2024-05-22 12:38:43
The previous commander of the 58th Military of the Russian Federation, Main Common Ivan Popov, has been detained as a part of a prison case for fraud on a very giant scale, TASS reported, citing regulation enforcement authorities.
The dedication of a measure of remand in respect of Common Popov was thought-about by the 235th Garrison Army Courtroom.
Reuters recollects that final yr Common Popov introduced that he was fired after telling the navy management what the reality was concerning the tough state of affairs on the entrance in Ukraine at the moment.
Popov, nicknamed Spartak, commanded the Russian formations in southern Ukraine. He particularly raised the problem of Russian troopers falling sufferer to Ukrainian artillery and mentioned they lacked the right weapons techniques and intelligence to counter it.
Popov was arrested after Deputy Protection Minister Timur Ivanov, an in depth ally of then Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu, was additionally arrested final month, additionally on fees of bribery, the Related Press reported, quoted by BTA.
Russian President Vladimir Putin relieved Shoigu of his ministerial publish on Could 12 and appointed him head of the Nationwide Safety Council. Shoigu was blamed by many for Russia’s failure to seize Kiev firstly of the combating in Ukraine, and was accused of incompetence and corruption by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who in June 2023 revolted demanding the discharge of Shoigu and the chief of the final workers Valery Gerasimov.
Lower than a month after Prigozhin’s failed revolt, Popov was fired. He mentioned he had spoken to Shoigu concerning the lack of kit for the warfare in Ukraine, which has led to many Russian casualties, and that his dismissal was an “insidious” stab within the again for Russian forces in Ukraine.
Popov’s forces have been combating within the Zaporozhye area, some of the contested areas within the warfare in Ukraine. His dismissal got here a day after the 58th Military command publish within the metropolis of Berdyansk was hit by a Ukrainian strike that killed a senior basic.