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Alexei Kim

Alexei Rostislavovich Kim (21 September 1958-) was a Russian Colonel-General who served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Alexei Rostislavovich Kim was born in 1958 to a Soviet Korean family, and he joined the Soviet Army in 1979 and served in the Soviet-Afghan War. He continued his career with the Russian Army, serving in the Tajik Civil War, the Second Chechen War, the Syrian Civil War, and the Russo-Ukrainian War; on 11 January 2023, he was appointed one of Valery Gerasimov's deputies in command of the Russian forces invading Ukraine.

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