Syrians help defend Ukraine against Russia, whose troops are now led by their brutal commander Dvornikov UkraineRussiaWar
“Syrians have lived the shelling, killing and displacement brought on them by Russian forces.”
Russia announced that it had appointed Alexander Dvornikov, commander of Russia’s forces in Syria in 2016, as the new leader of its ground forces in Ukraine. He is Russia’s first central commander on the ground there, sent in to bring control to an attack plan that has been seen as haphazard at best.
Now beginning his fifth decade as a military officer, General Dvornikov, 60, has been described as an “old school” general and a “blood and soil nationalist,” the
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