General Surovikin was appointed commander of the united grouping of troops in Ukraine

Russian Army General Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of the united grouping of troops in the area of ​​the so -called "special military operation". It is reported by TASS.

Prior to this, Surovikin was headed by the Southern Military District.

In 1991, by decision of the State Emergency Committee, Surovikin personally led the column armored vehicle, which during the August putsch pressed people. Then three defenders of the White House were killed: Vladimir Usov, Dmitry Komar and Ilya Krichevsky. According to the official version, in the tunnel under the new Arbat “the column was stopped by the crowd, blockages were built on the road. Surovikin turned to the crowd with warnings ... demanded to skip the column and fired two warning shots up from the table weapons. Then, with a part of the column, he broke through the rubble and left the scene of the conflict, and with the ongoing attacks of the crowd, three young people died on the remaining combat vehicles, ” recalls the member of the Council of the Center for Human Rights Protection Alexander Cherkasov for the Novaya Gazeta. Europe". According to RIA Novosti, after that, Surovikin got into the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center, but soon Boris Yeltsin personally ordered the release of Surovikin.

In 1995, Surovikina was found guilty of several crimes at once: consideration, acquisition and sale, as well as wearing firearms and ammunition without appropriate permission. These articles of the Criminal Code provided for up to 8 years in prison, but, as Radio Liberty notes , the sentence turned out to be humane: one year in prison. Later, “when the investigation figured out that the officer was framed, the prosecution was removed and the criminal record was repaid,” writes Project. Project also reported that in March 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Tsibizov accused the division commander Major General Surovikin of beating for political reasons. Later Tsibizov took his statement from the prosecutor's office.

In 2014, already being the commander of the troops of the Eastern Military District, as the then head of the headquarters of Navalny Leonid Volkov, Sergei Surovikin worked in the Rostov region, where he led the sending of tank units subordinated to him to the southeast.

In 2017, Putin appointed Surovikin the commander of the aerospace forces. Twice during this period, he sent to Syria, where he spent more than a year in total.

In June 2022, it became known that Surovikin commanded the southern grouping of troops in Ukraine: the Ministry of Defense wrote about this, saying that under the command of Surovikin she “completed the defeat of the surrounded group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the“ Gorsky Cauldron ”. In this post, he replaced Alexander Dvornikov.