Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov (center) ©Pavel Gerasimov / Sputnik © Sputnik
* Valery Gerasimov, Russian army's chief of staff, was flown out of Izyum near Kharkiv with shrapnel wounds
* The top military commander had been sent to the region to take personal control of push to grab territory
* Conflict in the region has intensified even further in recent weeks amid Russia's assault in eastern Ukraine
* Kharviv is also where Russia's ninth general, Andrei Simonov, 55, was killed in a Ukrainian attack yesterday
* Gerasimov was taken to Belgorod, where Russian military site was hit today in a suspected Ukrainian strike
* Meanwhile in Mariupol, around 100 Ukrainian civilians have been evacuated from Azovstal steel plant
* The city has been decimated by Russian airstrikes and around 1,000 civilians remain trapped in the plant
* A Ukrainian university claimed the cost of rebuilding the nation now stands at more than £70billion
Vladimir Putin's top military commander has been flown out of the war zone with shrapnel wounds after being to sent to Ukraine by the Russian president to secure victory, a former Russian internal affairs minister has claimed.
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of the Russian army, was today wounded in Izyum in Ukraine's Kharviv region, which has been at the centre of intense fighting since Russia's invasion.
Putin had sent Gerasimov to the region to take personal control of his push to grab territory in eastern Ukraine, after the Russian army abandoned its plans to take Kyiv at the end of March in favour of a concentrated assault on the Donbas region of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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WNU Editor: New reports are saying that he had dodged the attack that allegedly wounded him .... Russia’s highest-ranking general dodges Ukraine attack in secret trip to front line (NYPost).
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