Putin released Gerasimov: "Bucha's butcher" - media (photo) is assigned to his place
According to the media, Gerasimov was removed from the post of commander of the Russian army less than six months after his appointment. He was replaced by Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky. The decision to release Gerasimov was made just a few weeks after the armed uprising of the Wagner PEC against the Putin regime, which was triggered by Yevgeny Prigogin - the founder of the mercenary group and a close person in the Russian president.
In addition, the Daily Mail writes that the removal of Gerasimov from office may be related to NATO Summit this week, which is expected to strengthen Ukraine's support by the West, and US President Joe Baiden's decision to sanction of Kyiv bombs. It should be noted that there was no official information on the release of Valery Gerasimov from his post. Mikhail Teplinsky-Russian Colonel-General, Commander of the Air Force and Hero of the Russian Federation. He is a native of Ukraine.
Teplinsky was born on January 9, 1969 in Mospine, Donetsk region. In 1991 he graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne College. He participated in the Transnistrian conflict, the first and second Chechen wars, the fighting of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Syria. In June 2023, the VSC wrote that Teplinsky was a high probability of combat actions near Ilovaysk in the summer of 2014 and was the author of the so -called "Ilovay boiler".
And in February 2023, the official journal of the European Union published information that Teplinsky was directly at the site of the shooting of Bucha residents. Back in December 2022, the Colonel General came under the sanctions of the United Kingdom. In addition, on February 25, 2023 it was included in the sanction list of all EU countries. Teplinsky is also under sanctions in Ukraine and New Zealand.
We will remind, on July 5 it became known that after more than 10 years of work he released the CEO of TASS. Sergey Mikhailov has been heading the propaganda agency since 2012. The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces assumed that he was punished as not committed enough by Vladimir Putin for the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigogine. In addition, in the middle of June 2023, "Focus" wrote that the Kremlin had selected replacement in places of liberated shoig and Gerasimov.