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Sergey Surovikin
For the first time since the beginning of the war, the invading group in Ukraine has a commander, and this is General Sergei Surovikin.
Russian army general Sergei Surovikin was officially appointed commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine. This was stated on Saturday 8 October by the Russian Defense Ministry.
According to Russian media, Vladimir Putin personally called General Surovikin on his anniversary and appointed him commander.
It should be noted that for the first time since the beginning of the war, the group of Russian troops in Ukraine had a commander.
At the end of June 2022, Surovikin became the commander of the southern grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine. He led the offensive in the Golden and Gorsky Luhansk region. Before Ukraine, Surovikin was the commander of the Russian group in Syria, then in 2017 Putin appointed him head of the aerospace forces.
the day before Russia appoints the new head of the Eastern Military District. The new commander had previously marked himself in Chechnya and Syria, and also commanded Russian troops in occupied Donbas.
Recall that this week she was also nominated new commander of the Western Military District RF. They became Roman Berdnikov, who graduated from Kyiv Suvorov Military School in 1991.
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