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Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu attends a meeting on development of Russia's military industrial complex at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
FILE - This photo taken and released by Basmanny District Court press service on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, shows Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov standing in a defendants' cage in court in Moscow, Russia. Ivanov was arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe. (Basmanny District Court press service via AP, File)
Newly appointed Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrives to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with commanders of military districts at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, leave Red Square after the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 9, 2024, marking the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
FILE - This photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, shows Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the military general staff, posing for an official photo in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Shamarin was arrested on bribery charges. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP, File)
FILE - In this undated photo distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov is seen during a military parade in Krasnodar, Russia. Kuznetsov was arrested on bribery charges. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on June 8, 2023, Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov, the commander of the 58th Army, is seen in a photo at an undisclosed location. Popov was arrested on bribery charges. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
This photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, May 24, 2024, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, left, and Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin, second right, attend talks in Minsk, Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)