Valery Gerasimov
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General of the Army Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov is a Russian military officer who has been the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and first deputy minister of defense since 2012.
Official portrait, 2013
General Gerasimov leading a Victory Day parade in Moscow in a ZiL 41044, May 2011
Gerasimov with President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, 9 November 2012
Gerasimov (right), Joseph Dunford (left) and Chief of the Turkish General Staff Hulusi Akar (middle) at a meeting to discuss their nations' operations in northern Syria, 6 March 2017
Russo-Ukrainian war
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The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed
Valery Gerasimov
…sovereignty and independence of Ukraine". In May 2014, Canada, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland added Gerasimov to their sanctions listed because of Russian interference in Ukraine and his responsibility for the massive Russian troop deployment next to the Russia–Ukraine border and his inability to reduce the tensions with Ukraine…
Anti terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine
A Russia backed rebel armored fighting vehicles convoy near Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, May 30, 2015
Bucha. Faces of War. Ukraine War Photo Exhibition 2023
Avdiivka after Russian bombing, 2023 05 23