All news on the topic: Sergei Shoigu

Holding a diplomatic passport offers notable perks — even for those who aren’t career diplomats.

Since the start of 2024, a total of 3,344 foreign nationals who went to fight in Ukraine have received Russian citizenship, according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Businessman Adolfas Kaminskas, who is married to the mother of former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s illegitimate children, has invested over $4 million in Dubai real estate, according to an investigation by the Lithuanian Center for Investigative Journalism Siena.

Under new defence minister Andrei Belousov, FSB is tackling corruption aggressively with serious implications for Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has raised eyebrows after suddenly firing his longtime friend, Sergei Shoigu, as defence minister.

A Russian deputy defense minister has been charged with taking a bribe, in the country’s highest-profile corruption scandal since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.

Tyrannical Russian President Vladimir Putin is hellbent on demonstrating his nuclear powers to enemies in the West and plans to do so by putting the world-ending Satan-2 missile on "combat duty" next month

State television showed Vladimir Putin directing the exercise via video call with top military officials as Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said the purpose of the drills was " in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy"

Kim Jong-un could be after Russian intelligence regarding nuclear warfare, with a meeting between the North Korean head and Russian leader Vladimir Putin meaning crisis is on the cards

Footage has emerged of Yevgeny Prigozhin saying "if these screws are not adjusted today, then the whole plane will fall apart in the sky" months before he died in an aircraft crash in Russia

The Wagner boss and former ally of Vladimir Putin staged an armed revolt against the Kremlin regime back in June, but was later forced to abandon his plotted coup and go into hiding

US CIA Chief William Burns says that moving Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin to Belarus was a part of a 'complicated dance' and that the Russian leader was simply 'buying' time before he works out his revenge plan

It is alleged that General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin is being held at the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre over a plot to oust defence minister Sergei Shoigu

As the Wagner Group nearly attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin at the weekend, Mirror Defence Editor Chris Hughes looks at the warlord's fears of meeting a violent end

Sergei Shoigu, Vladimir Putin's defence minister has been filmed in the war zone flying over military positions and talking with his commanders as he faces down attempt to oust him

Wagner group chef Yevgeny Prigozhin sparked panic in the halls of the Kremlin on Saturday when he announced that he was marching 25,000 of his elite and murderous mercenaries on to Moscow to topple Russia's military leadership

The 62-year-old looked unphased at the failure of his armed march on Moscow yesterday as he returned to the Wagner base of operations at Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia

Dmitry Muratov's claim came as the head of Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin alleged Vladimir Putin is being told "monstrous" lies by his military chiefs over Russia's "colossal problems" in its resistance to Ukraine’s counteroffensive

Russia sent out Vladimir Putin’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu to deny the Ukrainian claim that it had downed six Kinzhal - or Dagger - missiles as it tried to see off the invading forces

Belarusian tyrant Alexander Lukashenko, who has refused to give up power for 24 years, couldn't walk more than a mile at yesterday's Victory Day parade and skipped a breakfast with ally Putin

Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said that strategic missile carriers will fly to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to imitate strikes on ship groups of a mock enemy

Russia's Pacific Fleet will have to repel massive missile and air strikes during the drills as well as performing torpedo and artillery firing and launching missiles

The Russian pair Sergey Popov and Vasily Vavilov, both air force majors, were handed state awards by Vladimir Putin ’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu

Russian officials have accused the UK of 'genocide' because of the supply of depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine. The UK said the shells are a 'standard component and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons or capabilities'

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads up the shadowy Wagner militia, has warned the Kremlin Defence Ministry that Russia could lose all military gains made in the frontline Ukrainian town of Bakhmut unless he acts quickly