Has Putin had Sergei Surovikin locked up?

When Evgeniy Prigozhin started his armed insurrection, it was clear that he had allies within the ranks of the Russian military. His Wagner Group walked unopposed into Rostov, the HQ of the Russian military in the south and they were almost entirely unmolested as they came within 120 miles of Moscow. Vladimir Putin granted him amnesty, in return for retreat and exile, but a hunt seems to be on for those who might have backed him. 

The Moscow Times is reporting the arrest of Sergei Surovikin, a general who until recently led the assault on Ukraine and had been close to Prigozhin. Citing two sources close to the Russian Ministry of Defence, the report says Surovikin ‘chose (Prigozhin’s side in the rebellion) and now he’s been grabbed by the balls’. There was no report on the whereabouts of the general, who is serving as deputy commander of the Russian troops.

Establishing the truth in Putin’s Russia is notoriously difficult: it means swimming in a sea of unconfirmed reports from by-no-means-reliable sources.