Kadyrov and Prigozhin supported the appointment of Surovikin as commander of the military operation

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov greeted solution Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu to appoint Sergei Surovikin commander of the joint group of troops of the special military operation in Ukraine. The creator of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called Mr. Surovikin a legendary person. Both Mr. Kadyrov and Mr. Prigozhin reported that they were personally acquainted with the general.

The head of Chechnya considers Sergei Surovikin “a real general and warrior, an experienced, strong-willed and far-sighted commander.” “I welcome and am pleased with this appointment. The combined group of troops is now in safe hands. I am sure that Sergey Surovikin will improve the situation in the NVO zone for the better. Well, we, of course, will help him in solving the tasks set,” Mr. Kadyrov wrote in Telegram. He noted that he had personally known the new commander for almost 15 years.

According to Mr. Prigozhin, Mr. Surovikin is “the most competent commander in the Russian army.” “But he can act in the current situation based on the opportunities that he has and relying on the situation that was transferred to him by his predecessors, and it was transferred, to put it mildly, not in the best possible way,” the businessman, who published the press, said in a comment. – service of his company “Concord” “In contact with”.

Yevgeny Prigozhin recalled that Sergei Surovikin in 1991 participated in the August coup on the side of the State Emergency Committee. “Surovikin is the officer who, without hesitation, having received an order, got into a tank and rushed to save his country.

By the way, in August 1991 I also participated in those events, however, then I was on the side of the protesters – the liberal forces. We were then in the deepest delusion, and instead of sending the fundamental assembled country, called the USSR, into a new direction, giving the idea of ​​private property, a new vector of economic development and working on the mistakes, we all together destroyed it to the ground, ”says the comments.

Ramzan Kadyrov in early October accused Colonel-General Alexander Lapin that the Russian troops were forced to leave Krasny Liman. He claims that he warned the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov about the situation, but he said that he “does not doubt Lapin’s talent as a commander.” Evgeny Prigogine then supported “expressive statement” of the head of Chechnya.