Kremlin does not allow questions about Surovikin
The Kremlin does not want to say anything about the fate of disgraced General Sergey Surovikin. Journalists are not even allowed to ask questions about him.
Source: Russian website Meduza citing Mayak ("Lighthouse") radio
Details: Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, has refused to answer questions about General Surovikin.
An AFP journalist asked Peskov at a briefing: "Yesterday, Sergei Shoigu left journalists' questions about a possible investigation into General Surovikin unanswered. Can I ask you this question?"
"No, you can't," Putin's spokesman answered.
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu also refused to answer questions about General Sergey Surovikin at a briefing on 4 September.
Background:
- Various media state that Surovikin was detained after Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny at the end of June, but was released a few days after the death of the Wagner leader in a plane crash.
- However, Surovikin, who has been repeatedly linked to Prigozhin by the Western media, has not appeared in public since addressing the Wagnerites on the night of 23-24 June, in which he called on them to lay down their arms.
- Bloomberg also wrote that the general had been interrogated for several days by military prosecutors about his connections with Prigozhin. The source of the agency claimed that Surovikin is being held "in one place", but he is not in prison.
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