Russia has found a new position for Sergei Surovkin, nicknamed “General Armageddon”, after the Russian Ministry of Defense removed his biographical page from the official website of the Russian army, People’s Deputy Viktor Zavarzin said, as quoted by Lenta.

He, a member of the State Duma’s defense committee and himself a former general in the Russian army, said Surovikin now has another position, a “pretty good one,” in the Commonwealth of Independent States, an organization that unites many former satellite states. Moscow.

“But let’s wait and see, this is not the most important thing. The man was in the war, now he is resting, probably he will be on vacation for some time. Let’s see what happens,” Zavarzin said, adding that the situation of the former commander of the forces invading Ukraine is not at all “terrible.”

His comments came after investigative journalists recently discovered that a page with biographies of the so-called “Armageddon general” had been removed from the official website of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Zavarzin’s comments are, to put it mildly, strange, given that the CIS is not a military organization.

Earlier this week, Ostorogno Media published a photo of the Russian general with his wife, noting that the photo was taken in Moscow on Monday. Before that, he had not appeared in public since June 24, the day of the uprising of Wagner’s mercenaries.

Vladimir Putin fired General Surovikin on the same day that Wagner’s mercenary boss was killed

Speculation about the general’s fate has grown since Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash late last month.

The information that appeared after the uprising showed that Surovikin was not only a close associate of Prigozhin, but also a documented member of Wagner’s group.

Russian media reported that Surovikin had been dismissed as commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the name Moscow uses for its air force, also on August 23, a few hours before the plane crash on which Prigozhin was aboard along with other commanders of Wagner’s top group .

Several Russian sources, as well as major Western newspapers, said that Prigozhin was arrested immediately after the uprising led by Prigozhin on suspicion of supporting the Wagnerian military coup.

He changed command of the invasion force sent by Putin to Ukraine earlier this year, when the Kremlin leader decided to put the head of the “special military operation” Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian General Staff.

Before the mutiny of Wagner’s group, Surovikin remained in the post of Gerasimov’s deputy and commander of the Russian Air Force, which he held until the start of the war in Ukraine.

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