Sergei Shoigu
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Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu is a Russian politician and military officer who has served as secretary of the Security Council since 2024. He served as Minister of Defence of Russia from 2012 to 2024. S
Shoigu in 2024
Shoigu as Minister of Emergency Situations, 2003
Shoigu and Vladimir Putin in April 2008
Shoigu, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev at the Moscow Victory Day Parade, May 2014
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru
Sergei Shoigu
…confidant and ally of president Vladimir Putin, Shoigu belongs to the siloviki of Putin's inner circle. He was entrusted with the task of supervising the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2022. A feud between Shoigu and Yevgeny Prigozhin led to a mutiny by the Wagner Group in June 2023. The International Criminal Court has issued…
Protesters at a rally on Independence Square, 19 January 2014
The Normandy Format meeting in December 2019 was the only meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin.
Russian military build-up around Ukraine as of 3 December 2021
Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on 12 January 2022