Putin recently spoke at the Enlarged Committee of the Ministry of Defense, summarizing the "military achievements" of 2023, vigorously praising the performance of the Russian army in the fight against Ukraine, and declaring that "our army has the initiative and can decide on its own actions", while also expressing that the myth of the invulnerability of Western military equipment has been shattered. However, just as he was announcing his proud achievements, there was heart-wrenching news - another general had been attacked. According to the Ukrainian ukr ** December 20**, the commander of the 6th Army of the Western Military District of Russia, General Alexander Peryazev, was attacked and wounded near Limanpersh, Kupyan, Kharkiv region. The Russian 6th Army has 2 infantry brigades, 1 artillery brigade and 1 missile brigade, which are stationed in St. Petersburg and other places, and are responsible for defending Russia's second largest city and coastal areas.
At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war in March 2022, due to the huge losses suffered by the Russian army, the number of fighters in its subordinate units was reduced to more than 2,000 people, and the former commander of the 6th Army, General Vladislav Yershov, was forced to **. He was succeeded by General Alexander Peryazev, an experienced former deputy head of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Russian Armed Forces. According to preliminary disclosures, General Peryazev was conscious when he was wounded near Limanpelsh. Although Ukraine did not specify the cause of General Peryazev's injury, the other day Ukrainian partisans blew up a car carrying Russian officers, and the time and place of the attack highly coincided with the attack on General Peryazev.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for almost two years, during which many high-ranking generals have been killed or injured, such as on the evening of November 30, Greece's Pentapostagma** reported that General Vladimir Zavatsky, a 45-year-old senior Russian officer and deputy commander of the 14th Army, was killed by landmines** in Kherson. According to the governor of the Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev, General Zavatsky became the seventh high-ranking general to die on the front lines of the Russian-Ukrainian war. According to ** statistics, four Russian generals have been killed in the first four months since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine. In addition, in the summer of 2003, two more generals of the Russian army died. And the sixth general to be killed was Lieutenant General Oleg Chukov, who was tragically killed in an attack on a hotel in Berdyansk where he received Russian military commanders.
It is worth noting that on December 13, the latest intelligence submitted by the CIA to Congress indicated that there were 3150,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in Ukraine, and 2,200 tanks were destroyed. The CIA report notes that such serious losses led to a 18-year setback in the process of modernizing the Russian army. Of course, there is also the possibility that Ukraine has created and spread disinformation with the aim of shaking the morale of the Russian military.