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Was General Gerasimov arrested or expelled? Ukrainian volunteer "snitched" on the presence of US-Canadians in Kramatorsk and was arrested

A special course in all the Armed Forces on what is posted on social networks.

A terrible revelation has come to light in the Russian attack on Kramatorsk, in which several people were killed and injured.    

According to a verified tip, "a Ukrainian volunteer in Kramatorsk probably gave away the presence and location of American and Canadian mercenaries with an Instagram post, which was apparently easy to locate geographically (by Russian intelligence) and so shortly afterwards the Russian army fired missiles at the city," the post says.

According to new information, the person in question was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities

As a theory, this information is well-founded, for the reason that a Russian missile seems to have deliberately hit a specific area in the city, without there being any obvious military value in the area.

A Russian missile attack hit a popular pizza restaurant at dinner time in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday night, killing at least NINE people and injuring more than 40 others.

There was a large crowd inside the restaurant in the city centre when the Russian missile hit it.

The American and Canadian advisors were probably, we say, spotted by Russian agents, so the information was passed on, and without mercy Moscow struck this pizzeria.

The fact of the posting by the Ukrainian, if all of the above is true, is certainly an aggravating factor in identifying the foreign mercenaries.

We await more information on this matter.     

After Surovikin was arrested, was the Russian A/FS General V. Gerasimov also arrested?

Putin has imposed a pogrom of persecution and after the presumed arrest of General Surovikin, the Russian Generalissimo General V. Gerasimov is probably entering the frame of arrests of high-ranking officers.

In the past few days, 67-year-old Gerasimov has not appeared in public or on state television since the Wagner uprising last Saturday, Reuters reported.

While leading the armed uprising, Prigozhin had demanded that Yerasimov, who is said to be one of the holders of Russia's three "nuclear portfolios", be handed over to him.

Amid an effort by Russian President Vladimir Putin to reassert his authority, the country's top generals have been removed after a failed mercenary mutiny, Western analysts with Western intelligence information said.

A New York Times article, based on a U.S. intelligence briefing, said the senior officers in question had advance knowledge of the mutiny and that Russian authorities were checking to see if they were complicit.  

The Russian-language edition of the Moscow Times and a military analyst said other senior officers were also being questioned by Kremlin intelligence agencies for their possible role in the mutiny.

Rybar, a Telegram channel run by a former press officer of the Russian Ministry of Defence, reported that a purge is underway.

"The Kremlin is trying to find military personnel believed to have shown a "lack of resolve" in quelling the insurgency, amid some reports that parts of the armed forces appear to have failed in their duty to stop Wagner militants in the early stages of the uprising.

The armed insurgency by the private military company Wagner has become a pretext for a massive purge in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces," Rybar said on his channel.

Such a move, if confirmed, could change the way Russia conducts its war in Ukraine, which it calls a "special military operation," and cause unrest in its ranks at a time when Moscow is trying to prevent a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

It could also consolidate or elevate the positions of other senior military and security officials considered loyal.

There has been no official comment on what is happening from the Defense Ministry.

Some Russian and Western military and political analysts believe that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a veteran Putin ally whom Prigozhin wanted to neutralize, may now be more secure in his job.

Some Russian and Western military and political analysts believe that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a veteran Putin ally whom Prigozhin wanted to neutralize, may now be safer in his job.

"I think he (Prigozhin) really expected that something would be done about Soygou and Gerasimov, or that Putin would move in his favor," Michael Coffman, a Russian military expert at the Carnegie Endowment think tank, tweeted.

Viktor Zolotov, the head of the Russian National Guard who was Putin's bodyguard, appears to be another beneficiary of the whole situation, having come out publicly saying his men were ready to "stand to the death" to defend Moscow from Wagner.

He spoke of the possibility of obtaining heavy weapons and tanks for his forces after the Prigozhin mutiny; we have essentially had a silent movement within the Russian Armed Forces, the extent of which we do not yet know. 

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