On September 9, Chinese the most important international military news on the Internet, and there is no doubt that a "big fish" was caught in the recent Kherson counterattack of the Ukrainian army - Lieutenant General Andrei Szychevov, commander of the Western Military District of Russia.
Some tweets on the Internet have played a very eye-catching headline of "The fake lieutenant colonel turned out to be a general, and the Russian and Western Army Group was captured", and the network also gave considerable traffic, becoming a 10W+ "leopard text".
It is reported that the Ukrainian military has now confirmed that the Russian officer in the uniform of the lieutenant colonel who was captured a few weeks ago was Lieutenant General Andrei Sitchevoy, commander of the Russian Western Bloc.
From the photos carried on Twitter and uploaded to the Chinese network, the captured lieutenant colonel and Lieutenant General Szczevoy, the facial features of the two people, are extremely similar. No wonder many netizens think that it may be the same person, and this time the Russian army is a big mess.
But there were also different opinions, at least Besonov, the first deputy minister of information in Donetsk, after seeing the photos on the Internet, explicitly told the media reporter: "No, it is not him (Lieutenant General Andrei Szychevov). ”
If the news of the Chinese network on September 9 is true, it will be the highest rank field commander of the Russian army who has become a prisoner of the Ukrainian army since the outbreak of military conflict between Russia and Ukraine on February 24. He is also the highest-ranking general in the Russian army since World War II, captured by opponents.
In fact, from ancient times to the present, in the confrontation between the two armies, it is not uncommon for junior and intermediate field commanders to become prisoners of war of the other side, and even senior commanders at the general level to be captured.
War itself is extremely cruel and bloody, not only soldiers will be killed and wounded in battle and become prisoners, but also officers at all levels are not spared, and it is generally normal to be captured by war casualties, and there is no fuss.
The current Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, in the eyes of the outside world, is different, is a huge "big Mao", took the initiative to take special military action against the weak "Ermao", more than 200,000 troops, under the cover of the air, from several roads at the same time attacked "Ermao" and entered the territory of Ukraine to fight.
In the eyes of the outside world, this war will have no suspense, under the strong attack of "Big Mao", the battlefield will show a one-sided situation, the Kiev regime will soon fall, and some Western countries are even ready to welcome the exile government headed by the "driver".
The outside world has obviously underestimated the will to resist and fighting spirit of the "Ermao", and with the assistance of a large amount of funds and arms from the West, the "Ermao" who has taken active defensive measures has killed and injured the attacking "Damao".
At present, whether the officer of the Russian army who was captured by the Ukrainian army is a lieutenant colonel or a lieutenant general, the outside world has not obtained relevant information from the Russian military. The relevant real situation still needs to be verified by both sides of the battle.
For the Chinese the News that the Ukrainian army that went viral on the Internet captured a Russian lieutenant general is true or false, and it seems that the bullets will have to fly for a while, and perhaps time will give the final answer.