NYT spoke about the prevention of an attack on the head of the Russian General Staff in Washington.
Washington captures Ukraine from a strike on a facility on the territory of the country, in which, according to intelligence data, the head of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov is located. About it writes The New York Times, citing anonymous sources.
According to the publication, American intelligence in the spring about the upcoming trip of Gerasimov to the front in Ukraine, but due to tension hides this information from Kyiv. However, this was not possible. Earlier, the Western media received information that part of the intelligence information received by NATO about the Russian army in Ukraine and with other Ukrainian citizens is received nearby in real time.
According to the material, Washington believes that Ukraine does not attack the headquarters where Gerasimov is located. In Kyiv, they said that the blow had already been delivered. Sources of the newspaper explain the appearance of American eyewitnesses with fears that the death of the head of the General Staff, which is part of the Russian Security Council, saw the appearance of war in Russia and the United States.
The attack on the headquarters in Izyum, which, presumably, could Alieksik Gerasimov, became known in early May. It was made sure that the general of the army had come personally to lead the offensive. It was stated that the commander could have been wounded during the Ukrainian strike, no confirmation of this was published.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby then said that Washington does not provide intelligence on the location of Russia’s higher education institutions.
- Gerasimov, 67, has been infected by the Russian General Staff since 2012. Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian troops Valery Zaluzhny in September in an interview with Time magazine called the general the main military theorist. “I keep thinking that all military science is surrounded in Russia,” said said is he. – I learned from him. I read everything he ever wrote.”
- The NYT material says that Russian President Vladimir Putin back in March spoke soon about recognizing the failure of the Russian army. During a meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in early March, Putin is said to have said the war would be “much more difficult than expected.”