Where have you been Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of the Russian army? He has literally disappeared since his last public appearance on February 27th. On that day, he didn’t seem enthusiastic about the order Wladimir Putin put nuclear deterrent forces on alert three days after the invasion of Ukraine. It’s at Sergei Beseda, The head of Russia’s services to Ukraine, reports Corriere della Sera, has been even worse since being placed under house arrest, journalists Andrei soldatov and Irina Borogan revealed.
Ironically, in March 2017, Gerasimov, who was then chief of staff for eight years, wrote an article about how his army was morphing “to wage a modern war.” His “modernization” of the armed forces In 2009, Russia began abandoning the “Soviet approach of the army, that is, with a large number of soldiers. Beginning that same year, he had the President invest $34 billion, part in the cyberwars technology sector and part in aviation. “There are now tools of a nonmilitary nature that are more effective than simple force of arms,” Gerasimov wrote.
But in the early days of the war in Ukraine, according to American intelligence, the general would have provided one misrepresentation the reality to Putin about the state of health of the Russian army, which is facing Ukrainian resistance precisely because he decided to shift to the ground forces.
