The Ministry of Defense of Russia stated for the first time the name of the commander of the MOD ‘East’ group carrying out special operations in Ukraine, RBC reported.
Accordingly, the commander of the "East" group is Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, who headed the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), from November 2020 to September 2021. Also, he served in Syria and was a participant in the military actions against the invasion of Dagestan in 1999.
It became known Monday morning that Russian defense minister Sergey Shoygu made an inspection visit to the "East" group. And Muradov briefed Shoygu on "the current situation and the course implementation of the set tasks of crushing the adversary's forces in its area of responsibility."
