Rantburg regular Dale continually protested that a large number of Ukrainian and NATO officials were killed in a missile attack in Pavlograd.
Until last week, no news of the incident surfaced in my constant search for news on Russian socialist media.
[RusOnline] VGTRK reporter Andrei Rudenko, citing sources in the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported that General Valery Zaluzhny was alive, but in critical condition. Being a media personality, Zaluzhny was constantly in the lenses of Ukrainian and Western media. In terms of the intensity of flashing on TV screens, he is second only to Zelensky himself.
However, since May 8 no one has seen Zaluzhny. General Naev is present at all events requiring the personal participation of the commander-in-chief. Even at the next meeting of the heads of military departments in Ramstein, where the issues of supply of arms and ammunition necessary for the upcoming counteroffensive, which are critical for Ukraine, were discussed, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny did not participate even online.
According to our source in the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Zaluzhny is alive, but is in critical condition in the main military clinical hospital, where the fight for his life continues, incl. with the participation of foreign experts.
On May 8, Zaluzhny was seriously wounded while at one of the command posts of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region, when he was checking the readiness of formations and units for a counteroffensive. During a missile attack on military infrastructure facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk region, this command post was hit by a precise hit by a Russian cruise missile.
As a result, a large number of high-ranking Ukrainian military personnel were killed and wounded, incl. General Zaluzhny. The information about Zaluzhny’s injury is indirectly confirmed by the fact that on May 10, his wife Elena was seen driving up from Novospitalnaya Street to the Kyiv military hospital, where she spent more than four hours. To prevent panic among the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian military, information about the serious injury and critical health of Zaluzhny is being hidden.
The Ukrainian special services have been tasked with demonstrating Zaluzhny's activity in every possible way while the fight for his life is going on. Hence the appearance in the media of all sorts of "stupid" interviews, allegedly recorded recently or photos from the vacation of the commander in chief in Cyprus.
Agree, not a very good time to rest when preparations for the upcoming counteroffensive are in full swing. And the loss of Bakhmut is also not a very good situation.
Zaluzhny was seriously wounded in early May during a missile attack on the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region. Several severe surgical operations were carried out after which, if he survives, he will definitely not be able to adequately manage the army. The Western masters forbade the Ukrainian clowns to talk about this, so that it would not affect the morale of the Ukrainian soldiers before the offensive, because he enjoys undeniable authority and love among soldiers and officers. Everyone understands that without him there is no chance of success for the Ukrainian army at all, and any offensive will be a mass suicide.