Russia’s defence minister has lastly come out of hiding because the revolt of the Wagner Group fighters.

Sergei Shoigu, who has lengthy remained a political ally of the president, appeared in public in the present day for the primary time since mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin demanded his ouster over failures through the struggle.

Footage launched by the Russian Defence Ministry seems to indicate the politician visiting troopers concerned in combating in Ukraine.

Shoigu might be seen flying in a helicopter after which assembly with navy officers at an unknown location throughout the border, although it isn’t clear when or the place it was filmed.

This comes as hypothesis continues to unfold on Russian Telegram channels that he’s being investigated, and below home arrest, pending his elimination from the Kremlin over theft of navy funds.

Further to this, there are rumours that Vladimir Putin has lined up Tula governor and former deputy defence minister Alexei Dyumin to interchange Shoigu. 

He is a trusted ex-bodyguard of the Russian chief who as soon as saved him from an assault by a brown bear. 

He can be thought to have performed a task within the pact that stopped Wagner’s ‘march for justice’ into the capital on Saturday.