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Excerpt from www.thesun.co.uk
A RUSSIAN general was dragged out of his bed at 5am to be taken into detention in Vladimir Putin’s latest purge.
Lt-Gen Yuri Kuznetsov, 55, was arrested and now faces “criminal charges over state secrets.”
The arrest of Lt-Gen Yuri Kuznetsov, 55, by heavily armed counterintelligence officers in balaclavas indicates a purge is underway in the Russian Defence Ministry in the midst of the war with Ukraine.
They smashed their way into Kuznetsov’s red brick mansion using crowbars and the top MoD official was “dragged out of bed and taken away for interrogation”.
Kuznetsov is in charge of the ministry’s main personnel department but his detention is seen as linked to his previous role guarding military state secrets.