Moscow has appointed a new commander to the army in Ukraine
56-year-old army general Sergey Surovikin was appointed commander of the Joint Forces Group in the war in Ukraine.
About it on October 8 Russia Ministry of Defence released information.
In June, the ministry announced that Surovik was in charge of the Southern Force Group.
Since October 2017, he was the head of Surovik’s Aerospace Forces. He is in the armed conflict in Tajikistan, in the second Chechen war and in Syria military participated in operations.
The Russian service of Radio Liberty (svoboda.org) in 1995, Frunze Military Student of the Academy of Major Surovikin crime writes that he is involved in the responsibility.
It is noted that the Moscow garrison military RSFSR, whose court was in force at that time A crime He was found guilty under three articles of the Code. He said, “By a group of people with a prior agreement or by an organized gang crime to commit”, “Transportation, storage, acquisition, production or sale of illegal weapons, ammunition or explosives”, as well as “Theft of firearms, ammunition or explosives”.
The article mentions that with the charges brought forward according to the criminal code of that period 10 Surovik should be sentenced to a year of imprisonment, with a one-year probationary period imprisonment root removed.
One of the leaders of the investigative committee admitted that “while studying at the Military Academy named after Frunze, there were cases of illegal weapons sales by some teachers and they were brought to criminal responsibility.”
And thus, “fulfilling the request of one of these teachers, Major Surovik agreed to hand over the pistol intended for participation in the competition to his colleague from another course. During the interrogation, Major Surovik said that he was sure that he had not done anything illegal, and therefore the charge was dropped and the conviction was expunged.
Many years later, Surovikin said that “this topic” was closed for him as early as 1995:
“They cleared the investigation, found me innocent, apologized and expunged my criminal record,” and then “court judgment of conviction cancellation was done, since there is no criminal content in my actions, it is no longer the subject of speculation.”
The article claims that Surovik is scandalous later soldier Although he held high posts in the military units where he died, his name was kept away from the events.
Later, the major was formally sent to the war, but not to Chechnya, where the fighting was raging, but to the 201st motorized rifle division located in Tajikistan. At the age of 32, he is already a colonel and the headquarters of the entire division chief was
Russia’s military units in Syria (as well as Wagner’s mercenaries) suffered the most losses (one general and several colonels) in the battle during Surovik’s command. It is reported that during the fighting in Deir ez-Zor, Surovik’s operation to prevent the advance of the Kurds towards the oil fields did not take place, and as a result, the Kurds took possession of the largest oil fields. But despite this, the central television channels claimed that the success in Syria was due to Surovik.