'They have high challenges to surmount, and the choice of a general doesn't mean that they're poised for greater success,' a senior U.S. defense official says.
Russian President Vladimir Putin named Gen. Alexander Dvornikov the country's new military commander.The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the U.S. assessment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's efforts to resist.Russia's new invasion commander
"He was the commander of the southern military district. And in the early days and weeks of the conflict, the Russians did achieve more success in the south than they achieved certainly in the north. I have no idea that was a factor in his selection," the official said. "What is clear is that the Russians continue to sink to new lows of depravity and brutality, as we saw with the missile strike on the train station last week," the official said.Emergency workers remove debris of a building destroyed in the course of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 10, 2022."We're all bracing for when the rest of the world gets to see what happens in Mariupol, what has happened.
"At least in the grouping that we're aware of, it's not an insignificant number of their BTGs are combat ineffective. And what does that mean? It means a lot of things. It can mean that they don't have the manpower that they need to effectively conduct a mission, or it could be ammunition and supply. It could be vehicles, depending on what the BTG does -- not all of them are just infantry," the official said.
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