The connection of Surovikin and Yevkurov to PMC Wagner is the basis for suspicion on the part of Moscow, the British Ministry of Defense believes.
The arrest of General Sergei Surovikin is currently impossible to confirm, but the latter’s connection with PMC Wagner is the basis for suspicion on the part of the Russian authorities. About that stated UK intelligence on his Twitter account on Wednesday, July 5.
The intelligence service noted that Surovikin had worked with Wagner since he served in Syria in 2017.
The British Ministry of Defense noted that Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov was also absent from Sergei Shoigu’s speech, which was televised on Tuesday, July 3.
Surovikin and Yevkurov spoke to Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a video made public during an attempted armed conflict in Rostov-on-Don on June 24.
“Although widely known in the West for his ruthless reputation, Surovikin is one of the most respected senior officers in the Russian army; any official sanction against him could be divisive,” the intelligence agency said.
The suspicion that could fall on Russian commanders shows how Prigozhin’s failed coup has deepened existing “fault lines” within Russia’s security system, according to the UK Defense Ministry.
Recall that at the end of June, Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a military coup. Columns of “Wagnerites” moved to Moscow. But after negotiations with the leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, he returned the units to the field camps.
The media reported that the Kremlin promised to “resolve the issue” related to Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov. Subsequently, on June 26, Shoigu was presented for the first time in the Russian Federation after Prigozhin’s rebellion.
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