General Sergei Surovikin allegedly released from custody after Prigozhin's death

Detained Russian General Sergei Surovikin was allegedly released a few days after the death of the Wagner PMC leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. 

The New York Times reported this. 

Unnamed American officials claim that the general knew about the uprising in advance. A few hours after it began, Russian authorities published a video in which General Surovikin called on the mercenaries to stand down.

The terms of Surovikin's release from custody remain unknown. 

According to an anonymous source close to the Russian Ministry of Defence, General Surovikin was released a few days after Prigozhin's death in a plane crash. 

"The general has retained his rank so far and is technically still an officer in the military, but he no longer has any career prospects," the source said. 

On September 4, for the first time since the armed rebellion, a photo with Surovikin appeared. It was published by Russian news figure Ksenia Sobchak.

"General Sergei Surovikin is out: alive, healthy, at home with his family in Moscow," Sobchak wrote on her Telegram channel. It is unknown where she got the photo from.

It will be recalled that Alexei Venediktov and RBC media, citing a presidential decree and their own sources, reported that Surovikin was allegedly dismissed from his post as commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces.