Expert: Putin Scared Of General Popov Marching To Moscow

• 31.05.2024, 12:32

And, unlike Prigozhin, he won't stop.

A few days after Putin put Belousov in Shoigu's place, he gathered Gerasimov, Belousov and Shoigu and publicly promised that he would no longer ‘harass’ generals and put them in jail.

However, two days later he continued to do so. In particular, the dictator jailed General Popov, commander of the 58th Army, who had spoken out against Gerasimov. Putin was afraid that the latter would repeat the fate of Prigozhin and ‘march to Moscow’, but unlike the latter he will not stop.

Ukrainian international journalist Oleksandr Demchenko said this in an interview with Oleksiy Gomon, which can be seen on the Dmytro Gordon YouTube channel.

Putin is afraid of Russian generals, that's why he is ‘mopping them up’. At the same time, some of the generals are even in a more combative mood than Putin himself, some are just corrupt, but for the most part they are people who can potentially resist Putin. Not the regime (as they are happy with the war), but Putin, the analyst stressed.

According to Demchenko, the generals want money, and all the flows are concentrated in the hands of Putin and the Chekists. And the former ask themselves the question: why don't we own these flows?

Russian generals are a truly dangerous force that can bring out an army against Putin, the journalist believes.

‘Putin said a key phrase during his inauguration for a reason (the rest of it was nonsense). He said that he had given a task to the security forces to prevent turmoil, which means that he assumed at that moment that turmoil in Russia was possible. And now we can see, after the purge of generals has begun, who, in Putin's opinion, could have organised this turmoil,’ the expert explained.