It had vanished into thin air after the failed coup attempt Yevgeny Prigozhin. Who asked what happened to him? Sergei Surovikin, Russian general and former deputy commander of the Kremlin’s military operations in Ukraine, had to be content with a half-statement released last June by Andrei Kartapolov, deputy and chairman of the Duma Defense Committee. “Surovikin is currently resting. He is not available at the moment,” Kartapolov said in a video posted on social media. Months after his last public appearance, “General Armageddon” was immortalized in one, alive and well photo together with his wife.
Surovikin’s photo
We do not know with absolute certainty where and when the photo published by the news site Ostorozhno Media was taken. According to media reports, it was a recording that was made in the last few hours Flyalthough it is impossible to confirm the rumor.
What is certain is that the picture shows Surovikin, a Prigozhin sympathizer who was removed from his post as commander of the Aerospace Forces after Wagner’s failed coup Bourgeois, with jeans, hat and black glasses. The general is in the company of one Woman in slippers, probably his wife.
Among the various rumors that emerged were those that Surovikin knew what Prigozhin was planning before the Wagner boss’s coup attempt and that some generals helped Putin’s former cook organize the coup. Let us recall that Surovikin himself praised Prigozhin to the wind and immediately considered him an ally of the mercenary group. And therefore on the verge of ending up in Moscow’s sights.
Going for a walk with his wife
Before the publication of this photo, various analysts believed that Surovikin did this after a long and exhausting interrogation House arrestif not in the infamous one Jail from Lefortovo. Apparently the general is free and in good physical condition.
Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon” by the Russian press for his aggressive tactics in the Syrian conflict, was last seen in public launching an attack Video appeal In it he called for an end to the June 23-24 mutiny by fighters from Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary group while the uprising was still ongoing.
It appears that Surovikin was on good terms with both Wagner and, as mentioned, Prigozhin, with the latter praising the general while regularly hurling insults at the Russian military leadership, particularly Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and the Chief of the General Staff. Valery Gerasimov, for her handling of the war in Ukraine.
“General Sergei Surovikin is alive, healthy, at home with his family in Moscow.” With this caption, journalist Ksenia Sobchak published the first public picture of the Russian general on Telegram.
General Sergei Surovikin has reappeared. Ostorozhno Media publishes pictures of the former aerospace commander together with his wife. The outlet says the picture was taken in Moscow today. Surovikin had not been seen since Prigozhin’s uprising pic.twitter.com/Irr15CLBQO
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