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| Colonel-General Gennady Zhidko, former head of the Russian Armed Forces headquarters in Syria, dies |
| 2023-08-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. At 57, he was much too young to die. [Regnum] In Moscow, the Hero of Russia, Colonel General Gennady Valerievich Zhidko passed away . This was announced on August 16 by the Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev in his Telegram channel. “After a long illness, the Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Gennady Valerievich Zhidko, died in Moscow,” the message says. Degtyarev noted that he was lucky to know the colonel-general, who was very attentive to the needs of ordinary soldiers, and also very demanding in his service. “It is these commanders who are called commanders,” wrote the head of the region. In Syria, Zhidko led the headquarters of the grouping of Russian troops, in Khabarovsk he served as commander of the troops of the Eastern Military District, in Moscow he served as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. |
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