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Top Russian general reportedly detained as Putin targets 'traitors' amid Ukraine invasion |
2022-03-19 |
Hattip lotp. [Yahoo] The deputy chief of Russian’s National Guard was reportedly detained Thursday amid news that Russian President Vladimir Putin![]() is cracking down on disloyalty within his ranks following the invasion of Ukraine. Russian Gen. Roman Gavrilov, of Rosgvardia, the internal military force of the Russian Federation that reports directly to the president of the Russian Federation, was detained by the Russian security and counterintelligence agency, Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB), according to Christo Grozev, CEO of the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat. The reason for Gavrilov's detention wasn’t immediately clear. Grozev said one of his sources told him that Gavrilov was detained by the FSB's military counter-intelligence department over "leaks of military info that led to loss of life," while two other sources said the reason was for "wasteful squandering of fuel." Rosgvardia is a unit of the Russian Federation’s internal army that reportedly suffered heavy losses in Ukraine during the three weeks since the invasion began on Feb. 24. Gavrilov previously worked for the Federal Protective Service (FSO) tasked with Putin’s security. Russian state-run media reported on Thursday that Gavrilov had been fired. In a message to Telegram, senior United Russia official Alexander Khinshtein said despite his dismissal, reports that Gavrilov had been arrested were "totally untrue." This comes as Putin said in an address on Wednesday that his country will undergo a "self-purification" of "traitors" as Russian troops continue to bombard Ukrainian civilians and advance toward Kyiv. After the speech, flight trackers purportedly detected a mass exodus of private jets flying out of Moscow and toward Dubai, suggesting that Russian oligarchs may have fled anticipating Putin’s crackdown. At least 14,980 people have been detained across Russia since the war in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, according to OVD Info, an independent organization monitoring political persecutions. Related: Rosgvardia: 2022-03-09 Russian preparing an assault in Kiev Rosgvardia: 2022-01-14 Russian FSB detains seven ISIS Bad Guys Rosgvardia: 2021-12-23 122,000 Russian troops deployed within a 200km operational distance from the borders of Ukraine, as well as another 143,500 troops within a distance of 400km |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#1 https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/russia-deploys-hypersonic-kinzhal-superweapon/ The deployment of the Kinzhal to strike a Ukrainian target ,added to this and other Stalin-esque behaviors, suggests Putin is pulling out all the stops to get this over. It also signals to the West he is intransigent and determined, and increasingly provoked by Western support to Ukraine. |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-03-19 11:55 |