The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, General Valeri Gerasimov, has been wounded in this offensive
The Ukrainian Government has assured that several officers of the Russian Army, among them the general responsible for electronic warfare, Andrei Simonov, have died in an attack on a barracks occupied by Russian forces in the city of Izium (Kharkov region), on the country’s eastern front.
The adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anton Herashchenko, He has assured on his Twitter account that at the time of the attack, which occurred on Saturday, he was in the place The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, General Valeri Gerasimov, who has been wounded, while supervising the Russian offensive on the east of the country.
Moscow has not confirmed this attack or given information about the presence of General Gerasimov.
However, the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’ was the first to quote Ukrainian and Russian sources as saying that Vladimir Putin’s top military commander withdrew from the war zone with shrapnel wounds after the Russian president will send it to Ukraine to ensure victory.
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The Ukrainian army attacked a command post of the Russian 2nd Army on Saturday and hit more than 30 Russian armored vehicles. The general Andrew Simonov was among 100 Russian soldiers killed in the attack, according to President Zelensky’s military adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, who noted that well-placed military sources had confirmed Simonov’s death.
Simonov he was a senior electronic warfare commander and his death would make him the tenth Russian general to die in the Ukraine.