Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, may be abroad.
The head of state said this during a conversation with military correspondents, responding to Alexander Sladkov’s question.
“I know. I think I know,” the president noted, in particular, when asked where Zaluzhny was. Putin added that one could ask the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces himself about this, “but for that you have to switch to a foreign language.” “It seems to me that he is abroad. But I could be wrong,” Putin concluded.
In May, media reports emerged about Zaluzhny being seriously wounded. Ukraine’s defence ministry denied the information, but Zaluzhniy has not appeared in public for a long time and refused to participate in a NATO committee meeting at the level of chiefs of general staff “even in a video conference format” because of the “tense operational situation” in Ukraine.
At the same time, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, told journalists that the Russian authorities were receiving information about Zaluzhnyy’s health condition but did not want to disclose anything. Later, a video of the commander-in-chief recorded on 25 May appeared in the media, and the next day a new military boat was inducted into the country’s navy in his presence.
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