A brand new picture showing to indicate Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen in public since a quick mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June, was revealed on social media on Monday by a well-known Russian media character.

“General Sergei Surovikin is out. Alive, healthy, at home, with his family, in Moscow. Photo taken today,” Ksenia Sobchak wrote in a caption to the image on Telegram. Reuters couldn’t confirm the authenticity of the picture, which confirmed a person in sun shades and a cap strolling alongside a girl resembling Surovikin’s spouse, Anna.

A second report, revealed by outstanding unbiased Russian journalist Alexei Venediktov on his Telegram channel, stated: “General Surovikin is at home with his family. He is on leave and available to the Defence Ministry.” Venediktov supplied no pictorial proof.

Various media shops reported that Surovikin had fallen out of favour with the Kremlin following the aborted mutiny by Wagner in June, and that he was being investigated for attainable complicity. State information company RIA stated final month he had been eliminated as head of the air drive and his deputy Viktor Afzalov had assumed the job on a brief foundation. Surovikin, who gained the nickname “General Armageddon” throughout Russia’s army intervention in Syria’s civil battle, was briefly accountable for Moscow’s battle effort in Ukraine earlier than that function was handed in January to General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the final employees.

Surovikin was extensively seen by Russian battle commentators as a forceful and succesful determine. The late Wagner boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a personal jet crash final month, was fiercely essential of Russia’s defence institution however spoke extremely of Surovikin, calling him “a man who is not afraid of responsibility”.

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