The 67-year-old general Valery Gerasimov was placed in the position of commander of her forces of Russia in Ukrainewhich has sparked a backlash and created a big conversation about the combativeness of the Russian military.
Many of the nationalist bloggers who, with the permission of the Kremlin, criticize the conduct of the war, have blamed Gerasimov for the fact that a superpower’s army – supposedly modernized and rearmed at great cost over the past 15 years – failed so appreciably to subdue the its much smaller neighbor.
Critics in Ukraine, the West and even inside Russia have called the Russian armed forces simplistic, poorly prepared and equipped, slow to react and fragmented by disparate and often distant command structures.
The US State Department sanctioned him the day after the invasion of Ukraine, saying he was one of three senior Russians alongside Putin directly responsible for the war.
Nevertheless, Gerasimov sometimes speaks with US Army General Mark Miley, the chairman of the US Army Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Gerasimov was born on September 8, 1955 in Kazan and rose through the ranks after graduating from an armored school in 1977.
Source: News Beast
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