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| Data on General Sergei Surovikin disappeared from the website of the Ministry of Defense |
| 2023-09-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. A recent photo appeared on Russian socialist media, purportedly of Surovikin, unshaven and in civilian clothes walking arm in arm with his wife, so he ain't dead. [Regnum] Data about General Sergei Surovikin was removed from the website of the Ministry of Defense from the section "Commanders in Chief of Armed Forces" . In the section "Commanders in Chief of Armed Forces" there was a photo of the general and the position - commander in chief of the airborne forces. As reported by IA Regnum , on September 5, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing that he would not give any comments about Surovikin. Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin appointed Surovikin as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces in November 2017. On October 8, 2022, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Surovikin as commander of a group of troops in the NVO zone. On August 23, 2023, information appeared that Surovikin was relieved of this post and the head of the General Staff of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov , became Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces . |
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