Changes in positions within the office of Defense Minister A. Belousov. November 6, 2026
Forecast: “Acute events beginning in the fall of 2026. Their details and significance” (published October 18, 2026, link)
S. Dragan:
For example, as I have written more than once in my forecasts, a significant reshuffle at the highest levels of power in Russia is coming. And we will surely see it in the very near future. In this context, one may assume changes in positions, for example, for A. Belousov and not only for him (around November 6, 2026)…
Forecast: “The future of the main players. The near and somewhat more distant horizons” (published July 14, 2026, link)
S. Dragan:
…Essentially, the August 2026 solar eclipse creates a particular military challenge for Russia. This challenge will be directed above all at the key players in Russia’s political power. It resembles the rupture of the most powerful knot of power, including the most important spheres of governance, including the military and ideological ones, as well as central figures.
This means that a change of ideas, a change in military status, and power is coming… at the very highest level. This means that the process has begun. After all, the eclipse itself occurs on the star Merak: a star of power and readiness to be able to exercise it. Thus, the challenge of the eclipse for Russia will be to ask: what about power? Thus, the question of governing the country will become the most important one…
The confirmation of October 21, 2026 indicated that “…October 2026 became a month of more manifest changes at the governmental level in Russia.” And such changes began.
However, as S. Dragan forecast, this process was not limited to October. At the end of autumn, “…a significant reshuffle is observed at the highest levels of power in Russia. …In this context, there was a change in positions within A. Belousov’s office (around November 6, 2026)…”
On November 6, 2026, the positions of chief of logistics and chief of armaments were officially approved in the structure of the Ministry of Defense. The corresponding presidential decree was posted on the official portal for the publication of legal acts.
According to the new version of the decree, the military department is authorized to have 12 deputy ministers, including two first deputy ministers, a state secretary, the chiefs of armaments and logistics, the head of the Main Military-Political Directorate, and the head of the Ministry of Defense staff. The total number of deputies has not changed.
The positions of chiefs of armaments and logistics at the rank of deputy minister existed in the structure of the military department until 2010.
The changes began as early as August 2026, as forecast back in July 2026: “…Essentially, the August 2026 solar eclipse created a particular military challenge for Russia. This challenge was directed above all … at the key players in Russia’s political power. It resembled the rupture of the most powerful knot of power, including the most important spheres of governance, including the military and ideological ones, as well as central figures…”
It was precisely in August 2026 that the return of these positions followed a redistribution of responsibilities among the leadership of the military department.
On August 5, 2026, V. Putin announced the decision to consolidate all logistics services under unified leadership and appointed Deputy Minister Valery Solodchuk to this area.
The Russian leader noted that the decision to concentrate logistics services “in one pair of hands” was made at the proposal of Defense Minister Andrei Belousov.
On the same day, the president recalled that armaments functions, including the work of procurement and supply bodies, had already been concentrated in one pair of hands. This work was headed by Alexander Sanchik as deputy minister.
On August 5, 2026, V. Putin also appointed Denis Lyamin, chief of staff of the “Center” troop grouping, commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The troop grouping itself will be headed by Andrei Ivanaev, who replaced Solodchuk in the post. In addition, Pyotr Bolgarev will become commander of the “East” troop grouping, replacing Ivanaev. Putin also emphasized that the improvement of the Russian Ministry of Defense is continuing.
Following the August reshuffle, General V. Solodchuk became responsible for organizing logistical support for the troops, General A. Sanchik for organizing orders for armaments, military and special equipment, as well as technical support for the troops. Another deputy minister, Alexei Krivoruchko, was assigned the development of promising models of armaments and equipment.
The August and October “changes at the governmental level in Russia” continued with the strengthening of “positions within A. Belousov’s office (around November 6, 2026)…”
S. Dragan forecasts: “And here it must be understood that this (significant reshuffle at the highest levels of power in Russia) will become a very serious marker of upcoming changes at an even more serious level in the near future.”
To be continued…
