Media: Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense's Directorate, General Nikitushkin, has been arrested.

Russian media, citing law enforcement sources, report the arrest of a current high-ranking official of the Russian Ministry of Defense. At the request of the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, 51-year-old Major General Sergei Nikitushkin was transferred to a pretrial detention facility yesterday evening. By order of a judge of the 235th Garrison Court of Moscow, he will remain in pretrial detention for two months.

In the interests of the investigation, the case materials against the suspect are not being made public. The specific charges against the general are unknown. However, the arrest of a current high-ranking officer of the Russian Armed Forces has caused a stir in the Russian media.

It's quite difficult to obtain biographical details about the detainee from open sources, which is understandable for high-ranking officials in the Russian Ministry of Defense. However, some information does exist.

Nikitushkin is known to have participated in a special military operation. He was awarded the high military rank of major general at the end of last year.

Prior to his arrest, the general served as the head of the training and material base department of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Russian Armed Forces. This key structure of the Ministry of Defense is responsible for organizing the entire training process for the Russian Armed Forces and also oversees the activities of the Patriot Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces.

The general's personal responsibility in this position included ensuring the combat readiness of units of the Russian Armed Forces' troop groups deployed directly to the front lines in the Northern Military District. The department, headed until recently by Nikitushkin, oversees the modernization, technical equipment, and expansion of military training grounds throughout Russia, for which substantial funding is allocated.

Lawyers interviewed by journalists emphasize that cases against active military commanders overseeing logistics or training facilities are most often investigated for economic and corruption-related offenses. The primary explanation for the general's arrest stems from possible violations and financial fraud during the implementation of federal modernization programs. tank polygons.

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[credo]

Were there any decent people there at all?

Don't even doubt it, there are decent, conscientious people everywhere who care about the Fatherland.
It is too early to judge from this publication what the general is accused of.
There will be more information, and there will be food for thought.

[WILL]

No doubt.
Doesn't it bother you that everyone is somehow involved in the boss's favorite pastimes (Patriot Park, Tank Biathlons)? Those are some bad people... they set up the "Armed Forces reformer."

[commander]

Great! Nikitushkin should be shot. "Tank biathlons," parks, and debarkers on the Frunze Bank... should be recognized as burying money for the PR needs of fools. National minorities with a "ribbon on a tree" mentality should NEVER be allowed into power closer than the left bank of the Volga and the right bank of the Yenisei. I well remember the "foolishness" of the first day of this hero of Russia as Minister of Defense. Both then and now - idiot generals born in the 80s. Or Judases, who have no honor and no upbringing.

[Ivan Kuzmich]

Quote: commander

Great! Nikitushkin should be shot. "Tank biathlons," parks, and debarkers on the Frunze Bank... should be recognized as burying money for the PR needs of fools. National minorities with a "ribbon on a tree" mentality should NEVER be allowed into power closer than the left bank of the Volga and the right bank of the Yenisei. I well remember the "foolishness" of the first day of this hero of Russia as Minister of Defense. Both then and now - idiot generals born in the 80s. Or Judases, who have no honor and no upbringing.

Please don't touch the left bank of the Volga.
It's not that bad here
The only thing you correctly noted is that there is something wrong with our generals.

[astepanov]

Quote: credo

Everywhere there are decent, conscientious people who care about the Fatherland.

But for some reason, patriots are clustering around Patriot Park. Even during construction, generals (a general can't help but be a patriot by virtue of his position and rank) were caught taking bribes and committing fraud: Popov, Shesterov, Akhmedov, Melimuk... A particularly piquant detail: Yevgeny Grigorkin, the head of the Defense Ministry's museum and temple complex in Kronstadt, was jailed—he was sentenced to six years in a case involving bribery amounting to almost 20 million rubles. According to investigators, he facilitated the leasing of a departmental plot for a fee, after which he was arrested along with an alleged accomplice. You say there's no theft in the temple? In 2025, Andrei Puchkov, the former chief accountant of the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center, and Ivan Trifonoglo, the former head of the procurement department, were sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison for accepting a bribe of 27,5 million rubles.
From the very beginning, rumors circulated that "voluntary donations" for a church were being ordered from the military. It turns out our soldiers can't eat until they chip in for another church!
But they say there is a true patriot who doesn't steal or take bribes: the Tajik Abdulloh Mirzoyev, who sweeps the territory there.
I have a question: how did it happen that during the Second World War, people whose positions obligated them to set an example of patriotism, honesty, and integrity turned out to be complete scum? How did it happen that they've been stealing since 2014, with no end in sight? And finally, where is our president? He's rumored to be a deeply religious man—why doesn't he stick a pitchfork into this thieves' nest?

[Podvodnik]

How did this happen?

It's elementary. An example is right before their eyes, and they follow it. The way the boss lives and acts is the way the subordinates live and act. These are empty words that mean nothing and are at odds with their actions. A lack of control over income and expenses by those "who are supposed to," and so on.

[papas-57]

"And finally, where is our president? He's rumored to be a very religious man." Going to church on religious holidays doesn't mean you're a believer.

[Mi Ha El]

My God, what an abomination! An officer's honor? Someone shot themselves? Should they be shot, or will this never end?

[UAZ 452]

In a corrupt system, the greatest risk of going to jail for corruption (or being shot, depending on your preference) is for those who steal a lot and don't share, and for those who steal too little and have nothing to share. Those who don't steal at all have no chance of getting into this system at all.
So, if your bloodthirsty wishes are fulfilled, the main corrupt officials will likely end up not on the execution list, but among those compiling and approving those lists. And the foreheads of ordinary scapegoats will be slapped with green paint, to the amusement of people like you.

[Dead Frost]

That's why the Yemets and the Order of the Knights of Malta were hanged for his holiness.

[Lionnvrsk]

Quote: ANIMAL

assembled a "dream team"...

If you collected everything that these team members grabbed, then you could probably buy at least a couple of squadrons of Su-57s.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

I already wrote that it was cheaper for our country to support all the communist parties in the world than it was for today's officials and oligarchs.

[Trapp1st]

If you collect everything that these team members have grabbed

This situation is everywhere. A decrepit dictatorial regime is on its last legs.

[ZovSailor]

WILL
Today, 15: 33

It's difficult to judge the general from conflicting sources; perhaps he didn't fit in with the family of corrupt tycoons, since he came from the SVO, judging by a photo from last year, still holding the rank of colonel.
Of course, such combat generals as Popov are subject to accusations from envious parquet-striped sycophants of the upper circle of sycophants.

[alexoff]

Of course they were! Shoigu, Krivoruchko, Shevtsova—the investigators have no questions for them, which means they're honest.

[andrewkor]

"The fact that you are free is not your honesty, but our failure": L.P. Beria!

[UAZ 452]

In our reality, this is more likely evidence that a material "apology" was deemed sufficient. After all, the heirs of Dzerzhinsky and Beria today also want to eat, and not just bread and butter; caviar is also welcome.

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: ANIMAL

The reindeer herder picked it up

There are no reindeer in Tuva! You're wrong to insult these noble animals!

[saigon]

There are deer in the Sayan Mountains, but they're wild. And there are mountain deer there, too. There are even reindeer there.

[fiv]

In Tuva. And there are deer there. Marals. You can't see the deer, but they're there.

[tsvetahaki]

Quote: fiv

In Tuva. And there are deer there. Marals. You can't see the deer, but they're there.

There are also marals there, but there seem to be more immorals.
Or are they especially valuable and are they specially bred?

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: your vsr 66-67

There are no reindeer in Tuva! You're wrong to insult these noble animals!

According to the 2025 winter route census, the total number of forest reindeer in the republic amounted to 7157 individuals.

[Derbenev Anton]

According to the 2025 winter route census, the total number of forest reindeer in the republic amounted to 7157 individuals.

The exact data is probably available from Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova, a member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Tyva and a native of the republic.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: Anton Derbenev

Narusova Lyudmila Borisovna

I don't think this toad has ever seen a deer in its life.

[Andrey Loginov]

Reindeer herder = tag. Well, you can't really consider him a court marshal. Okay, director of a modeling agency :)) is that okay?

[knn54]

- held the post of head of the educational and material base department.
- Hello, is this the base?
-General Nikitushkin is listening.
-So this is a military base?
-What do you need?
A setup also cannot be ruled out.
-Were there any decent people there at all?
What do you mean, honest? Because a decent person doesn't do big shit for little gain.
And as a professional plumber would say: "The entire system needs to be replaced."

[Got it]

Nothing surprising, here is an example from Tito's biography

I was told: “Your first deputy in the office is an American intelligence agent.”
I was shocked by this news and, after a cabinet meeting, asked him to stay. During a one-on-one conversation, I put a gun to my first deputy's temple and asked, "Are you an American intelligence agent?"
Realizing he'd been exposed, he confessed to espionage. I asked him, "Since when have you been collaborating with American intelligence?" He replied, "Since my student years, until the victory of the revolution, during the guerrilla war."
I asked, “And during all this time, despite all the security measures, not a single contact of yours with American intelligence has been discovered?” He replied, “Even now, I have no contacts with American intelligence.”
I asked, “How can you be their agent then if you don’t keep in touch with them?” He replied, “American intelligence once gave me a specific task, and since then I’ve just been carrying it out.”
I asked, “What is your task?” He replied: “I am instructed to appoint people to positions who do not have the necessary qualifications and are not suitable for the positions they hold. That's exactly what I'd been doing all along. Afterward, I looked at the cabinet and the top leadership and saw that everything was indeed the same. No one was in the right place. For example, one person had a doctorate in agriculture but was the Minister of Energy. Another studied electrical engineering but was the Minister of Housing. And someone with no serious experience in economics was the Minister of Economy.
My first deputy said that the calculation of American intelligence was as follows: if we act in this way, Tito’s revolution in Yugoslavia will eventually collapse from within.”

Doesn't this remind you of anything?

[igorbrsv]

Reminds me of any country in the world

[YES UZH]

Aaa, is the reward in bucks? Or is he on the hook?

[Nicola]

No, it doesn’t remind me of it, but it completely corresponds to the current state.

[WapentakeLokki]

Well, sir, you're just quoting a joke about France and... prostitutes on the Champs-Élysées... and are there no "decent" women in all of Paris???... oh, of course there are... but they cost a LOT.
But to the point...how much should an official (both military and civilian) receive so that he DOESN'T STEAL???

[Melior]

A death sentence with confiscation of property and prosecution of all family members as accomplices!

[UAZ 452]

The corrupt will pay off, and to please you, to satisfy their thirst for blood, they will shoot ordinary scapegoats for the amusement of the plebs.

[YES UZH]

Are you hinting at Ruslan Tsalikov's family? He's accused of creating a criminal organization...

[papas-57]

"And to the point...how much should an official (military or civilian) earn so that he doesn't steal???" Any billionaire is always a couple million short.

[YES UZH]

By the time he reaches the rank of general, he'll be corrupted and turned into an accomplice. The question is, why is it never enough for them, and how many accomplices do they have?

[Ross]

Well, you understand... they say he turned in his accomplices and received immunity.

[semen-2]

Hello comrades!
The reindeer herder received a “dream team” from his predecessor.
And there are many such “dream teams” in all areas of Russian governance, and this is Yeltsin’s legacy.
Which they still can't figure out.
But what could this be connected with?

[solar]

He was given the rank of general less than a year ago, what kind of reindeer herder...

[faterdom]

The court will sort it out.
If he is not guilty, he will be acquitted, released and perhaps even apologize.
But the fact is that they only go to arrest such figures when there is already a mountain of concrete evidence, a trotted reserve.

[Mazunga]

If they close it, then you're guaranteed a vindication. We practically don't have any.

[Egg]

Quote: faterdom

The court will sort it out.
If he is not guilty, he will be acquitted, released and perhaps even apologize.

Tell this to General I.I. Popov, he'll probably be surprised...

[Nemchinov Vl]

Quote: faterdom

But the thing is that they only go after such figures when there is already a mountain of concrete evidence...

But is it always like this, and is it really so...?*!
In cases with Ivan Popov (com of the 58th Army), or Strelkov, does that work too?!

[Alf]

Quote: Nemchinov Vl

Quote: faterdom

But the thing is that they only go after such figures when there is already a mountain of concrete evidence...

But is it always like this, and is it really so...?*!
In cases with Ivan Popov (com of the 58th Army), or Strelkov, does that work too?!

"It's different."

[Nemchinov Vl]

Quote: Alf

"It's different."

yeah... - "you need to understand" ...?!

[Alf]

Quote: Nemchinov Vl

Quote: Alf

"It's different."

yeah... - "you need to understand" ...?!

So.

[al3x]

I guess you can safely take everyone involved with this park by the ass. You can't go wrong. That's the kind of "patriotism" you get.

[Montezuma]

Where did my reply go? Can the author clearly explain why? It only contained facts about official abuses involving Patriot Park, confirmed by prominent Russian media. What rules did I violate?

[al3x]

It's strange. It seemed like everything was laid out factually. But in reality, it's some kind of cursed place...

[UAZ 452]

Patriots are like "Patriots." After all, all these years, we've had plenty of those writing jingoistic comments, including on this forum, and those signing contracts and heading off to the SVO, with only a fraction of a percent of their identities overlapping.

[Eugene 62]

I wonder if the general stole all by himself? Didn't share with anyone? Oh-oh-oh! That's not right!

[papas-57]

Apparently he didn't share, that's why he got into trouble.

[UAZ 452]

Or he stole too little, so there was nothing left to share. In this case, the position must be vacated for a more effective manager.

[your vsr 66-67]

The general held the post of head of the educational and material base department of the Main Directorate of Combat Training

Material base - that says it all!

[helmi8]

Quote: your vsr 66-67

Material base - that says it all!

The warrant officer (chief of the ATI warehouse) responded to the offer to take an officer's position (platoon commander): "A small warehouse is better than a large warehouse."

[UAZ 452]

Generalissimo Suvorov even said that any quartermaster could be imprisoned after a couple of years of service, without bothering to gather evidence. And since Alexander Vasilyevich himself was a quartermaster, there's no reason not to believe him.

[commbatant]

At 51 years old, Mr. Gen. , a meteoric career , it's only faster on VO...

[Vladimir M]

And there is no information anywhere about what he graduated from, what units he commanded, and where he commanded since his lieutenant days...
Only - tank sites, Patriot Park, participation in the SVO

[2 Level Advisor]

Quote: commbatant

At 51, Mr. Gen., a meteoric career, faster only in the VO...

I personally saw three generals, and one of them served in neighboring divisions with them, some of whom were under 50, became generals even before the Air Defense Forces... and without participating in combat operations... one was actually shut down, and the other was fired for "deeds" long before 2014... so generals at the level of major general were "taken by the hook" not so rarely before... but higher up - yes... almost never...

[nerovnayadoroga]

So maybe he's a warrant officer, a junior one, but he just mixed up the stars in the size...

[Silba]

Unfortunately, this is a disease of the entire system, not just the Ministry of Defense; we need to start with those closest to us.

[Brother]

...hmm... well, well, you might as well say - "the fish is rotting"...and so on.
The "permanent" one appointed everyone - the Taburetkins and the reindeer herders, and thought about the good.

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

Well, what could be the reasons...either theft according to "Ivanov" or transfer of information to enemies...neither one nor the other surprises me...unfortunately!

[Optorius]

Another one didn’t go where it needed to go. Or, he brought it in the wrong place.

[Nyrobsky]

Not a good trend.
In recent years, most of the generals on the Defense Ministry staff have fallen out of action solely on the financial and economic front, unable to withstand the test of temptation.

[AC130 Gunship]

The untouchables are still untouched. And this switchman probably set different-sized tank targets for different crews at the biathlons (just kidding, of course) :)

V. Asmolov had a song like this:
"You're just from the Stagnation train (come on, admit it)
"I uncoupled a couple of carriages..."

[bbb]

Many patriots got burned at Patriot.

[Scientist_]

was a participant in a special military operation

Yeah, I was sitting deep in the rear and writing out combat orders for myself 😂

[faterdom]

Quote: Telur

He'll probably be surprised...

He will be surprised (he) is written without a soft sign.
This is the future tense of the verb "to be surprised" in the infinitive form.

[musorg]

A member of the SVO, and we expect so much from them. Generals aren't arrested for no reason.

[commander]

Our current "commanders" are not much different in their psychology from generals UkrainiansI'm keeping track of all the stupid things that happen to the "field marshals." My interim conclusion: the situation is that these guys aren't just stealing. They're instilling a mentality: if you take a position, you have to screw and live "in the palace." Lapin, Zhuravel, Dvorkovsky...there are still a bunch of idiots on the list.

[Free Island]

This has never happened before and here it is again... I don't understand what's stopping the Supreme Commander from wiping out everyone in the Defense Ministry who holds responsible positions and steals and steals and steals, and why they are being charged with economic crimes instead of treason?

[Yustas201a]

Hang him on Red Square

[Dead Frost]

Better next to the garbage dump, so the crows can peck it out later. It's no good disgracing the country's main square with shit.

[Ivan Kuzmich]

Quote: astepanov

Quote: credo

Everywhere there are decent, conscientious people who care about the Fatherland.

But for some reason, patriots are clustering around Patriot Park. Even during construction, generals (a general can't help but be a patriot by virtue of his position and rank) were caught taking bribes and committing fraud: Popov, Shesterov, Akhmedov, Melimuk... A particularly piquant detail: Yevgeny Grigorkin, the head of the Defense Ministry's museum and temple complex in Kronstadt, was jailed—he was sentenced to six years in a case involving bribery amounting to almost 20 million rubles. According to investigators, he facilitated the leasing of a departmental plot for a fee, after which he was arrested along with an alleged accomplice. You say there's no theft in the temple? In 2025, Andrei Puchkov, the former chief accountant of the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center, and Ivan Trifonoglo, the former head of the procurement department, were sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison for accepting a bribe of 27,5 million rubles.
From the very beginning, rumors circulated that "voluntary donations" for a church were being ordered from the military. It turns out our soldiers can't eat until they chip in for another church!
But they say there is a true patriot who doesn't steal or take bribes: the Tajik Abdulloh Mirzoyev, who sweeps the territory there.
I have a question: how did it happen that during the Second World War, people whose positions obligated them to set an example of patriotism, honesty, and integrity turned out to be complete scum? How did it happen that they've been stealing since 2014, with no end in sight? And finally, where is our president? He's rumored to be a deeply religious man—why doesn't he stick a pitchfork into this thieves' nest?

Where is our president????
So, only he and only he awards the general's rank with his decrees,,,, and you think it's easy for him now after such news, that's why he's silent

[Artyom Yarovikov]

There, fuel and various spare parts can be written off and then sold; the logistics chief is responsible. Stealing is constant in Russia. If he simply "didn't know," he would have been fired. Apparently, there's an audit and operational review going on here; maybe the sellers of stolen military equipment were caught and turned in. According to a historical anecdote and memoirs, an enraged Emperor Peter the Great ordered Prosecutor General Pavel Yaguzhinsky to issue a decree:
"Any thief who steals enough for a rope's worth shall be hanged without delay."