Valery Gerasimov, the most senior general in Russia, appeared in a video giving orders to underlings in his first public appearance since a failed Wagner mutiny that called for his removal.
mutiny last month that called for his removal.
Moscow’s Defense Ministry said the footage showed Gerasimov on Sunday and described him as the chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces and commander of the Kremlin’s forces in Ukraine—the positions he had before the armed rebellion in June.
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