2023-08-23 07:52:00
Russia has appointed a new interim air force chief to replace General Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen since the June mutiny by Wagner’s mercenaries, state news agency RIA reported on Wednesday. .
During the revolt, which took place from June 23 to 24, Sergei Surovikin appeared in a video, uneasy and with no insignia on his uniform, in which he urged the leader of Wagner’s mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin , to put an end to his rebellion once morest the commanders of the Russian army.
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Since the mutiny, which ended with negotiations and an agreement, Russian and foreign media outlets have claimed that Surovikin was under investigation for possible complicity with Wagner and that he was under house arrest.
“The former head of the Russian air and space forces, Sergei Surovikin, has been relieved of his duties, while Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov, chief of the Main Staff of the Air Force, assures provisionally the functions of commander-in-chief of the air force,” an anonymous source told RIA.
Nicknamed “General Armageddon” for his methods during the Russian military intervention in Syria in the mid-2010s, Sergei Surovikin was appointed last October in charge of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine.
But this role was withdrawn from him in January in favor of General Valéri Guérassimov, chief of staff of the Russian army, of which Surovikin became the deputy.
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