2023-11-19 09:11:23
A Russian general and his wife have been found dead. He headed the Russian Air Force and expressed criticism of the quality of training.
Another high-ranking member of the military has been found dead in Russia. As the Kyiv Post reports, Vladimir Sviridov, 68, and his wife Tatyana, 72, were discovered in their bedroom on Wednesday. Both have been dead for a week. The circumstances of their deaths are still unclear. However, there was no violence.
Sviridov headed the Russian Air Force and Air Defense Department from 2005 to 2009, according to the Kyiv Post. He repeatedly criticized the length of the training. According to the Ukrainian media, he said: “A pilot needs 100 hours of flight practice a year to be able to be used in combat. This is no longer the case. The average practice time is 25 to 30 hours.” In another interview he is said to have said that the army lacked well-trained officers and that therefore worse ones were being deployed.
Putin’s critics have been dying for years
Neither the Kremlin nor Russian media have yet commented on his death. Russian Major General Vladimir Popov described the death as “absurd.” “When I found out about his death, my heart hurt,” he told News.ru. It is a shame “that people of such rank, who deserve attention and respect, die in this way.”
Putin’s critics have been dying for years under mysterious and sometimes unclear circumstances. Sudden deaths have been increasing since Russia attacked Ukraine.
In September, a Russian energy executive, Ivan Pechorin, fell from his boat and died. The businessman close to Putin was responsible for developing new resources in Asia and the Arctic. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, died in a plane crash after his protest march on Moscow.
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