president will decide to do about the pair of his generals who were the targets of the failed mutiny.

Defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, commander of Russia’s invasion force, have not been seen in public since Yevgeny Prigozhin launched an extraordinary coup to oust them.

Though Prigozhin and his Wagner paramilitaries ultimately halted their march on Moscow, with the warlord agreeing to leave Russia, he has left both men increasingly vulnerable in his wake.

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