The war in Ukraine enters a new phase with the appointment of the general by Vladimir Putin Alexander Dvornikov to abandon the east of the country while Russia prepares for the final offensive against Donbass.
The United States interprets this appointment as a sign that more are to come. “Atrocities” and acts of “brutality” against Ukrainian civilians.
This is how senior officials in the White House reacted to the arrival of the supreme commander of the Russian offensive Alexander Dvornikov, battle-hardened in Syria and current head of the Southern Military District, which includes Ukraine’s annexed peninsula of Crimea.
More crime and brutality against Ukrainians
“This general in particular has a history that includes brutality against civilians in other settings, in Syria, and we can expect more of that in this setting,” he said. Jake SullivanUS President’s National Security Advisor Joe Biden.
In an interview with CNN, Sullivan predicted that Dvornikov would be “another perpetrator of crimes and brutality against Ukrainian civilians, the worst is yet to come.”
Selenski warns of the severity of the new offensive
At the same time, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that this coming week will be very tough given the Russian army’s preparations for an attack on the east of the country, the pro-Russian separatist provinces Donestk and Luhansk.
The week will be “tense” in the east of the country because “Russian troops will move there to continue their operations,” Zelenskyy said in his television message this morning.
The last part of the Ukrainian army states that “the enemy continues to form an offensive group of troops to advance towards Slobozhansky (Dnipro region) and “probably in the coming days the occupiers will try to resume the offensive”.