Russia's most senior general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, was shown ordering subordinates to destroy Ukrainian missile sites in a video released on Monday, his first appearance in public since a failed June 24 mutiny by the Wagner Group. Sitting in a military command room on a white leather seat chairing a meeting with a top generals, some on a video call, Gerasimov, 67, was shown giving orders, including to Russia's powerful military intelligence service (GRU). The Defense Ministry said the footage showed Gerasimov at a meeting on Sunday. It described him as chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces and commander of Moscow's forces in Ukraine, the positions he held before the mutiny. (Reuters)