Sergei Surovikin, a senior Russian general who may have had advanced plans of Wagner's rebellion over the weekend, is believed to have been arrested.
appointed Surovikin to lead Russia’s invasion of Ukraine back in October.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday. The general first gained notoriety in 1991 for ordering Russian soldiers to fire on protesting civilians in Moscow in the final months of the Soviet Union. He displayed similar brutality when Putin deployed him to Syria in 2017, allegedly ordering the indiscriminate bombings of Aleppo and other anti-government strongholds.Surovikin has also been accused of complicity in the use of chemical weapons in Syria."He was born to serve his motherland faithfully.
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