New Commander in the Russian Army Army Lieutenant General Mordvicov

Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvicov, who stood out in critical battles during the War in Ukraine, assumed the duties of the Russian Army Army. Born in 1976 in the then Soviet Kazakhstan, Mordvicov was decorated last year as the “hero of the Russian Federation”, the highest distinction in Russia. He had served as head of the Central Military District, and in the spring of 2022 he led the operations that led to the tradition of the Ukrainian forces which resisted the Azovstall steelworks, after a siege of about 80 days in Mariupol, South Ukraine. In 2024 he led the Russian troops who occupied the strategic city of Avdivka in the Donetsk Region, as well as other important areas. Mordvicov succeeds 69 -year -old General Oreg Saliukov, who has been appointed Deputy Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, a consulting body that regularly meets President Putin on national security issues. Source: RES
Source: News Beast

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