On Wednesday, January 11, Russia again replaced the commander of its attack in Ukraine, this time appointing the Chief of the Defense Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, the Ministry of Defense reports.
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The ministry statement said that Valery Gerasimov becomes “commander of the joint forces groupHe was deployed in Ukraine to replace Sergey Surovikin, who will lead the operations for barely three months. “The increase in the level of the command of the special operation (in Ukraine) is connected with the need to expand the range of missions to be carried out, to implement closer interaction between the components of the armed forces.“, the ministry explained.
The former commander is now the deputy
He elaborates that Valery Gerasimov will have generals Sergey Surovikin, Oleg Saliukov and Alexei Kim as assistants. The notorious Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of troops in Ukraine last October to fix the situation of the Russian army, which was suffering setbacks in the Kharkiv (Northeast) and Kherson (South) regions due to the Ukrainian offensive. .
It was Sergei Surovikin in particular who proposed and organized the withdrawal of Russian troops from the city of Kherson in early November, a major setback for the Kremlin. Since then, the front has generally stabilized, with the exception of the Bakhmut region, Donetsk Oblast (East), a town that the Russian army and the Wagner paramilitary group have been trying to capture for months. Faced with these difficulties on the ground, Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of 300,000 reservists and the bombing of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
His predecessor’s “questionable” post
According to Telegram channel Rybar, one of the main sources on the pro-Kremlin conflict with one million subscribers, “Worth itRussia’s success in the Bakhmut sector, where the Wagner group’s warlords are mainly active, may thus ultimately pass to General Guerasimov.
According to Raibar, Sergey Surovikin has a record.suspicious“Withdrawal from Kherson, bombings on energy of Ukraine”.which did not cause it to collapse“, As well as “the tragedyThe attack on Makiivka, which killed at least 89 Russian soldiers, and problems related to the mobilization of Russian reservists.
“time will show“if”indestructible“General Valery Gerasimov will finally appear”blackmailand will in turn be removed upon another failure, Rybar adds.
Source: Le Figaro
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