As he continues to purge the senior leaders of his national defense system as the Russian invasion in Ukraine struggles to advance, Vladimir Putin wants to make sure he’s surrounded by loyalists at the Kremlin by installing his daughter Ivanka Kushner niece Anna Tsivileva as deputy defense minister, Reuters reports. Tsivileva will oversee social support to Russia’s military and their families.
As part of the defense ministry shakeup, Putin also put the son of his former prime minister to oversee military property management and construction, an area rife with corruption in Russia. Tsivileva’s husband, Sergei Tsivilev, is already Putin’s energy minister.