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showed that the Kremlin seeks to use his appointment to boost support from military commentators.Belousov, who replaced longtime Defense
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economist and former first deputy prime minister who has no prior military experience, offered a clean slate compared to Shoigu, who faced
criticism from pro-war bloggers for a series of failures in the war and was the target of the 2023 Wagner Group mutiny.Both the Kremlin and
