Sergei Surovikin, the previous commander of Russian troops in Ukraine who disappeared from sight following the late Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rise up in Russia, has been noticed in Algeria.

Supply: Meduza, a Latvia-based Russian media outlet

Particulars: Russian journalists have drawn consideration to images posted by the Russian Embassy in Algeria through which a person just like Surovikin carrying sun shades is current.

The embassy didn’t point out the overall's identify, however indicated that his place is "head of a gaggle of Russian army specialists".

Background:

• After Prigozhin’s rise up in the summertime of 2023, Surovikin not appeared within the public eye.
• Rumours unfold within the Russian media that the overall might have recognized in regards to the rise up prematurely. He was arrested after the mutiny and launched after Prigozhin died in a aircraft crash.
• From October 2022 to January 2023, Surovikin commanded the joint group of Russian troops in Ukraine, and from 11 January 2023, he served as deputy commander.
• Surovikin visited Algeria in September 2023 amid media hypothesis that he could be appointed to work within the japanese a part of the nation.
• In February 2025, Victor Sobolev, a member of the Duma Defence Committee, mentioned that Surovikin was "working as a army adviser" in an African nation.

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