President Vladimir Putin fired on Thursday to the head of the land forces of Russia, General Oleg Slayukov, said the Kremlin, in the last elimination of a high -profile military establishment appears in the war in Ucrine.
Slyukov, 70, will become a deputy of former Defense Minister Sergei Shouigu, who was eliminated last year and was secretary of the Security Council. The measure was announced in a Kremlin decree.
Less than a week ago, Slyukov was executing the great military parade of Victory Day in the Red Square with the current Defense Minister Andrei Belosov, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
The Russian police have accused more than a military officials and the defense sector since last year, many of which were accused of diverting money from the main projects to obtain personal profits.
Shoigu, an ally of Putin for a long time, was degraded last year after occupying several higher positions since the early 1990s.
The Kremlin has denied that the trial and the sackings in the high brass of Russia were a purge of the military establishment after the setbacks in Ukraine.
Slyukov had been in charge of the land forces of Russia since 2014, supervising participation in the Syrian civil war and the war in Ucrine. He was deputy director of the general personnel for four years before that.
Russia, who supposedly planned to take Ukraine, a country with a much narrower army, in three days, has been caught in a three -year bloody and ground conflict that has left thousands of thousands.
Ukraine and Russia will hold their first direct peace conversations in more than three years in Istanbul on Thursday or Friday.
