His name is Sergey Surovikin, he is 55 years old and was born in Novosibirsk, Siberia. But the most up-to-date biography of the general, who is now leading Russia’s entire “special operation” in Ukraine, is that he has a history of military-style brutality – as well as responsibility for the deaths of protesters in the 1991 coup d’état and charges of illegal trafficking. weapons.
Surovikin went through several military academies in Russia and made his debut in the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, but it was only in 1991 that he was noticed, and soon on Russian territory. During 1991 coup attemptcarried out by the hardliners of the Politburo against Mikhail Gorbachev, Surovikin led the division, despite the fact that he was only 24 years old, because remember website independent Russian Medusa. One of the tanks under your command tried to destroy the barricades erected by protesters who supported Gorbachev, and eventually kill three people. Surovikin spent more than six months in custody, but the Moscow prosecutor’s office eventually closed the case, believing that the serviceman was simply “following orders.”
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