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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a new general to lead the war in Ukraine, as his military changed plans after failing to take Kiev.
CNN reports that Army General Alexander Dvornikov, commander of Russia’s Southern Military District, has been named head of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
A European official told CNN that this means that the war for the Russians is going badly so they should do something different, so warnings of a possible attack in the Donbas region seem to be getting closer.
Dvornikov, 60, was the first commander of Russia’s military operations in Syria after Putin sent troops there in September 2015 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. During Dvornikov’s command in Syria from September 2015 to June 2016, Russian planes supported the Assad regime and its allies as they besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo, bombing densely populated neighborhoods and inflicting heavy civilian casualties. The city fell into the hands of Syrian government forces in December 2016.
Russian forces have used a similarly harsh approach in parts of Ukraine, hitting apartment buildings in major cities and destroying most of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
U.S. intelligence analysts and officials say Russian generals intend to present Putin with tangible progress on the battlefield ahead of Victory Day on May 9, when Russia observes the defeat of Nazi Germany and traditionally remembers the event with a parade in Moscow on Red Square.
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