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'Purge': Top Russian generals Gerasimov and Surovikin are reportedly missing following Wagner mutiny
Russian generals Sergei Surovikin and Valery Gerasimov have not been seen in public since Wagner Group mercenaries attempted to oust Russia's military command
'Purge': Top Russian generals Gerasimov and Surovikin are reportedly missing following Wagner mutiny
Two senior Russian generals have not been seen in public since Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevengy Prigozhin rebelled against President Vladimir Putin's military commanders.
www.foxnews.com
Two of Russia's senior commanders have reportedly disappeared from public view after the Wagner Group's aborted mutiny, which targeted Russian military leadership.
One general was reportedly arrested in the days since Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his short-lived rebellion and relocated his forces to Belarus. Prigozhin's "march for justice" on Moscow was seen as the most significant challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime in decades, and Putin now seeks to reassert his authority.
The other commander, Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov, has not appeared in public or on state TV since the aborted mutiny on Saturday, when Prigozhin demanded Gerasimov be handed over. Nor has he been mentioned in a defense ministry press release since June 9, Reuters reported.
Gerasimov, 67, is the commander of Russia's invasion force in Ukraine and one of three Russian commanders who hold "nuclear briefcases," according to some Western military analysts.
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Rybar claimed Russia's top brass were trying to remove military personnel believed to have shown "a lack of decisiveness" in crushing the rebellion amid reports that Wagner fighters met little resistance from Russia's armed forces in the first hours of the rebellion.
"The armed insurgency by the Wagner private military company has become a pretext for a massive purge in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces," Rybar said, per Reuters.
"Putin is orchestrating a purge to capitalize on the coup, which in my intelligence assessment was a false flag operation," Koffler told Fox News Digital. "He is continuing to advance the narrative that he is the one and only strong leader who is able to crush all the traitors, squash the mutiny and save Mother Russia — this is in preparation for his 2024 re-election run. He is consolidating power even further, ensuring he is only surrounded by loyalists."
Koffler said Putin wants to drive the narrative that instability in Russia, which possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal, is bad for the entire world.
"General Armageddon is arrested and Gen. Gerasimov, of the holders of Putin’s three nuclear footballs is missing — a threatening situation. Until Ukraine is crushed by Russia and Putin gets to keep Crimea and the provinces he has annexed, no one will sleep safely," Koffler said. "This is what Putin wants the world to know."
Commentary:
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the mutiny in what he called a "march for justice" in retaliation for the ill-treatment of his forces in Ukraine, said he regretted the attack on Russian soldiers but deemed it necessary.
BTW, is this the same British intelligence (MI-that told us Trump was colluding with Russian spy and hired Russian prostitutes to urinate all over his bed, despite him not in Russia wen the incident supposedly occurred?
That British intelligence?
Meanwhile, both China and Russia prepare for war, and our leader Joey Xi, both civilian and military, are more concerned with forced diversity and LGBQT than combat readiness.
The left is dividing and weakening our country in every way, including the military.
No wonder our military can't meet their recruitment quotas.
Putin like Xi Jinping took notice of Joe Biden's weakness and our DOJ and FBI. He liked what he saw and is implementing similar policies. One has to wonder what took him so long?
