Russian oligarch Leonid Nyuzlin said that Sergei Shoigu “was out of the game.” Citing “his sources in Moscow,” he wrote that the Russian defense minister suffered a severe heart attack and is currently in intensive care. He calculated that his alleged health problems were not due to natural causes.
Leonid Nevzlin shared the news, which, according to him, he received from his “sources in Moscow.”
According to the oligarch, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu “dropped out of the game” because he suffered a massive heart attack and was in intensive care. “He may become disabled if he survives,” he wrote on Facebook. “There are rumors that the heart attack could not have occurred from natural causes,” he added.
Sergei Shoigu. Previous reports
This is another unofficial information of this kind that has recently appeared in the media. Shoigu disappeared from public space and appeared regularly on Russian television before the invasion of Ukraine.
A few days ago, Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko said that Shoigu – after a heart attack – “is undergoing rehabilitation at the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N.N. Burdenko.”
At the end of March, a video appeared on the Web in which the Kremlin wanted to stop rumors about the poor health of its minister. However, the effect of the publication was just the opposite. It shows strange violations that have been found by Internet users. They must confirm that this is another Russian hoax.
Sergei Shoigu was Putin’s right-hand man for ten years.
Multiple arrests
In his entry, Leonid Nevzlin also indicated that 20 generals were detained in Russia, who spent money on training the political leadership in Ukraine and the enthusiastic attitude of the population after the introduction of the Russian army. “Since 2014, about 10 billion dollars allocated by Putin for the preparation of the blitzkrieg have been stolen,” the oligarch wrote.
For the same reasons, as we read in Nizlin’s article, Vladislav Surkov, a former adviser to Vladimir Putin who was once in charge of Ukraine policy in the Kremlin, is under house arrest.
History of disputes with Putin
Leonid Nevzlin is one of the oligarchs who fled Russia for Israel in the early 21st century. Probably, his decision was influenced by the fact that he had previously criticized the decisions of Vladimir Putin, who has held the presidency since 2000.
In the past, he was also a close business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once considered the richest Russian. However, Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 and spent almost ten years in prison on charges of major fraud and tax evasion. Many commentators view his trial as a show that Putin wanted to scare his opponents and prove that even oligarchs can be broken very quickly. The Human Rights Center of the Memorial Association has included him in the list of political prisoners in Russia.
In 2013, Putin pardoned Khodorkovsky. Then the former oligarch was forced to leave the country and now lives in London, where he heads the non-governmental organization Open Russia. Its purpose is to promote democratic values.