Russian President Vladimir Putin's appointment of a new defense minister, Andrey Belousov, is seen as an attempt to streamline Russia's economy and mobilize it for the war effort. Russia's military has faced numerous supply and logistics problems that thwarted its all-out war against Ukraine from the get-go. Two years later,

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s appointment of a new defense minister, Andrey Belousov, is seen as an attempt to streamline Russia’s economy and mobilize it for the war effort.

Russia’s military has faced numerous supply and logistics problems that thwarted its all-out war against Ukraine from the get-go. Two years later, the problems of poor logistics and lack of strategic planning persist.

The apparent task of Belousov, an outsider with no links to the military, is to solve these problems and make Russia’s war machine in Ukraine more effective, a dangerous new development.

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Russian columnist Sergei Parkhomenko called Belousov the “prime minister of a military government.”

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