Good news for Ukraine: an ex-KGB officer explained the processes in the Russian Ministry of Defense

“Purges continue in Russia “at the Ministry of Defense. With the advent of the new minister Andrei Belousov, news appears almost daily about the detention of another official suspected of corruption.

Such The situation in the main Russian military department is very beneficial for Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by 24 Channel by former KGB and Russian Foreign Intelligence Service officer Sergei Zhirnov, noting that the so-called “fight” against corruption in the Russian Ministry of Defense will not lead to anything good .

Corruption is a “lubricant”

All this “shake-up” in the Russian Ministry of Defense, when a new minister and his deputies are appointed, changes are taking place throughout the department, will lead to the fact that there will be a complete mess there, and this, according to Zhirnov, is good news for Ukraine.

They will “fight” corruption, but it is a “lubricant” for Russian military machine – if there is no corruption, then nothing will work,” he noted.

While Belousov will “fight” corruption, The Ministry of Defense will freeze for six months. During this time, everything will calm down, they will learn to bring money into new offices, and in the offices they will learn to take bribes.

Broken subordination

At the same time, Major General Ivan Popov was arrested in Russia, who is suspected of “fraud on an especially large scale.”

That's another story , which lasts from 2023. Popov harshly criticized the leadership of the Russian armed forces in much the same way as Yevgeny Prigozhin. Popov was removed from the post of commander of the 58th Army for criticism, noted the former KGB officer.

Popov's actions were insubordination. On the one hand, he commanded the 58th Army in the Zaporozhye region. He is a war criminal, like the rest of the Russian military. At the same time, according to Zhirnov, Popov is a pretty decent military man – from a human point of view. He took care of his subordinates, did not want to throw them into “meat assaults”.

The fact that such good generals are fired and arrested is also good news for Ukraine. Popov, in his place as commander, would have caused the Armed Forces of Ukraine much more problems,” he emphasized.

The fact that he was eliminated is logical from a military point of view hierarchy. Because a general who publicly disagreed with his superiors cannot be retained in his position in the military department. Because of this, he was fired, and now he was arrested.

“However, he was not detained for insubordination, so they came up with a corruption scheme so that ~reason for arrest. At the same time, this case may be real, because everything in the Russian army is based on corruption,” suggested Sergei Zhirnov.

More about arrests in the Russian Ministry of Defense

• Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov was arrested on April 23 – back when the head of the department was Sergei Shoigu. Ivanov was accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of 1 billion rubles.
• Already after the appointment of Andrei Belousov as the new Minister of Defense, officials began to be thrown behind bars one after another. Currently detained: the head of the personnel department in the Ministry of Defense Yuri Kuznetsov, the head of the main communications department and deputy chief of the General Staff of Valery Gerasimova – Vadim Shamarin, the head of the Department of Public Procurement of the Russian Ministry of Defense Vladimir Verteletsky. All of them are suspected of corruption.
• In addition, the commander of the 20th Russian Army, General Suhraba Akhmedova, was fired. The likely reason for his removal was the numerous complaints against him due to the high number of deaths among his subordinates.