Ukraine conflict: Who's in Putin's inner circle and running the war?

Russia's president relies on a small but deeply loyal group of people when he makes key decisions.

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Viktor Zolotov: "A former bodyguard of the president, he now runs Russia's national guard, Rosgvardia, ... as a kind of personal army in the style of a Roman empire-like praetorian guard." "The problem is that the national guard's leader has no military training,"

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例の叱責の件　>>"Putin loves playing games with his inner circle, making him [Naryshkin] look a fool."