Prominent journalist says Russia's Surovikin dismissed as head of aerospace forces

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A prominent Russian journalist said on Tuesday (Aug 21) that General Sergei Surovikin, former commander of Moscow's war effort in Ukraine, had been dismissed as head of the country's aerospace forces. There was no official confirmation of the report by Alexei Venediktov, the well-connected former head of t

A prominent Russian journalist said on Tuesday that General Sergei Surovikin, former commander of Moscow's war effort in Ukraine, had been dismissed as head of the country's aerospace forces.

Venediktov said on his Telegram channel that Surovikin had been removed by official decree, without providing any further details.since a short-lived mutiny on Jun 24-24 by the Wagner mercenary group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin against Russia's defence establishment.

 

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