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| Russian Lieutenant General Ivanaev appointed commander of the East group of forces |
| 2024-12-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Lieutenant General Andrei Ivanayev has been appointed commander of the Russian group of forces "East". This was reported on December 13 by the Russian Defense Ministry. 52-year-old Ivanayev previously held the post of commander of the 20th combined arms army. The military man was born in 1972 in Uralsk, Kazakhstan ASSR. He studied at the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School, graduated from the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Since 2013, he held the position of head of the district training center in the Eastern Military District, and since 2017, he was chief of staff - deputy commander of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District. His awards include the Order of Military Merit, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd degree with the image of swords. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 13, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov inspected the Russian troop grouping "Vostok" in the special operation zone. The head of the Defense Ministry heard reports from the command on the fulfillment of tasks by the Russian army at a working meeting at the grouping command post. The Russian Armed Forces' "East" group of troops has liberated seven settlements and a territory of 300 square kilometers this month. As a result of the effective use of high-precision weapons and attack drones, the Ukrainian army is suffering significant losses in both equipment and manpower, Ivanayev noted. |
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