CNN said it had obtained exclusive documents indicating that Russian General Sergei Surovikin was a secret member and senior figure in the Wagner private military company.
The documents showed, according to CNN, that the deputy commander of Russian military operations in Ukraine, Sorovikin, nicknamed “Armageddon”, has a personal registration number with Wagner, adding that Sorovikin was listed, along with at least 30 senior Russian military and intelligence officials, as important members of the group. Wagner.
Mystery still surrounds Surovikin’s fate as the Kremlin has refused to answer related questions.
The status or location of the Russian general has not been announced, since a military mutiny by Russia’s private military group, Wagner, was thwarted.
Surovikin has been out of the public eye since Saturday, when he appeared in a video clip pleading with Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, to end the rebellion.
He looked exhausted in that section. Unconfirmed reports were received at the time that the security services were investigating him.
The New York Times published a report, in which it quoted US officials as saying that General Sergei Surovikin had prior knowledge of the rebellion before it took place at the weekend.
On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred questions about Surovikin to the Defense Ministry, which has not yet issued a statement on it.
When asked by reporters if the Kremlin could clarify Surovikin’s situation, Beksov said: “No, unfortunately not.”
He added, “Therefore, I recommend you to communicate with the Ministry of Defense, this is its competence.”
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2023-06-30 02:45:07
