A successor to Shoigu could make Surovikin a new chief of the General Staff, he said, adding: “They don’t have many truly able figures.”
A month after Prigozhin's suspicious death, the Kremlin is silent on his plane crash and legacy
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he replied that Putin works with the defense minister and the chief of the General Staff and referred questions about officers to the Defense Ministry.
Russian general is believed to be detained in aftermath of Wagner mutiny, AP sources say
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