Posted on 08/26/2023 1:47:21 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
An imprisoned Russian general who oversaw the building of Vladimir Putin's £1bn Black Sea palace has died in custody, shortly after becoming eligible for parole.
It is not clear exactly how 69-year-old Gennady Lopyrev died, but authorities have said he became ill on Monday before dying in the early hours of Tuesday.
The general was jailed in 2017 by a military court over charges of bribe-taking and illegal possession of ammunition – which he always denied.
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General Gennady Zhidko, who briefly commanded the Kremlin's troops in Ukraine before being ousted for "failures" on the battlefield, is another of Putin's old allies to die of an illness this week.
The commander died aged 57 in Moscow on Wednesday following a "long illness", a regional leader announced on Telegram.
Zhidko briefly led the so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine from May 2022 before being booted "for failures during military operations", the BBC reported at the time.
He was replaced by Sergey Surovikin, an alleged ally of Wagner chief and mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was also eventually ousted and is now reportedly under house arrest, Politico reports.
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Ruzzia is based on bribes.
My condolences for your loss.
Who cares?
There is no $1 billion palace.
Same as the Mexican cartels. They kidnap 5-6 men to build/excavate a drug tunnel to the US. Tell them they will be paid handsomely when they are done.
Instead, they are killed, in order to keep the tunnel secret.
There's something out there, though it's not exactly new.
However:
Vladimir Putin has denied he owns a palace, in his first comments since nemesis Alexei Navalny linked him to an opulent £1bn development on the Black Sea coast.
A grand reception room at the palace
One of the palace's ornately decorated master bedrooms
Leaked pictures show a red velvet pole dancing boudoir.
It must be something they put in the water.
The USA government, starting at the very top, is based on bribes.
Straight up.
Putin is about as frivlous as a battle ship. A serious man, and years of photos demonstrate he’s interested in fue fue accommodations. Rather he is chronicled spending himself outdoors.
Now who is interested in peddling the ridiculous wuth no evidence.
Oh, possibly the CIA. 😉
Yahooooooooooooooooo ! Globalist propaganda. Again.
Based on Russian sources. The death of Zhidkov is interesting. Data point.
In what way is this wrong?
That outdoor stuff was a PR campaign.
Do you know, independently, what Putin spends on himself? What his personal fortune is?
FTA: “General Gennady Zhidko, who briefly commanded the Kremlin’s troops in Ukraine before being ousted for ‘failures’ on the battlefield, is another of Putin’s old allies to die of an illness this week...The general was jailed in 2017 by a military court...”
That should put an end to the fiction held by some FReepers that there were no Russian forces in Ukraine prior to the 2022 invasion. But it won’t.
“In what way is this wrong?”
It’s wrong because he doesn’t like it.
When there's no good war news from Ukraine we get human interest stories from Russia. Spying, intrigue, conspiracies...
Globalist propaganda from globalist-leftist propaganda sites. If you can’t figure that out...
Gennady Zhidko didn’t kill himself.
Globalist propaganda from the Russians?
Globalist propaganda from globalist-leftist propaganda sites. If you can’t figure that out...
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