Kremlin: Shoigu Has “Many Worries”, Now “Not the Time for Media Appearances”

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov commented on media reports about the "disappearance" of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. According to a Kremlin spokesman, now is not the time for the media activity of the head of the Defense Ministry. "The Minister of Defense now has a lot of worries, as you understand. A special military operation is underway," Interfax quoted him as saying. Peskov also denied reports of Shoigu's health problems. Earlier, the media noted that the Russian defense minister has not appeared in public for the second week, he has not been seen since March 11. Then Shoigu took part in a meeting of the president with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Journalists also noticed that since that day the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has not appeared in public.

Source: RBC

Machine translated from Russian.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov answered a question about the absence of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in public space, saying that now is “not quite the time for media activity,” RBC correspondent reports.

“The Minister of Defense now has a lot of worries, as you understand. There is a special military operation. Of course, now is not exactly the time for media activity. This is quite understandable,” Peskov commented on the messages.

Peskov also denied reports of Shoigu’s health problems.

Earlier, the media noted that the Russian defense minister has not appeared in public for the second week, he has not been seen since March 11. Then Shoigu took part in a meeting of the president with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Journalists also noticed that since that day the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has not appeared in public.


Editor’s note: Okay, now is not the time for media appearances. He has a lot of worries. There is a war going on.

But until two weeks ago he was making regular appearances. He didn’t have worries, and a war to run back then? What changed?

Is he busy planning an Operatsiya Uran that fixes some of Russian mistakes in the war so far? Russia better hope so.

5 Comments
  1. guest says

    May 8 is not that far. The holiest day in the Mother Russia religion has to be celebrated with especial ceremony this year. It wouldn’t look good if Mariupol, Harkov, Odessa, Kiev were still disputed zones on May 8. There should be at least one victory march on that day in Ukraine, too.

    Who is this typical Pan-Slav Russian Mr. Shoigu, and how did he become generalissimo ? A life-time government employee who survived every kind of regime change in the Kremlin in the past 30 years ?

    1. Ilya G Poimandres says

      They won’t be, and Shoigu is also a Buddhist from Tuva on one side, and Ukranian by blood on the other.

      Russia = civilisation.
      Rus = ethnic tribe.

      This needs to be understood by westerners.

      1. guest says

        >>> “Russia = civilisation”
        This sounds like the “manifest destiny” invented by Rush Limbaugh.

        For the sake of this “Russia civilisation” we now kill or chase away the Rus from Kiev, and replace them with new-Rus and a mythos about a Mother Russia (the ruling class in Moscow & Petrograd).

        Didn’t Tsar Katherine, Tsar Alexander, Dictator Stalin subscribe to the Mother Russia mythos ? —a lot of good it did for those Rus tribes

        ________________
        “Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters!”
        “The enemy is out to destroy national culture and the national state existence of the Russians, Ukrainians, White-Russians, Lithuanians, Letts, Esthonians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Moldavians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaidzhanians and the other free people of the Soviet Union, to convert them into the slaves”

  2. Ultrafart the Brave says

    Editor’s note: Okay, now is not the time for media appearances. He has a lot of worries. There is a war going on.

    But until two weeks ago he was making regular appearances. He didn’t have worries, and a war to run back then? What changed?

    Is he busy planning an Operatsiya Uran that fixes some of Russian mistakes in the war so far? Russia better hope so.

    What changed? Something.

    IMO it’s cause for concern for anyone who should be concerned. Russia’s all-too-eager adversaries probably shouldn’t get too comfortable.

  3. William White says

    You don’t know what it is like to be old until you are old. Sometimes you just feel like crap for a while then you snap back and go on. Or maybe you don’t and you die. This Man is no shrinking Violet, my money’s on him to rise again and at least finish this mission, we’ll see, I wish him well!

Reply To William White
Cancel Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Anti-Empire