The failure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under the estuary: the Kremlin changed the commander of the Western Military District
This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. It is reported that Nikiforov before this appointment was the chief of staff and the first deputy commander of the troops of the Eastern Military District. At the moment, the general is located at the command point of the Russian group of east troops in Bogchar, the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation.
"General Nikiforov became the fourth commander of the Western VO with the beginning of a full -scale invasion," the Ministry of Defense said. Ukrainian scouts note that a formal reason for the release of Kuzovlev was a failure in the preparation of occupation troops for the offensive in the estuary.
However, it is possible that the rotation in the highest command of the Russian army speaks of the internal political struggle of people from the environment of Defense Minister Sergei Shoig and the current commander of a united group of troops in the war in Ukraine Sergey Surovikin.
"On the fact of this manifestation of the internal political struggle in the highest leadership of the Russian Federation-a person from the orbit of Shogu-Gerasimov is changed to a candidate from a group of Suvorokin-Prishozhin,"-said in Gur. Russian military commander Yevgeny Nikiforov was born on January 1, 1970.
In 1987 he graduated from the Suvorov College in Ussuriysk, the Russian Federation, and in 1991 he graduated from the Kolomensky High Artillery Team School at the Faculty of Airborne Troops. In the higher management positions of Nikiforov since 2012-after graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, he was the deputy commander of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District.
From 2016 to 2017 he held the position of commander of the 20th Guards Army of the Western Military District. And since February 2019 - Deputy Commander of the Western Military District. Recall that the material of the Financial Times was assessed by the actions of Sergei Surovikin, whom President Vladimir Putin appointed in October the commander of the occupation troops in the war in Ukraine.
According to the observers, Surovikin managed to strengthen the front line with the help of mobilized Russians, as well as to organize a successful departure of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Kherson, where they were threatened with defeat. On October 19, British intelligence reported that the Russian army has more and more problems with the officers because of permanent personnel permutations.