"Extraordinary Step": Washington asked Kyiv not to kill the head of the Gerasimov Gerasimov Gerasimova - NYT

In the US, they knew about Valery Gerasimov's plans to visit occupation troops in Ukraine. According to journalists, the Americans were late with the warning - the Armed Forces began the attack on the positions of the general. The United States tried to prevent the Kill of the Chief of the General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov during his arrival in the war zone in Ukraine. This is stated in the investigation of The New York Times about the full -scale war of Russia in Ukraine.

American officials learned about Gerasimov's plans to visit occupation troops, but hid this information from the Ukrainian command, the authors say. The newspaper sources surveyed have declared the United States to kill General Gerasimov. Such a step could lead to a sharp military escalation, Americans did not want to provoke a war between the States and the Russian Federation, the newspaper says.

The Ukrainian military learned about Valery Gerasimov's trip by putting the Americans in hopelessness. Washington took an extraordinary step and asked to cancel the attack. "We told them not to do this. We told them literally," Hey, it is too, "one of the high -ranking authorities said. Dozens of Russians were killed as a result of the impact, but Gerasimov was not one of them. After that, the Russian warlords cut the visits to the front, "-said in the investigation.