Vladimir Putin put Sergei Shoigu in charge of an invasion in 2022 with orders to capture Kyiv within in a matter of days.
Two years on, Russia’s president has ousted his defence minister to achieve an altogether different mission in Ukraine: making Russia’s creaking war machine go on for as long as it takes.
The surprise Kremlin shake-up this weekend, which elevated an economic technocrat to lead the war effort, indicates Putin has bet on the power of Russia’s military-industrial complex to outlast Ukraine and its western backers.
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