Former commander of the 58th Army Ivan Popov, arrested in a fraud case, was allowed to return to war
He will command one of the Storm Z squads. The former commander of the 58th Guards Army, Major General Ivan Popov, who was arrested in the case of fraud and forgery (Part 4 of Article 159, Article 292 of the Criminal Code), signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense to participate in the war against Ukraine. TASS reports this with reference to his lawyer Sergei Buinovsky.