Russia appointed a new general to lead the war against Ukraine after Moscow suffered a series of military setbacks that triggered rare criticism of the battlefield command.
The announcement on Saturday was Moscow’s third senior military appointment in the space of a week.
Russian forces were driven out of much of the northeastern Kharkiv region in early September by a Ukrainian counteroffensive that allowed Kyiv to retake thousands of square kilometres of territory.
Russian troops also lost territory in the southern Kherson region as well as the Lyman transport hub in eastern Ukraine.
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Article URL : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/8/russia-names-new-general-to-lead-ukraine-offensive-after-setbacks