At 60, currently at the helm of the Southern Military District, he was the head of Russian forces in Syria: now Moscow is counting on him to break down Ukrainian resistance
It took 44 days and in the end the Kremlin seems to have decided to appoint a sole commander of the special military operation in Ukraine.
Western experts have long pointed out that the various forces engaged on different fronts appear to be uncoordinated. This is a clear sign of the lack of a single general surveillance center.
Now, according to a BBC source, General Aleksandr Dvornikov, former chief of the expeditionary force in Syria, would have been put in charge of leading all troops in view of the battle that would push Moscow to control all of southeastern Ukraine. . The troops tasked with the attempted capture of Kiev were then disbanded, and troops stationed in the Donbass or on the Azov Sea coast appeared to be competing for the necessary resources rather than taking unequivocal action, an American analyst commented to CNN . On the other hand, one of the principles of warfare is the unity of command, in the sense that one person must be responsible for everything: he must coordinate the fire, direct the logistics, use the reserve forces, measure the successes and failures of the different wings of the front and , based on what he sees, change strategy.
This situation probably meant that many generals had to work almost directly on the front lines to keep the operations of the various departments under control. Hence the very heavy highranking casualties reported by the Ukrainians, who claim to have killed at least six Russian generals. And the death of a top officer in combat is usually extremely rare, according to David Petraeus, former commander general of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and former director of the CIA.
It is not entirely certain that the Russians did not have a single operations leader before Dvornikov, whose name may not have been made public. In that case, Western analysts argue, it would not have been a very efficient commander given the results.
Dvornikov, 60, currently head of the Southern Military District after leading the armed forces in Syria. On this occasion, the Russians used the socalled Grozny technique, ie massive and indiscriminate bombing, to clear the way for ground forces, which were then sent to occupy the city centers. And there are fears that the same method will be used in cities occupied by the Kiev army and volunteers.
The general, who studied at the renowned Frunze Academy in Moscow, has just been awarded the title of “Hero of Russia” for his work in Syria.
April 9, 2022 (Change April 9, 2022 | 14:30)
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