I am not surprised to see what happened in Kyiv this morning. Surovikin is ruthless, he has very little respect for human life.'"Russian forces led by him have targeted places where people live, work and study, including homes, schools, hospitals, and markets in Syria."
'While working on a combat mission in Syria, for a minute we did not forget that we are defending Russia.'
The first two statements above are about Sergei Surovikin, the new Russian general appointed to command the Russian army in the Ukraine war. The third statement is from Surovikin himself, which shows the extent to which he is obsessed with the cause of Russia.
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Ukraine's counterattack and Putin handed over the command of the war to the new general
On September 8, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the appointment of 55-year-old General Sergei Surovikin as the overall commander of the Russian military in Ukraine. However, it was not said who Surovikin had replaced. For the first time in the Ukraine war that began on 24 February, a single commander has been officially appointed for the entire Russian army. Surovikin was earlier commanding the Russian Air Force.
In April, nearly two months after the start of the Ukraine war, a British Military Intelligence report claimed that the command of the military operation against Ukraine had been handed over to Russian General Alexander Dvornik. Dvornico is best known for his brutal operation in Syria in 2015. However, Russia never clarified who was in command of its campaign in Ukraine.
Putin's appointment of the new general comes at a time when Ukrainian forces have retaliated strongly in the past few days. Ukraine has liberated more than 6 thousand kilometers from Russian occupation, especially in the Kharkiv province in the northeast. At the same time, Ukraine has also recaptured some areas of Kherson province in the south and the Lyman transport hub in eastern Ukraine.
Putin has appointed one of Russia's most talked-about generals, Sergei Surovikin, to revive the Russian military's campaign in the war against Ukraine.
Surovikin is one of Russia's most talked-about generals and has been recognized in Russia as a general who left a mark in many of the country's major military operations.
Surovikin was born on 11 October 1966 in the city of Novosibirsk, Siberia. Surovikin was born in the era when Russia was the Soviet Union.
Surovikin joined the Soviet Army in 1987, and his first assignment was in Spetsnaz, a unit of the Soviet-era Russian Army. He joined the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s as part of his first major mission.
The credit for the formation of the Special Military Police under the Russian Army also goes to Surovikin. From 2013 to 2017 Surovikin was the commander of the Eastern Military District.
Surovikin, who was part of the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s, was also involved in Russian military action against Islamic separatists in Chechnya in 2004.
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