According to Kiev, Shoigu was supposed to have a heart attack. Moscow refuted rumors of his hospitalization with a video from the meeting – HNonline.sk

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is not appearing in public because he has suffered a heart attack. This was stated by an adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior Anton Herashchenko on Facebook. He added that Shoigu had a heart attack after Russian President Vladimir Putin harshly criticized him for the fiasco of invading Ukraine. According to him, Shoigu is now undergoing rehabilitation at a military hospital. However, according to information published on his office on Facebook, the Russian minister appeared at the meeting this morning. Speculation about his condition Shoigu has not been seen in public since March 11. On Thursday, footage appeared in the Russian media in which Shoigu was seen on a screen used by Putin in a virtual meeting of the Russian Security Council. However, there is speculation that an older record was used by the ministers. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained Shoigu’s media absence this week by saying that the defense minister has a lot of work to do. “The Minister of Defense now has many worries. A special military operation is underway. This is not the time for media activity,” he said. “This morning he was at a meeting” The Russian Defense Ministry, in an apparent response to Herashchenko’s nightly information about Shogu’s heart attack, published a report on Facebook that the minister attended a morning meeting at his office. The information is supplemented by a video documenting a meeting with a number of top Russian military officials, including Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov, who has also not been seen in public recently. He informs Shogu that he discussed with the Ministry of Finance about the military budget and the implementation of defense orders. He talks about continuing arms and equipment deliveries in advance, with “long-range high-precision weapons, aircraft equipment and maintaining the alert of strategic nuclear forces” as priorities.