YuThe command group of troops is led by the Commander-in-Chief of the VKS, Army General, Hero of Russia Sergey Surovikin. The formations and military units of the Center group of troops are led by Colonel-General, Commander of the Central Military District Alexander Lapin
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Ministry of Defense of Russia named the commanders of the groups of troops in Ukraine.
Thus, the formations and military units of the group of forces “Center” are under the command of Colonel-General Alexander Lapin. They managed to block the city of Lisichansk in Ukraine from the south.
Also, within five days, they took control of 11 settlements, including Loskutovka, Mirnaya Dolina and Ustinovka.
Army General Sergei Surovikin commands the southern group of troops. The department stated that it “completed the defeat” of the surrounded group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Gorsky Cauldron.
At the request of Roskomnadzor, RBC provides data on the details of the military operation in Ukraine based on information from Russian official sources.
Sergey Surovikin was born on October 11, 1966 in Novosibirsk. He graduated from the Omsk Higher Combined Arms Command School named after M.V. Frunze with a gold medal.
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Surovikin has been on active military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR (then Russia) since 1983.
He was among the servicemen who participated in the 1991 coup. He was 25 years old, he headed the 20th battalion of the Taman Division and was sitting in an armored personnel carrier, which crushed three young men to death – Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov. After the coup, Surovikin spent six months in the “Sailor’s Silence”, however, the investigation found him innocent, since at that moment he was following the orders of the leadership.
Surovikin participated in the armed conflict in Tajikistan, the Second Chechen War and the military operation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Since October 31, 2017, he has been the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). In December of that year, he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia “for courage and heroism shown while performing military duty in Syria”.
In August 2021, the President of Russia awarded Surovikin the military rank of army general.
Alexander Lapin was born in 1964 in Kazan. He graduated from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School, the Military Academy of Armored Forces, the Military Academy of the General Staff and passed all command positions.
In November 2017, Putin appointed Lapin commander of the Central Military District.
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