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Will Stewart & Rachel Hagan

Top Russian general arrested after going missing amid claims he knew about Wagner mutiny

A top Kremlin general has been arrested after he has "vanished" amid claims he knew about Yevgeny Prigozhin's attempted coup in Russia over the weekend.

It is alleged that General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin is under interrogation over a plot to oust defence minister Sergei Shoigu amid a hunt to purge the enemies within.

Surovikin, 56, is the second-in-command of the Russian armed forces.

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