General Zhuravlev was removed from the post of commander of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation (photo)

Zhuravlev lost his position due to failures at the front. He was appointed Lieutenant General Roman Berdnikov, who graduated from the Suvorov Military College in Kiev in 1991. On September 28, Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev was removed from the post of commander of the Western Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Information about this appeared on an electronic resource that gathers information about legal entities and individual entrepreneurs of Russia.

In the accounting card of the federal state institution, "The United Strategic Command of the Western Military District" is headed by Roman Berdnikov. The changes took place on September 28, 2022. For his part, the Telegrams of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces reported that Zhuravlev was removed from office due to failure at the front. Colonel General Zhuravlev is 56 years old.

At one time he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Team College, the Military Academy of Armored troops, the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2015, he was appointed the first deputy commander of the Southern Military District troops. He headed the group of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during a military operation in Syria. Under his command, the Russian military attacked the city of Aleppo.

Thousands of civilians were killed during this. Among them are children. In 2017, Zhuravlev was awarded the title "Colonel-General" and appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Since November 2018 he has been the commander of the Western Military District troops. Married. He has two children. Berdnikov is a Russian Lieutenant General. He was 48 years old. In 1991 he graduated from the Kiev Suvorov Military School.

Four years later, he became a graduate of the Moscow Higher General College. Earlier he commanded motorized rifle troops. In November 2018, he became commander of the 29th All-Military Army of the Eastern Military District. In 2021 he commanded a group of troops in the Syrian Arab Republic. Earlier, Focus wrote that in Russia, the commander of the tank army, Sergei Kisel, was released due to tactical failures in Ukraine.