Top Russian General Nabbed Over Wagner Mutiny

Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Deputy Commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, has been arrested after a failed coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), The Moscow Times reported.

Photo Insert: The first report of Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Deputy Commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin's possible arrest emerged on the Telegram channel of a Kremlin-aligned blogger Vladimir Romanov.

"In the context of Prigozhin. Apparently, he [Surovikin] chose Prigozhin's side during the uprising, and they got ahold of him," the source said.

Answering a question regarding the general's whereabouts, the source replied "We are not even commenting on this information through our internal channels," Ukrainska Pravda also reported.

The first report of Surovikin's possible arrest emerged on the Telegram channel of a Kremlin-aligned blogger Vladimir Romanov.

He claimed that Surovikin was arrested on 25 June, immediately after the Wagner PMC mutiny. Romanov asserted that Surovikin was being held in the Lefortovo Detention Center in Moscow, the Associated Press (AP), Al-Jazeera and Business Insider also reported.

A report of the arrest came after the New York Times published a story that revealed US intelligence knew about the planned mutiny and that Surovikin knew about it.

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