Vladimir Putin gave a clue this week about the mastermind behind Russia’s heaviest missile onslaught since the early days of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In a television address lauding the operation and warning of more to come, the Russian president said Monday’s strikes on cities across Ukraine — launched in retaliation for the attack on the Kerch bridge linking Russia to the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea — were ordered “at the defence ministry’s suggestion”.
The remark pointed to Sergei Surovikin, a hardline general named as commander of Moscow’s invasion forces two days earlier.
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