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Gen Surovikin had last been seen in public in a video during the mutiny urging the Wagner forces to call a halt to their action.

A Change.org petition was launched on Aug 1, demanding that Warner Bros and Universal Pictures, the studio behind "Oppenheimer", call a halt to the #Barbenheimer hashtag on social media.

He couldn’t call a halt to their investigations or indictments, although if he were indicted after reelection, he could probably delay the case until the end of his term.

Gen Surovikin was last seen in public in a video during the mutiny urging the Wagner forces to call a halt to their action.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose fighters have fought alongside Russian regular troops even as he has criticized their performance in the nearly 15-month invasion, wrote on his blog over the weekend that the Kremlin should just declare its objectives achieved and call a halt to the fighting.