General Sergei Surovikin and his relatives have reportedly been advised to stay under the radar so that he is 'forgotten.'
"Ex-chief of the Russian Air and Space Forces Sergei Surovikin has now been relieved of his post, while Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov, head of the Main Staff of the Air Force, is temporarily acting as commander-in-chief of the Air Force," Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported Wednesday, citing an unnamed source., a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia, which cited three unnamed sources.
Questions have been raised about his whereabouts, with many suggesting that he'd been fired or arrested, particularly after he was notably missing from a July 10 meeting of military officials. A senior Russian politician said last month that Surovikin was"resting." But on August 13, the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which has close ties to Russian security forces, cited several sources as saying that Surovikin is now in an apartment"under a kind of house arrest," and that while there is no official investigation into the general, he spent a long time in limbo, answering"uncomfortable questions."Read more
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