Russian President Vladimir Putin recently made a public gesture intended to punish Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for his inability to achieve the Kremlin's military goals in Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).The ISW, a U.S.-based think tank, wrote in a Thursday assessment of the war in Ukraine that Putin held a publicized meeting with a known rival of Shoigu as a way of possibly "seeking to reduce" the defense minister's power.The report from the ISW follows... Read this story
