Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that it had appointed a new commander-in-chief of Russia’s armed forces stationed in Ukraine, General Serhiy Surovikin, Reuters reported.
Sergei Surovikin, the former commander of Russian operations in Syria, is “a notoriously corrupt and brutal general even by the standards of the Russian army, according to the British Ministry of Defence,” wrote Max Seddon, the Moscow-based editor of the Financial Times, on Twitter.
Another senior commander appeared in the Russian “special military operation”: Sergey Surovikin, the former commander of the Russian intervention in Syria.
He is known to be a corrupt and brutal general, even by the standards of the Russian army, the British Ministry of Defense reports. https://t.co/B93Zln0iW2
— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 8, 2022
The changes came after media reported this week that the commanders of two of Russia’s five military districts had been fired.
Who is Surovikin, the new commander of the “special operation”
“Army General Serhiy Surovikin has been appointed commander of a joint group of troops in the area of a special military operation” in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports in Telegram, AFP reports.
Surovikin, 55, is a veteran of Tajikistan’s civil war in the 1990s, the second Chechen war in the 2000s and the Russian intervention in Syria that began in 2015.
According to the July report of the Russian agency, he still headed the “South” group of forces in Ukraine.
The name of his predecessor was not officially disclosed, but according to Russian media, he is General Oleksandr Dvornikov, also a veteran of the Second Chechen War and the commander of Russian troops in Syria in 2015-2016.
This decision made public by Moscow – a rare fact – appeared after a series of crushing defeats suffered by the Russian army in Ukraine.
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