He has had great trust in the Russian military, including as a former leader of the war in Ukraine. Now the general Sergei Surovikin has been arrested in Russia, several sources tell the independent Russian newspaper Moscow Times. The persons must be closely linked to the Russian Ministry of Defence, according to the newspaper. The New York Times has spoken to sources who believe the general knew about the rebel plans of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. “General Armageddon” The 56-year-old general became commander-in-chief of all Russian forces in Ukraine in October 2022. In January this year, he was appointed head of Russia’s space defence. Dubbed “General Armageddon” by the Russian media, he is known to be a brutal warrior. Surovikin has known Prigozhin for a long time, since the Syrian war. Both the Russian regular army and the Wagner group were stationed there. When Surovikin was appointed commander of the forces in Ukraine, Prigozhin referred to him as “the most competent commander in the Russian army”. Russia: “Speculations” After the New York Times case was published that Surovikin should have known about the plans for rebellion, Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov replied: – There will be a lot of speculation, and gossip, and so on, around such events. I think this is an example of this.
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