Recent events in Russia suggest that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may be seeking to reduce the power of Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, possibly to punish him for failing to achieve the military goals of the Kremlin, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Analysts at the Institute point to Putin’s meeting on May 2 with the governor of the Tula region, Alexei Dyumin, who has repeatedly sided with the owner of the private military company Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in 2022 and 2023, seeking to promote dismissals within the Russian Ministry of Defense. Dyumin assu…