The Surovikin PCS EXCOMMANDER was assigned to a new position - ISW

The major Russian media do not mention Sergei Surovikin after Vladimir Putin released him from the post of PCS commander in August. The former commander of the Air Force forces of the Russian Federation (PCS of the Russian Federation) Sergey Surovikin was appointed to a new position. He became the chairman of the Coordination Committee on Air Defense under the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

This was reported in the daily report of the Institute of War Study on September 10. Analysts noted that on September 10, several little -known and local Russian media reported that the CIS Council of Ministers Unanimously voted for the appointment of Sergiy Surovikin as head of the Air Defense Committee. It will be responsible for the control over the functioning of the united air defense system of the CIS member states.

"More mass and media -related media did not report the new appointment of Surovikin," the report said. It was added that these media did not mention Sergiy Surovikin since Russian President Vladimir Putin released him from the post of PCS commander on August 23. Sergey Surovikin held the position of commander-in-chief of the Russian Air and space forces since October 2017. In October 2022, he began to command the so -called "special operation" in Ukraine.

In January 2023, he was displaced from the post of commander and appointed to a new position - he became the deputy of the new commander -in -chief. After the rebellion of the founder of the Wagner PEC, Yevgeny Prigogine, cleaning in Russia began among higher military officials suspected of involvement in the rebellion. Sergey Surovkin was probably among the detainees. He was released from custody a few days after Prigogine's death in September.