Chief of Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov came to Izyum to inspire Russian soldiers to attack.
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov came to Izyum to try to change the course of the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine. The New York Times writes about this with reference to two unnamed American officials.
The Ukrainian military, having received information about the arrival of the odious general, struck at one of the positions where he was. However, by that time Gerasimov had already left.
Instead, according to Alexei Arestovich, an adviser to the head of the president's office, at least 200 Russian occupiers have been killed in strikes in the area, including 30 senior officers, from major to colonel. “It happened in five days. Among them were at least 30 senior officers, the commander was killed at one command post. One of the elite Russian special forces, who was guarding someone very high-ranking, was specifically injured,” he said. he was on the air of the Fagin Live Youtube channel on May 1.
One of the dead was probably Major General Andriy Simonov , writes NYT.
On April 28, the media reported citing sources that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov came to Izyum to personally command troops in the Donbas.
On April 30, an explosion with a large number of wounded took place near the headquarters where Gerasimov's raid was allegedly located. The next day, rumors spread that Gerasimov was also injured, after which he was urgently taken to Russia, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine did not confirm the information about the injuries.
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Gerasimov, along with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russian Secretary Nikolai Patrushev is one of Vladimir Putin's closest associates. According to Bloomberg sources, these people decided to invade Ukraine.
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