Reshuffle of russian forces in ukraine involved president vladimir putin replacing sergei surovikin with chief of the general staff valery gerasimov. gen surovikin was overseeing moscow’s brutal attacks on ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and has been appointed as gen gerasimov’s deputy. the decision to replace gen surovikin was made to improve the quality and effectiveness of the management of russian forces.
Reshuffle occurred on wednesday, and the fall of the strategic town of soledar in eastern ukraine may have been a result of the reshuffle. yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of russia’s mercenary wagner group, has taken full credit for the “storming” of soledar. president volodymyr zelensky of ukraine denied the city had fallen, and evgeny prigozhin repeated his claim that his mercenaries had killed around 500 pro-ukraine troops.
Reshuffle of russian forces was made to improve the quality and effectiveness of the management of russian forces, and the fall of soledar may have been a result of the reshuffle. prigozhin and his mercenaries have taken full credit for the “storming” of the city, and have boasted that “the whole city is littered with the corpses of ukrainian soldiers”. the reshuffle may have been due to gen surovikin becoming too powerful and bypassing russia’s defence minister and gen gerasimov when talking to russian president vladimir putin.
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