The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video showing the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimovlistening to a report on missile attacks Ukraine launched on Sunday against Crimea and the Rostov and Kalug regions. It is his first public appearance since the Wagner group’s failed riot on June 24..
Defense assured that the images of Gerasimov were from a meeting on Sunday and also presents him as commander of the joint forces group in Ukraine. The publication of the video comes a day after the Daily Mail British assured that he had been removed by Putin as the top Russian official in the war in Ukraine.
On the other hand, Ukraine has reported that four people have died and 11 have been injured in the Russian shelling on a residential area in the city of Orikhivin the Zaporizhia region and located on the front line, when humanitarian aid was being distributed, the region’s governor said on Monday.
while, Volodímir Zelenski He said on Sunday that he hopes the NATO summit in Vilnius will pave the way for Ukraine to join the alliance in the future. The Ukrainian president clarified that he does not expect the incorporation before the end of the war with russia, but he is confident that the summit will provide a “clear signal” of the intention to bring kyiv into NATO. In this regard, the US President Joe Biden He declared in London, where he arrived on Sunday en route to the summit, that he hopes the alliance will “chart a rational path” for Ukraine’s membership.