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Russian Defense Minister Shoigu has officially relieved the commanders of the Western and Southern Military Districts. Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev has been appointed as the head of the  Southern Military District, a reshuffle from his prior posting as commander of the Western Military District. Army General Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov has been relieved and it is not clear if he will...

According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), this morning the agency “initiated a criminal case against a US citizen on the grounds of a crime under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Espionage”. The American is suspected of collecting intelligence information on biological topics directed against the security of the Russian Federation.” Russian state-owned media repeated the...

At approximately 0700 EST reports began to emerge that the Wagner Group had officially registered under the Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities as a non-joint public stock company, with Alexei Tensin serving as the CEO. This is the first time since the foundation of Wagner by Yevgeny Prigozhin in 2014, that the organization has appeared on any Russian...

At approximately 0530 EST reports began to emerge from conscripted Russian soldiers that their group of nearly 400 infantrymen were being sent from their assembly areas near Kreminna to attack positions near Svatove where Ukrainian troops broke through during the September Kharkiv counteroffensives. One of the reports reads below: “More than 400 mobilized from Gorno-Altaysk tomorrow from the Ukrainian Kremennaya...

General Valery Gerasimov, the current Chief of the Russian General Staff, has replaced General Sergey Surovikin as the overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine. The official message from the Russian Ministry of Defense reads:  "The Chief of the General Staff, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, has been appointed Commander of the Joint Group of Troops (Forces). His deputies...