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Russia's 'merciless' commander for Ukraine war and Monday's attack: Explained

 Russia's 'merciless' commander for Ukraine war and Monday's attack: Explained


Russo-Ukraine War: Sergei Surovikin is Russia's new commander in Ukraine.



Russo-Ukraine War: General Sergei Surovikin is the commander of all Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.


On Monday, Sergei Surovikin was written in Russia's shifted military strategy in missile attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Even though a severe backlash from Moscow was widely anticipated after the collapse of the bridge connecting Crimea, the bombing of Kyiv which has maintained a relative peace since June, out of the blue, was a bolt for Ukraine and the world. was.



Sergei Surovikin, appointed on Saturday as commander of Russia's invading forces in Ukraine, has quite a reputation—not a good one, of course. Military veterans who served in the Soviet Union's war with Afghanistan during the 1980s are notorious for ordering shots at pro-democracy protesters in Moscow during the Soviet Union's final days in 1991.


His resume also describes how he led the Russian military's intervention during the Syrian war in 2017, during which he was accused of overseeing bombings and chemical weapons attacks on opposition fighters.

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