Posted on 05/01/2022 6:12:26 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin's top military commander has been flown out of the war zone with shrapnel wounds after being to sent to Ukraine by the Russian president to secure victory, a former Russian internal affairs minister has claimed.
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of the Russian army, was today wounded in Izyum in Ukraine's Kharviv region, which has been at the centre of intense fighting since Russia's invasion.
Putin had sent Gerasimov to the region to take personal control of his push to grab territory in eastern Ukraine, after the Russian army abandoned its plans to take Kyiv at the end of March in favour of a concentrated assault on the Donbas region of Donetsk and Luhansk.
An unofficial Russian source reported that Gerasimov sustained 'a shrapnel wound in the upper third of the right leg without a bone fracture.
'The shard was removed - there is no danger to life,' he said.
But Gerasimov's injury was severe enough to have him flown away from the frontlines and back to Russia to undergo further treatment, marking another embarrassing defeat for Putin's forces.
The chief of staff's injury came just one day after Russian Major General Andrei Simonov, 55, was killed in Kharkiv, according to an adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
He is Russia's ninth general to have been killed since the start of the invasion.
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bkmk
So... in considering the vast pantheon of fake news, you're saying the Daily Mail is less fake? Maybe just 75% fake?
Sure.
I agree. That's why I detest both dictators in this fight. And the globalists who pushed it.
Just a flesh wound!
News needs to be checked through the “Disinformation Governance Board”.
“On a sad note, I never knew we had so many bloodthirsty posters on FR until February 2022. All of these keyboard warriors are trying to usher in WWIII because of their inexplicable hatred for Putin and now all Russians. SMDH.”
We’d feel much better about you folks if you’d take your army and go home. The daily threats to start a nuclear war aren’t exactly instilling warm fuzzy feelings in us either.
You Russians want us to be friendly with you then maybe you ought to start acting friendly. Until such time we’ll be arming the Ukies and cheering them on as they slaughter your generals and their troops.
Threatened with, anyway. They always found away around it with Hogan’s help.
I understand that Putin needs to keep sending his Generals to the front or his troops won’t fight.
You’ve got it backwards. The entire western world outside of a few fringe crazies want Russian invaders to leave Ukraine. Either toes up or on their feet. We do don’t care which way it is.
OTOH, you have Putinist Russia and its useful idiots in the west who fantasize ad nauseum about WW3. The level intellectual laziness is just pathetic there. “SMDH.”
The truth is always somewhere in between, and you have to use life experience and common sense to discern what is likely true and false.
Agree. It’s always hilarious to see Putinsts dismiss reports from the DM when Russia sources confirm them. Many of these dead Russian generals have had public funerals, etc. It’s sad to see so-called conservatives be so intellectually lazy. I thought we were better than that.
This is, as is typical, just the DM printing a press release or other statement from a source, in this case the Ukrainian MOD, a MOD spokesman, and a third party media organization. And they clearly say so. Every newspaper on earth does the same things. They have also printed press releases from Russian official sources.
Why do you think the DM is somehow making this up? Your beef is with their sources.
Very true.
The reaction to bringing up pro-Trump or pro-conservative stories on the DM is arm-waving. We are not dealing with serious people.
There is nothing fake about what the DM is doing here. Its just reporting what others are saying. This may be “fake news” but its coming from “official” sources. The Ukrainian MOD may be lying. But they may not be.
There are ways of slanting news, such as selecting some statements from certain sources but ignoring others. The US MSM are masters of that. The DM is a major counter to the US MSM slant of the news because it does carry a lot of those things excluded by the US MSM. Why do you not understand that?
Its way more complete. Its a corrective to a degree to the US MSM selectivity in coverage.
You will not find a newspaper that prints the absolute truth with a divine perspective as to what the information it carries MEANS. That is, what is more important and what is less, what is a complete and sane worldview and what isnt. Humans are not capable of that.
Seems to me the ones pushing for Russia are nuke crazy. Russia did the invading. Not Ukraine.
He’s only slightly dead! Don’t worry!
I disagree with that sen9. Here in Poland, people hate Pu7, but not the Russian 3. The Russians have been brainwashed and persecuted by their own rulers for a long time.
They are deserving of sympathy, not hatred.
Death to Putin, the destroyer of Russia and Ukraine
I’ve just learned over the years not to fall for whatever the mainstream news is selling without doing my homework first. In my research, I learned about the horrendous treatment the Ukrainians living in the Donbass were forced to endure for 8 years by the Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian Army. It turned my stomach and made me see this war through different eyes.
My conclusion is that the Ukrainians are no better than the Russians. I’m not rooting for either side and just want the death and destruction to stop. That’s where we differ. You obviously believe Ukraine actually has a chance to win. 🤣
I wish Freepers loved America as much as they love Putin.
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