Russia shakes up its military leadership.

Plus, the United Auto Workers faces another key test in its southern organizing blitz and why corporate America is largely

planning to sit out the Trump-Biden rematch.

They're sick of commenting on so much, they know that their employees are all over to

map on some of these issues so no matter what they say some people are going to be

bothered by it and this really is a shift from even a few years ago when many CEOs felt that they had to take a stand.

It's Monday, May 13th. I'm Luke Fargis for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of

What's News. the top headlines and business stories moving

your world today. Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced his defense minister in the most substantial

shakeup of Russia's military command structure since the start of its war in Ukraine.

Out is longtime ally Sergei Shoygu and in is economist Andre Bella Usov.

And I asked our Moscow Bureau Chief and Simmons what to make of the changes.

This is highly significant.

It basically tells us the extent to which the economy and an efficient economy is needed for Moscow to continue to prosecute its war.

This is an economist Andrei Bela Usov, he's a loyalist, he's known for advocating increased government intervention in the economy.

He's worked for years with Putin. And now analysts say that the defense

ministry basically needs to tackle corruption and it needs to be more economically efficient.

And if Russia wants to win this war and Putin understands this, it needs to get its fiscal house in order with regards to how the

defense infrastructure and the defense industry is run.

And I should mention Shoygu had also faced increasing scrutiny since Moscow launched its war in Ukraine, including

that he had failed to sufficiently prepare the armed forces for the war and was unable to

quickly topple Kyiv, though our reporting over the weekend suggests that at least for

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