The head of the Ukrainian armed forces has been out of the public eye since early May
The commander-in-chief of Kiev’s armed forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, whose whereabouts have been the subject of speculation in recent weeks, could be outside Ukraine, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has suggested.
On Sunday, the Rossiya 1 broadcaster published a clip of Putin speaking about the fate of Ukraine’s top general during his meeting with Russian military correspondents and bloggers at the Kremlin earlier this week.
“Where is he, Zalushny? I know. I think I know,” the Russian president told the reporters. He advised them to ask Zalushny himself about this, but warned that “one would need to switch to a foreign language to do so.”
“I think he’s abroad,” Putin clarified, but added that he “might be wrong” about it.
Speculation about Zaluzhny’s whereabouts emerged after he missed a high-profile NATO meeting on May 10. According to the chairman of…
