Newly appointed Russian General Alexander Dvornikov, who will now lead Russian forces in Ukraine, will carry out further brutal attacks against civilians, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said..

“This particular general has a resume that includes brutality against civilians in other wars, like this one in Syria, and we can expect even worse moves from him.”. This general will become another author of crimes and cruelty against the civilian population of Ukraine,” Sullivan said on CNN..

At the same time, he stressed that the appointment of Dvornikov as the head of the operation does not greatly increase Russia's chances of success in general, because it has already suffered a "

“No appointment of any general can erase the fact that Russia is already facing a strategic failure in Ukraine,” Sullivan said..

“And what we learned in the first few weeks of this war is that Ukraine will never be subjugated to Russia.. It doesn’t matter which general Putin appoints,” he added..

The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed the commander of the Southern Military District of Russia, General of the Army Alexander Dvornikov, commander of troops in Ukraine..

Its main task will be to improve coordination and win at any cost until May 9.

Dvornikov, 60, was the first commander of Russia's military operations in Syria since Putin sent troops there in September 2015 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad..