Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly killed in plane crash with no survivors – as it happened
by Helen Sullivan (now); Helen Livingstone ,Maya Yang from World news | The Guardian on (#6E33T)
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Russia has appointed a new acting head of its aerospace forces to replace Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed General Armageddon", the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.
In June, US intelligence claimed that Surovikin, who previously led the invasion force in Ukraine, had prior knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin's uprising, in which Wagner group mercenaries captured the city of Rostov and moved on Moscow before cutting an amnesty deal.
Ex-chief of the Russian Air and Space Forces Sergei Surovikin has now been relieved of his post, while colonel-general Viktor Afzalov, head of the main staff of the airforce, is temporarily acting as commander-in-chief of the airforce".
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