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Valerii Gerasimov, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, appeared in public outside Russia for the first time after «Prigozhyn’s plot». Russian propagandists and Ukrainian media reported on August 1, 2023 that Gerasimov visited the forward command center of the Russian occupation army in Zaporizhzhia region.
The Center for Journalist Investigations identified the whereabouts of the bunker for Gerasimov and determined the date when he visited temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.