2023-06-29 08:05:45
The Moscow Times: The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that the deputy commander of the Joint Group of Russian Forces in Ukraine, General Sergey Surovikin, has been arrested on charges of high treason for his involvement with the Wagner Group.
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Posted on: June 29, 2023: 08:59 AM GST Last updated: June 29, 2023: 12:05 PM GST
Sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the arrest of the deputy commander of the joint group of Russian forces in Ukraine. General Sergei SurovikinHe was charged with high treason for his involvement with the Wagner Group, according to the Russian newspaper, The Moscow Times, but his assistant denied the reports.
The New York Times revealed, in a report published on Tuesday, that Surovikin had prior knowledge of Wagner’s commander, Yevgeny Prigozhin,’s plans for the rebellion. The newspaper quoted three US officials as saying that the Russian general was sympathetic to the Wagner rebellion, but it is not clear if he participated in supporting it in any way.
This comes as the Russian Lieutenant General Andrei Yudin, assistant to General Sergey Surovkin, denied all the news related to their arrest in Lefortovo prison, east of the capital, Moscow, adding that he is now spending his annual leave at his home in Moscow, according to an interview he had with the Russian “Ura” agency and was reported by many media. local media.
The military correspondent, Vladimir Romanov, had published on his channel in “Telegram”, news of Surovikin’s arrest on the twenty-fifth of this month during the Wagner Group’s rebellion, followed by information about Yudin’s arrest as well.
And US officials, who were briefed on the intelligence information about the issue of the military rebellion in Russia, suggested that General Surovikin, the former supreme Russian commander for operations in Ukraine, had prior knowledge of Prigozhin’s plans to rebel against the military leadership, which raised questions about the support enjoyed by the leader of those mercenaries. among the ranks of the higher ranks.
Sergey Surovikin held sensitive and high-ranking positions between 2005 and 2008, when he held the position of Chief Operations Director of the Russian Armed Forces. In 2013 he was appointed commander of the Eastern Military District, and in 2014 the first participation in the war against Ukraine was the dispatch of tanks from the Rostov region.
Between March and December 2017, he was appointed commander of the Russian Forces Group in Syria. And in February 2023 he led the encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the cities of Gorskoye and Zolotye in Luhansk.
He was appointed at the head of the Russian forces in Ukraine, and the task was then transferred to the Chief of Staff.
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