The mercenary boss is gone and Surovikin has disappeared. Is everything quiet again? On the contrary. Now a general comes out.
Vienna/Moscow. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary chief, may be gone, but criticism of Russia’s conduct of the war has not ceased. Two and a half weeks after the mutiny attempt, Ivan Popov, a respected general, dared to criticize: his audio message, if authentic, is a harsh reckoning with the costly Russian war and is similar in content to Prigozhin’s earlier tirades. about anger.
“The Ukrainian army has not been able to break through our ranks,” Popov said at one point. “But our military leadership treacherously stabbed us in the back and decapitated the army at its most intense and difficult moment.” artillery.
“I await my fate”
Popov claims he was fired after raising internal criticism. The 48-year-old, whose badge reads only “Spartacus”, also explains that he could have been “cowardly” but that he did not want to remain silent in front of the many fallen comrades. Popow indicates that it might now be dangerous for him: “I await my fate.”