Russia’s Offensive is Make or Break for General Behind Putin’s Plan
General Valery Gerasimov is the longest-serving chief of Russia’s General Staff—the country’s most senior military official—of the post-Soviet era. Since 2012, Gerasimov has headed a military that many deemed the second most potent in the world.
The veil of competence was lifted after February 24, 2022, when Russian tanks again rolled into Ukraine.
One year later, the Russian military is depleted and humiliated, though still capable of mass destruction of Ukrainian settlements and lives.
Since early January, Gerasimov—who Ukraine claimed was wounded in an artillery strike in April—has been in command of Vladimir Putin’s gambit, the fourth general overseeing the Kremlin’s “special military operation” since it began.
Another failure will forever blot the 67-year-old’s legacy.
Experts told Newsweek that even Putin’s most senior commander would struggle to salvage victory from a war characterized by systemic Russian failures.
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