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[Regnum] The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has filed new charges in absentia against Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov. The Ukrainian agency reported this on its Telegram channel on August 24.
The suspicion was brought against him following a massive attack on Kyiv on the night of July 2, 2026. According to Ukrainian investigators, Gerasimov personally commanded the attack.
This is the third charge brought against Gerasimov by the SBU. Ukraine announced the previous one on July 3, also in connection with the attack on Kyiv. And in 2015, the SBU placed the Chief of the General Staff on the wanted list, allegedly in connection with the encirclement and defeat of Ukrainian forces near Ilovaisk.
On July 2, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive retaliatory strike in response to the Kyiv regime's terrorist attacks on Russia's civilian infrastructure. Long-range air-, land-, and sea-based precision-guided weapons, as well as attack drones, struck military industrial facilities and fuel and energy complex facilities in Kyiv and the Kyiv region used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, military airfield infrastructure in the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv regions was hit.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko called the attack on the Ukrainian capital on the night of July 2 the most massive since the start of the special military operation. He said damage was recorded in all districts of the city.
Earlier, the SBU issued charges against two Russian military commanders for shelling Ukraine's critical infrastructure. These are Sergei Kobylash, commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces' Long-Range Aviation, and Admiral Igor Osipov, former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The SBU accuses the former of shelling Tupolev missile carriers, and the latter of ordering Kalibr strikes from February 24 to August 10.