Russia has tapped a new Ukraine war commander to take centralized control of the next phase of battle. U.S. officials don’t see one man making a difference in Moscow’s prospects.
for Ukrainian civilians. U.S. officials don’t see one man making a difference in Moscow’s prospects.
But the White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan said, “No appointment of any general can erase the fact that Russia has already faced a strategic failure in Ukraine.” Dvornikov is a career military officer and has steadily risen through the ranks after starting as a platoon commander in 1982. He fought during the second war in Chechnya and took several top positions before being placed in charge of the Russian troops in Syria in 2015.
Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayoush, a Syrian army defector, said Sunday that while the situation in Syria is different from Ukraine because the Russian military was fighting insurgent groups and not Ukraine’s professional army, he expects a similar “scorched-earth” strategy. The last major Russian-backed offensive in Syria lasted several months, until March 2020, when a truce was reached between Russia and Turkey, which supported rival sides.
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