In 2004, Surovikin was investigated - but ultimately cleared - after one of his troops killed himself after a ferocious reprimand.
However, he was later cleared and freed, reportedly on orders from then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1991, at just 24, he spent a few months in jail after three protesters were killed when his unit’s armored vehicle ran over them during the coup d’état attempt launched by Soviet hardliners, RFE said.Īt the time, he was accused of having personally shot one of the three protesters. Surovikin was named by Human Rights Watch as one of the commanders who "knew or should have known about the abuses" in Syria. “This is a man who regards terror as a legitimate, maybe even inevitable part of war,” historian Mark Galeotti wrote in The Spectator. Surovikin gained his ominous “General Armageddon” nickname while leading Russian forces in Syria - where he was accused of overseeing a brutal bombardment that destroyed much of the city of Aleppo. “I am afraid his hands will be completely covered in Ukrainian blood.” “I am not surprised to see what happened … Surovikin is absolutely ruthless, with little regard for human life,” a former defense ministry official who has worked with Surovikin told the Guardian. Just two days later, more than 80 long-range missiles rained down across Ukraine - including one just feet from a kids’ playground - in the most dramatic escalation since the invasion nearly eight months ago. Sergey Surovikin, 56, as overall commander of Russia’s joint group of forces in its so-called “special military operation” on Saturday. Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine is now being led by a ruthless commander known by his troops as “General Armageddon.”
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