It is Sergei Shoigu who may be the main organizer of the liquidation of the mercenary Wagner Group, and not Vladimir Putin — specified a thesis is put by American analysts, who are cited by the Institute for War Studies. It is hard to imagine that Shoigu could have done this without Putin's consent, but in fact it was the head of the Russian defence ministry who was the main political opponent of the slain Prigozhyn.
