SBU Major General: Putin So Scared That Military Men Started To "disappear"
9- 27.08.2025, 16:20
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The Kremlin is afraid of new "Prirozhinsky" scenarios.
Arrests of high-ranking generals of the Ministry of Defense continue in Russia. On August 26, the arrest of Major General Konstantin Kuvshinov, the former head of the 9th Medical and Diagnostic Center (MDC) of the Russian Defense Ministry, became known. After the resignation of Sergey Shoigu as head of the Defense Ministry, this is the ninth military leader to be accused of multimillion-dollar embezzlement and bribes.
What is really behind the string of arrests of Russian generals - a fight against corruption or an attempt by the Kremlin to mop up disloyal officers? Charter97.org spoke to retired SBU Major General Viktor Yagun about this:
- Russia is a totalitarian power that lives by its own principles. They actually have a reincarnation of the Stalin era, 1937. Some came, others left. They need to clean up the old elites. How to clean up? The easiest thing is to accuse you of being a spy and working for the West. Now it's corruption: under this pretext they pull everything up. But when the main corruptor sits in the first post, what kind of fight against corruption can we talk about? It's just the easiest way to clean up the territory. That's all. They took out Shoigu and now they are cleaning up further.
It is a different matter when they detain combat generals, conditionally combat generals - those who hold positions not only in the ministry, but also in the troops, at least they know where these troops are. This is already a different system. After Evgeny Prigozhin's attempt to "restore order" in Russia, Vladimir Putin was so frightened that now he protects everyone and everything. That's why the military goes "missing" from time to time.
Nothing extraordinary is actually happening. Totalitarian states devour themselves, because there is no opposition, nothing to be attracted to. But it is necessary to show the work of law enforcement agencies, and this is how they show it.
- How do these arrests affect the moral climate and controllability in the Russian army?
- When combat generals are arrested, the moral and psychological factor drops very much. After all, they mostly arrest those who can take responsibility, who were called "the father of the soldier": he came, built everyone up, put them in their place. And if non-combatant generals are arrested, it has almost no effect.
The only thing is that all those who are appointed in their place realize that tomorrow they may come after them. So they try to steal as much as they can. The more you steal, the more you can hide. After all, they know that someone will serve a year or two in jail, or even get out of jail and pay off. The loot will be left for their children and grandchildren. That's why they steal everything as fast as they can.
- Is it possible that some of the generals will revolt against Putin?
- No, I don't think so. They don't have such a possibility. Because the Kremlin started in time to knock out the generals who could do something about it. There were a couple of people - conditionally, Sergei Surovikin, who was in contact with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a few others who could really take responsibility. But all of them have been removed: some are retired, some have been pushed far aside.
The only category of people who can try to take responsibility are businessmen close to the authorities. They may at one point say, "We're fed up! We're supposed to be making money, and you won't let us!" - and then they can get together, bribe someone, organize a "sabantuy". But there are no people in Russia today who are not only willing but also able to take responsibility.
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