The Russia-Ukraine war, which can be described as a great spectacle in the history of modern warfare, is full of all kinds of gossip and unverifiable rumors.
These rumors or rumors are almost all about the life and death of important military leaders of Russia and Ukraine, for the simple reason that they often disappear from the public eye for a long time without reason, that is, they disappear.
And whether they went to **, whether they died or lived, no one clarified, and no one said clearly. Even the officials of both sides are vague and idiomatic rhetoric, which is foggy and brain-burning.
The most amazing thing is that some of the rumored dead or seriously injured in the war were later brought to the public intact. But there has never been any explanation as to why we disappeared for so long.
And some, but there is no news again, it is the real life without seeing people, dead without seeing corpses.
There are many of these people, such as the first 8 Russian generals who were rumored to have died on the battlefield, and later basically appeared in front of the public. Another example is the question of the life and death of the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Zaluzhny, who was rumored a while ago, after a long wait, as he himself reappeared to announce the previous news about his injury or death, which is all unbounded rumors and speculations.
And the most popular missing senior general recently is none other than the chief of the Russian General Staff, General Gerasimov.
Since December 29, 2023, General Gerasimov has not appeared in front of the public, and even several extremely important meetings in Russia, according to the usual schedule, General Gerasimov who should have appeared at the conference table are still nowhere to be seen.
And this is not the first time for General Gerasimov.
In the first half of 2022, there were rumors that General Gerasimov was seriously injured on the battlefield in Ukraine, and he also did not show up for a long time, and there was no explanation, so various versions of the statement circulated on the Internet.
Of course, General Gerasimov eventually appeared intact and healthy. At that time, the fans and fans of General Gerasimov finally breathed a sigh of relief, it was good to be alive!
This time, the general, who is known for his charming smile, has disappeared from the world again.
On January 4, 2024, two Russian military bases and command posts in Crimea were attacked by Ukraine by surprise and on a large scale.
And at the time of the attack there, it was rumored that General Gerasimov was in the Russian command post there, and the command post had been badly damaged in the Ukrainian attack, and it was no different from being gone.
In the aftermath of the attack, some Ukrainian social media said that General Gerasimov had been killed in the attack.
Perhaps, the Ukrainian report is still for propaganda purposes, and the truth has not been confirmed, although General Gerasimov has not appeared in public again until now.
What is amazing is that the Ukrainian officials and the Russian officials also maintain a unanimous silence on the question of whether General Gerasimov is killed, without explaining or explaining, whatever you guess.
Poor General Gerasimov, the legendary general who was once famous for his smile, disappeared again, and his life and death were uncertain.
General Gerasimov, a Russian Tatar, was born in Kazan on September 8, 1955, and graduated from three Russian military academies, including the Kazan Higher Command School of the Tank Forces, the Military Academy of the Armored Forces and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. It is very coincidental that Gerasimov graduated from all three schools with an interval of 10 years, and the years all have "7", which are 1997. General Gerasimov, as expected, is a figure with a bit of a saying.
General Gerasimov, who does not have a distinguished family background, is a typical example of relying on his own ability to be promoted step by step from a junior officer, and in 1998 he became the chief of staff and deputy commander of the 58th Army of the North Caucasus Military District.
Gerasimov was finally able to "get out of the circle", or his unusually outstanding performance in the second Chechen war, which impressed the Russian leadership. The reason why Kadyrov Jr. is obedient to Putin is Gerasimov's great credit.
Since then, Gerasimov has been promoted very quickly in the army, all the way to 2012, when he was finally appointed chief of the General Staff of the Russian army and first deputy minister of defense. This is a position he has held for 10 years.
General Gerasimov is one of the promoters of the modernization of the Russian army and the inventor of the "Gerasimov tactic". The reason why Russia was able to take Crimea without blood in 2014 was the masterpiece of General Gerasimov.
If Ukraine's statement that Gerasimov was killed in the bombing of Crimea is true, for General Gerasimov, it is really Crimea and Crimea.
Of course, maybe all this is a smokescreen, and General Gerasimov is secretly planning something big.
In fact, General Gerasimov was a truly capable military man, who, as Zaluzhny put it, was "a formidable and difficult enemy." ”
Perhaps, making everyone unclear about his life and death is also one of his "difficult" points, right?
So, General Gerasimov, what exactly are you a**? Your fans are worried, come out quickly.