It has now been revealed that the CSTO forces are being led by the Russian General Andrei Serdyukov, who was also in charge of Russia’s military missions in other countries where Moscow has intervened, including the invasion and annexation of Crimea in Ukraine in 2014 and the maintenance of Russian forces in Syria in 2019.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, the appointment of Serdyukov was announced yesterday by the Ministry of Defence’s spokesman Igor Konashenkov, who said that all of the deployed Russian brigades and divisions “have undergone special training and have real combat experience.”
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