All news on the topic: Sergei Shoigu

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.

Vladimir Putin named Anna Tsivileva as deputy defence minister as the war against Ukraine rages on, weeks after Sergei Shoigu was dismissed by the Russian leader

Enough food and supplies to feed hundreds of people for "several years" are reportedly being urgently shipped to Russian President Vladimir Putin's palace in the Altai Mountains

Lt-Gen Yuri Kuznetsov, 55, a high-ranking official in the Russian military has been arrested after being dragged from his bed at 5am in what is being seen as the latest of Vladimir Putin's purges

The shake up among the top brass of Russia's government comes as the brutal war in Ukraine grinds on with a new wave of US arms arriving at the front to help beleaguered defenders

Vladimir Putin has chosen to name an economist as his new Russian defense minsiter. Andrei Belousov will take over from Sergei Shoigu, one of the key architects of the war in Ukraine

Claims from Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu that the country's army killed 300 Ukrainian soldiers with a vacuum bomb have been labelled 'absolute nonsense' by Ukrainian officials

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

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

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

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

Popular fitness influencer Alexey Stolyarov is going out with the daughter of loyalist defence minister Sergei Shoigu, Ksenia Shoigu and the boss of the Wagner private army is demanding he be conscripted

Russia President Vladimir Putin is testing his hypersonic Satan-2 apocalypse missile and officials in remote districts have been warned to be ready for a test launch between February 15 and 25

Vladimir Putin's demand for his top war commander General Valery Gerasimov to unleash 'an assault in several directions at once' has sparked deep divisions among members of his military high command