Day: January 6, 2024

“I, let’s just say, do not have information that confirms this,” Budanov said on a telethon on Friday evening.

Earlier, information appeared on the network that the alleged chief of the russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov allegedly was killed in Crimea during the Ukrainian attack on January 4.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Defense Forces of Ukraine confirmed the missile strike on russian army targets in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea on Thursday, January 4.

On the evening of Thursday, January 4, several explosions thundered in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol and Yevpatoria.

At the same time, the occupiers rushed to declare the alleged “destruction of ten Ukrainian missiles” in the sky over the peninsula.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting at the Pentagon on Nov. 22. (Cliff Owen/AP)

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday night following complications from an elective medical procedure, the Pentagon announced Friday.

“He is recovering well and is expecting to resume his full duties today,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson, said in a statement.

The Pentagon statement did not specify what the elective procedure was that led to complications.

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks was “prepared to act for and exercise the powers of the secretary, if required,” according to the statement.

Austin, 70, is not the first senior Pentagon leader to be hospitalized in recent months. Gen. Eric Smith, commandant of the Marine Corps, suffered a heart attack on Oct. 29 and was in a Washington hospital for more than two weeks.