MOSCOW — Russia has appointed a new acting head of its aerospace forces to replace Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed 'General Armageddon', who vanished from view after a Wagner mercenary mutiny against the top brass, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday (Aug 23). During the June 23-24 revolt, Surovikin, who once commanded Russia's overall war effort in Ukraine, appeared in...
MOSCOW — Russia has appointed a new acting head of its aerospace forces to replace Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon", who vanished from view after a Wagner mercenary mutiny against the top brass, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday .
Since the mutiny, which was ended by negotiations and a deal, some Russian and foreign news outlets have said that Surovikin, who was often publicly praised by Prigozhin in the run-up to the revolt, was being investigated for possible complicity in it and being held under house arrest. Russian news outlet RBC and Rybar, a Telegram channel close to the Ministry of Defence, on Tuesday reported that Surovikin had been removed from his position as the head of Russia's air force.
He was placed in charge of Russian military operations in Ukraine last October, but in January that role was handed to General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, and Surovikin was made a deputy to Gerasimov.
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