Commander seen as an ally of Wagner has not been seen in public since Yevgeny Prighozin’s mutiny in June
“Surovikin is a very complex individual with four decades of service to the army and he has a lot of lore around him,” said Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the Rand Corporation thinktank who specialises in Russian military strategy.
Venediktov said Surovikin had been questioned by a special commission that was set up by Sergei Shoigu to investigate Russian officers after the Prigozhin mutiny. Details of that commission, as well as what authorities it holds, have not been made public. While a number of Russian commanders were rumoured to have been purged in the days after the mutiny, most have reappeared in public and appear to have retained command of their posts.
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