Putin ‘suspends’ top commander after generals ‘sacked or arrested’ in purge

General Valery Gerasimov, centre, has reportedly been suspended alongside several other officials (Pictures: Reuters/East2West News)

Vladimir Putin has suspended his top commander as he looks for people to blame for Russia’s failure in Ukraine, it is believed.

One of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s inner circle veterans on military intelligence, Oleksiy Arestovych, claimed General Valery Gerasimov is one of several officers to be sacked.

This came out on Wednesday night, when Mr Arestovych spoke with the anti-Kremlin Russian lawyer Mark Feygin.

Mr Arestovych said: ‘According to preliminary information, Gerasimov has been de-facto suspended.

‘They are deciding whether to give him time to fix things, or not.’

The military man did stress his information was ‘preliminary’.

It comes after General Gerasimov was seemingly nowhere to be seen on Victory Day on May 9 – the anniversary commemorating Russia’s defeat of the Nazis in 1945.

Putin spends countless resources on displaying Russia’s military might.

General Valery Gerasimov, left, was nowhere to be seen on Victory Day (Picture: Getty)
The commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Igor Osipov has been arrested, according to the interior ministry in Kyiv (Picture: Reuters)
Vladislav Ersho was Russia’s 6th army commander before he was sacked

There is usually a large, machinery and personnel heavy military parade in Moscow’s Red Square on Victory Day.

Thermonuclear missiles, fighter jets forming ‘Z’ formations and tanks were everywhere.

It would make sense for Putin’s top military commander to be there but he was not pictured alongside the other generals.

Indeed, multiple others have been ‘sacked or arrested’, including admiral Igor Osipov – the commander of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

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Others who are believed to have been fired include Vladislav Ersho, Russia’s 6th army commander; lieutenant general Sergei Kisel, commander of the 1st tank army; and Arkady Marzoev, the commander of the 22nd army.

Vice admiral Sergei Pinchuk, deputy commander of the Black Sea fleet, is also reportedly under investigation.

Meanwhile, several oligarchs linked closely with the Kremlin have died under suspicious circumstances.

Most recently, billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, died of cardiac arrest after ‘going to shamans for toad venom to cure a hangover’.

Lieutenant general Sergei Kisel, commander of the 1st tank army, has also been fired (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)
Vice admiral Sergei Pinchuk, deputy commander of the Black Sea fleet, is reportedly under investigation (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)
Arkady Marzoev was the commander of the 22nd army before he was fired

Former Kremlin official Vladislav Avayev, 51, died in what appeared to be a murder-suicide killing his wife and 13-year-old daughter.

Just a few days later, multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain.

Separately, four billionaires and two executives connected to the state-owned gas and oil giant Gazprom have also died since the war started.

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Source:: Metro

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