Documents obtained by the Russian think tank Dossier Center show that Sergei Surovikin is on Wagner’s list of VIP members. The Russian general has not been seen in public since Saturday.
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Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who reportedly had prior knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plans to rebel against Russian military leadership, was, according to documents shared with CNN, a secret “VIP” member of the Wagner group.
Who is Sergei Surovikin, the “Armageddon General” who is said to have known of Prigozhin’s plans for rebellion?
The documents, obtained by Russia’s Dossier Center, show that Surovikin had a personal number registered in the mercenary group.. The “VIP” list of members consists of more than 29 Russian servicemen.
Sergei Surovikin has not been seen in public since Saturday, when a video was posted calling on Prigozhin to end the rebellion. On Wednesday, reports began to emerge that the general will have been arrested by Russian authorities, and sources close to the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed his arrest to the Moscow Times newspaper: “He apparently chose to side with Prigozhin during the rebellion and the authorities caught him.”
The Russian general Surovikin, who knew about the rebellion plan, disappeared
On Thursday, Veronika, the general’s daughter, advanced in an interview with Baza that nothing had happened to her father, that He is not in prison and that “everyone is at work”.
“General Armageddon” Sergei Surovikin is fine and “at work,” says his daughter
According to The New York Times, the general had prior knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny over the weekend, but US authorities are still trying to find out if he helped plan the Wagner group leader’s actions.
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Source: Observadora
