Missing top general
Report: Surovikin was a VIP member of Wagner
06/30/2023, 8:59 p.m
For six days there has been no trace of the Russian General Surovikin. One report suggests he knew in advance of the Wagner uprising and fell out of favor with Russian President Putin. A possible VIP membership in the private army speaks for this.
The Russian general Sergei Surovikin may have been more closely associated with the Wagner mercenary force than previously known. CNN reports that the top military man was a secret VIP member of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army. This should prove documents that according to CNN dated Dossier Center were procured. The Russian exile medium is financed by the former oligarch and current opposition member Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
According to this, Surovikin has been a VIP member of the mercenary force since 2018. At that time he was assigned the corresponding Wagner registration number. The general is the deputy commander of the Russian military operation in Ukraine and is also known as “General Armageddon” because of his martial actions in the Syrian war.
According to CNN, in addition to Surovikin, at least 30 high-ranking military and Russian intelligence officials are VIP members of Wagner. Her identity is not publicly known. They are said not to have received any money for their membership. According to CNN, the mercenary group did not answer any questions.
Where is “General Armageddon”?
Surovikin was last seen in public last Saturday. On the day of the Wagner uprising, a video was released in which the general appealed to mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to end the mutiny against Russian military leaders in Moscow.
The “New York Times” then reported that Surovikin had been informed in advance about Wagner’s plans. There are also indications that other Russian generals may have supported Prigozhin. The war bloggers of the well-known Russian military blog Rybar recently reported on a “massive wave of purges in the ranks of the Russian armed forces”. Accordingly, Surovikin was interrogated by the Russian domestic secret service FSB. According to unconfirmed reports, he is currently being held in the Lefortovo detention center in Moscow. The Kremlin is silent on its fate.