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The section boasting about his achievements in Syria uses flimsy Russian sources. The article as a whole needs a clean up. Yellowmellow45 (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Surovikin is well known for his extensive terror attacks in Syria, bombing civilians to death in huge numbers, but in a weird way, his crimes in Syria are not mentioned here and his brutal actions against civilians is presented in a strange, positive way. And shortly after taking command over all Russian attackers in Ukraine, a huge campaign against innocent civilians started, without any mentioning at all. This is a very misleading article. Joreberg (talk) 18:58, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
What Battalion ? This Division then had: 1-й гвардейский мотострелковый полк - Polk = Regiment. Or is meant: "1st [motorized rifle] battalion of 1st Guards motorized rifle regiment ? Wonder why even ru brings that kind of quite improper "information". --129.187.244.19 (talk) 13:45, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
I agree the lead section, as of 12 October 2022, needs to be expanded. However, when editing the lead, try to make sure that the information is fully covered in the text below. One good test is that the citations are in the text below, and not in the lead. --Bejnar (talk) 14:03, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Would this seemingly official twitter account be a good source of information and/or quotes? 180.244.128.130 (talk) 06:20, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
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In 11 November 2022, Alexander Zakharov, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly in Primorsky Oblast, claimed that Sergey Surovikin was the son of Vladimir Surovikin, a Soviet pilot who was decorated in the Korean War, and who died in the year of Sergey Surovikin’s birth when his aircraft experienced engine failure, and he heroically sacrificed his own life to steer the fighter away from residential buildings rather than ejecting to save his own life. This claim has been widely repeated in pro-Kremlin media.
The supposed connection with Vladimir Surovikin has been denied by the Soviet pilot’s great-grandson, Vladimir Mazich, and also appears to be refuted by a wedding certificate recording the pilot’s marriage to a woman who is not Sergey Surovikin’s mother.
References: UATV, “Fake hero: how Kremlin tries to hide bloody track record of Sergey Surovikin”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv_tof9rYE0
Medusa, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/11/22/we-hope-this-is-a-mistake
Yahoo News, “Russian propagandists invent heroic bloodline for Surovikin”, https://news.yahoo.com/russian-propagandists-invent-heroic-bloodline-201000991.html
New Voice of Ukraine, https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-propagandists-invent-heroic-bloodline-for-surovikin-news-50285718.html
The Insider, “ Russian propagandist invents legend of “heroic pilot father who fought the Americans” for General Surovikin”, https://theins.ru/en/news/257188 1.132.105.165 (talk) 04:57, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/28/russian-general-arrested-following-wagner-mutiny-mt-russian-a81685 Victor Grigas (talk) 20:42, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
Wagner-adjacent general Surovikin under arrest by FSB – report (yahoo.com) / Surovikin: Russian general missing since Wagner mutiny ‘resting’ | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
Appears to state the Surovikin has been arrested by the FSB in Russia, this has also been reported widely in the past day (07/13/23) by multiple mainstream news outlets. Vatily.varistokovko (talk) 05:55, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Though at this moment, the whereabouts of Surovikin is unknown, but recently there're unconfirmed reports that Surovikin may be dispatched to Algeria for an assignment, and likely related to Russian MOD's subsuming Wagner's control in Africa--- [9]https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-15-2023
Of course as usual, ISW cited multiple Russian Telegram sources, and some related to previous news and assessments of Deputy Russian defense minister Yevkurov's visit to Africa, which some alleged to carry out the task of taking over Wagner and its operations in Africa.
If confirmed, then Surovikin may follow a well-described path as others pointed out before that Putin dispatches any general out of favor for a while to another corner of the earth(e.g. Armenia, Syria), stay there for a while and finish whatever task at hand, and if possible, recalls that general back to Russia or simply Ukraine once the general wins back Putin's favor. Bf0325 (talk) 18:57, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
That’s not his nick name. That’s a name given to him by the western media. Yasarhossain07 (talk) 22:36, 26 May 2024 (UTC)