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Another strategic intelligence release. (gift link)
The US “is investigating” the possibility that General. Sergei Surovikin, the former top Russian commander in Ukraine, might have helped plan Mr. Prigozhin’s actions last weekend. And oh yes
American officials also said there are signs that other Russian generals may also have supported Mr. Prigozhin’s attempt to change the leadership of the Defense Ministry by force.
And we’re not saying that Prigozhin supporters are laced through the Russian military, but
There were other signs of divided loyalties in the top ranks. Another Russian general — Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev — made his own video appeal, calling any actions against the Russian state a “stab in the back of the country and president.” But hours later, he surfaced in another video, chatting with Mr. Prigozhin in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, where Wagner fighters seized military facilities.
We’re just raising questions, the Times’s sources say.
Independent experts, and U.S. and allied officials said that Mr. Prigozhin seemed to believe that large parts of Russia’s army would rally to his side as his convoy of 8,000 Wagner forces moved on Moscow.
Over to you, Volodya.
Update 6/28/2023: Reports this morning that General Surovikin and others have been taken to the Lefortovo Prison.