So, one granite-faced general has been replaced by another. The announcement that, after just three months in post, General Sergei Surovikin is being succeeded as overall commander of Russia’s war in Ukraine by Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov may sound like appointing a new captain for a hull-breached Titanic. But it is significant in what it says, not just about the war, but Putin’s relationship with his generals.
#Ukraine: A Russian tank was destroyed by the 59th Motorized Brigade in Lozove, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/HndqRGZ0oy
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) January 10, 2023
