Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Gerasimov
It is reported that a news article published by the " New York Times " on the 17th has aroused heated public opinion. The news is about the Ukrainian government's "attempt to assassinate high-level Russian military officials." Sources in the article stated that at the end of April this year, before the Russian Army General Gerasimov, the Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, secretly visited the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the intelligence had been intercepted by the United States in advance. However, the US military chose to refuse to inform the Zelenskiy government of this crucial piece of information because they were worried that Ukraine would use the piece of information to "do other things." However, Ukraine eventually learned of the intelligence, triggering a "warning" call from the United States.
The US media said he was "almost assassinated" during his visit.
The report mentioned that the United States clearly informed Ukraine that it must cancel all assassination plans against Gerasimov. The first reason is that the United States is worried that such a move will make the war get out of control and drag the United States into the water, causing them to directly conflict with the Russian army. This is what the Biden administration does not want to see. The second is that some people believe that Gerasimov "will not have a decisive impact on the situation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict" because he is not the commander-in-chief of this military operation and is just a senior officer of the Ministry of Defense. The assassination is meaningless. The United States did not disclose whether Ukraine listened to the warning or how the incident ended.
The Office of the President of Ukraine responded that "it has already taken action"
On the 18th, the Office of the President of Ukraine responded to the news of the "assassination of Gerasimov." Zelensky's adviser Alestovich said that they were indeed involved in the matter and launched an assassination attempt, but it was unsuccessful. At that time, Ukraine learned that Gerasimov was going to the front line, so it sent Ukrainian troops to shoot at the headquarters of the Russian military commander and killed dozens of Russian soldiers. However, Gerasimov had already left there at that time, so the assassination attempt failed. The US media previously believed that the assassination was "effective" because senior Russian military officials subsequently reduced many plans to visit the front line, which was enough to prove its deterrence.
During the Russia-Ukraine conflict, U.S. satellites mapped the deployment of Russian military command posts in Crimea in detail.
Some analysts said that a "strange" thing about this news is that "Americans wrote the first half, and Ukrainians wrote the second half." That is to say, the United States confirmed that they dissuaded Zelensky from carrying out this incident, but did not clearly state the result; the so-called "attack launch", "attempted attack" and "effective deterrence" were all explained by Ukraine. Some military observers believe that the authenticity of Ukraine's remarks is doubtful. First, it is "unimaginable" that they dare to go against the opinions of high-level US officials, and the consequences may be to lose all support and collapse the war situation; secondly, the Russian army's front line was superior in April, and sending a group of people to raid the Russian command post was more like "telling a story." This meant defeating multiple security forces, which was difficult to achieve based on Ukraine's combat effectiveness at the time.
Gerasimov once "laughed" happily during negotiations with Turkey
It is worth mentioning that this incident also reflected another serious problem: even during combat, the Russian army's intelligence confidentiality plan is very worrying. Because according to the news, it can be known that the US military has obtained the detailed address of the time, route and itinerary of the Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov's inspection of the front line, and will only warn Zelensky not to carry out the assassination if it is "certain of the assassination". Some commentators said: "The leakage of intelligence before the Russian military operation gave the Ukrainians enough time to prepare and suffered huge losses, but they still seemed not to be alert to it. Some even suspected that the entire top management of the Russian side had been infiltrated by the Americans. The United States knew every move of the Putin government. This cannot be described as 'serious'."
