The mercenary group ended their short-lived rebellion after their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin agreed to a truce brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The Wagner Group is preparing to hand over its "heavy military equipment" to Moscow's forces, the Russian Ministry of Defence has said. The milblogger claimed that the Kremlin may replace Mr Burdinsky for his inability to account for convicts, the ISW said. Other milbloggers claimed that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is investigating Dyumin's connection to Prigozhin and Wagner's reported access to Pantsir missile systems, it explained.Ī Kremlin-affiliated milblogger suggested Moscow may reshuffle a number of other roles as well, including the Head of the General Staff's Main Organisational and Mobilization Directorate Colonel General Yevgeny Burdinsky. Russian milbloggers began a campaign promoting Tula Oblast Governor Alexei Dyumin to replace Shoigu as by amplifying a video in which he visited a volunteer battalion on 25 June.
"It is currently unclear if the Kremlin will replace Shoigu and Gerasimov, but it is unlikely that the Kremlin would make such drastic command changes immediately since doing so would seem to be conceding to Prigozhin's demands," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said.ĭespite this, Russian sources have continued to speculate about Russian military command changes following the mutiny, it added.
The Kremlin is trying to signal that Sergei Shoigu will remain in his position as Russian defence minister, and that Vladimir Putin will not give into Yevgeny Prigozhin's "blackmail attempt", a US-based thinktank has said.ĭuring the Wagner Group's armed rebellion at the weekend, Prigozhin demanded Mr Shoigu was removed from his post due to his handling of the war in Ukraine, as well as the Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
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