New Russian General To Deal With Factional Defence Ministry

The UK's Ministry of Defence has given its daily update on the war in Ukraine. <br />It says the Kremlin's appointment of hard-line General Sergei Surovikin to lead forces in Ukraine is probably an effort to improve the delivery of the operation. <br />The MoD says however, he may have to contend with an increasingly factional and poorly resourced Russian defence ministry. <br />It's thought that General Alexandr Dvornikov did hold this role between April and August, although it's not clear how much control he held over the often disparate and competing groupings of forces.