{"id":224400,"date":"2023-11-16T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=224400"},"modified":"2023-11-16T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T13:58:51","slug":"former-commander-who-criticised-russia-found-dead-alongside-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/former-commander-who-criticised-russia-found-dead-alongside-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Former commander who criticised Russia found dead alongside wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former commander who criticised Putin for the state of Russia&#8217;s air force is mysteriously found dead alongside his wife<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vladimir Sviridov and his wife were dead for a week before they were found<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lieutenant General left the military after criticising Russia&#8217;s military<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian authorities are still trying to find the cause of their deaths\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former commander of Russian air defences has been found dead alongside his wife under mysterious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Highly-decorated Lieutenant General Vladimir Sviridov, 68, and his wife Tatyana, 72, were dead for around a week before their corpses were found, it is reported.<\/p>\n<p>The retired pilot once criticised Vladimir Putin for running a &#8216;third-ranking&#8217; air force, warning top officers were leaving the armed forces because of dire pay and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have been unable to ascertain the cause of death, local media reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The general and his wife were found in their home in the village of Adzhievsky in Stavropol region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/08\/77867961-12756289-image-a-14_1700123115812.jpg\" height=\"872\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Highly-decorated Lieutenant General Vladimir Sviridov, 68, (pictured) and his wife Tatyana, 72, were dead for around a week before their corpses were found<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/08\/77867959-12756289-image-a-15_1700123118405.jpg\" height=\"507\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sviridov&#8217;s death is the latest in a long line of deaths under mysterious circumstances that many believe have been orchestrated by Vladimir Putin (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/08\/77867967-12756289-image-a-16_1700123123288.jpg\" height=\"840\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He left Russia&#8217;s military after he made a series of scathing comments about the army\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Gas service workers have already taken measurements and no excess of the permissible concentration of harmful substances has been detected,&#8217; an initial report into their death read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What caused the death of Vladimir and Tatyana Sviridov is still unknown.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Chelsea FC faces fresh questions after leaked files &#8216;reveal secret payments&#8217; between ex-owner Roman Abramovich and Putin&#8217;s regime<\/h3>\n<p>Sviridov commanded the 6th Army of the Russian Air Force and Air Defence from 2005 to 2009 in an appointment made by Putin.<\/p>\n<p>He was an honoured Pilot of Russia and earlier had served as a military sniper pilot.<\/p>\n<p>He had been awarded the Order of the Red Star and a clutch of medals.<\/p>\n<p>Sviridov left his commander&#8217;s role at 54 years old, after making a series of scathing public comments about the Russian armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>He warned in one interview: &#8216;A pilot must have about 100 hours of flight time per year for full combat readiness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;However, this is not yet the case. The average flight time in the army is currently 25-30 hours.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In another interview, he complained: &#8216;We are forced to appoint not fully trained officers because there are no better ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For the same reason we are sending to military academies third-ranking pilots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This did not happen in the past.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/08\/77867971-12756289-image-a-17_1700123129900.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sviridov commanded the 6th Army of the Russian Air Force and Air Defence from 2005 to 2009 in an appointment made by Putin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/08\/77867969-12756289-image-a-18_1700123133421.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities are still trying to figure out how the decorated commander and his wife died<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/08\/77867965-12756289-image-a-19_1700123136622.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He was an honoured Pilot of Russia and earlier had served as a military sniper pilot<\/p>\n<p>Low salaries and poor housing provision meant experienced officers leave the military as soon as they can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One in two of our officers, unfortunately, has no accommodation,&#8217; he revealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Up to 10 per cent of young officers are doing everything possible to retire early.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He told Putin to &#8216;create normal living conditions for young officers, as well as for all servicemen, so that they can properly perform their service duties&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been hit by a spate of suspicious deaths since the start of Putin&#8217;s war against Ukraine, with figures from across the country seemingly being targeted by the Kremlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the private military company Wagner, died after his plane crashed 185 mile north of Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many believe his death was ordered by Putin, after Prigozhin led a column of Wagner tanks up towards Moscow, following months of disagreement between his mercenaries and Russia&#8217;s defence ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12756289\/Former-commander-criticised-Putin-state-Russias-air-force-mysteriously-dead-alongside-wife.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former commander who criticised Putin for the state of Russia&#8217;s air force is mysteriously found dead alongside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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