Valery Gerasimov to replace Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed in October, as Zelenskiy mocks claims of Russian victory in Soledar
Russia has appointed Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff, as its overall commander for the war in, in the latest of several major shake-ups of Moscow’s military leadership during the stumbling invasion of its neighbour.
Gerasimov, like the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has faced sharp criticism from Russia’s hawkish military bloggers for multiple setbacks on the battlefield and Moscow’s failure to secure victory in a campaign the Kremlin had expected to take just a short time. “The terrorist state and its propagandists are trying to pretend” to have achieved some successes in Soledar, Zelensky said in his daily address, “but the fighting continues”.
However, a German government spokesperson said it was not aware of any requests from allies to send the tanks to Ukraine.and the town’s saltmines would have symbolic, military and commercial value for Moscow. But the situation in and around Soledar appeared fluid and neither claim could be independently verified.
“This is the sound of Soledar,” he said to the background noise of constant artillery strikes. “Local fights are happening from time to time and artillery is working on both sides.”had moved Wagner fighters from Bakhmut to focus solely on the battle for Soledar.
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