The general who was appointed to be in charge of the military command has extensive experience from the war in Syria.

Militarnyi reports about this.

This information was shared with BBC by a senior Western official.

The forces that entered Ukraine on February 24 were poorly organized and uncoordinated.

There was indeed poor coordination between many different commands and structures because Russian troops had previously never worked in such a way. General Aleksandr Dvornikov, Commander of the Southern Military District, will now be working to fix this situation.

“This commander has extensive experience in Russian operations in Syria. Therefore, the general command and control could improve,” said the official.

The West believes that the political goals of the Russians outweigh the military, therefore their current goal is to make some breakthrough by May 9th. Thus, there are talks that the forces would be deployed to Donbas in stages rather than giving them a break to allow the troops to regroup properly.

Per estimations, the invaders have approximately 100 battalion tactical groups that have already recovered from the previous fighting.

It could be a “significant” force, but Russia’s attempts have shown that even despite the Russian quantitative superiority, the Ukrainian military is acting smarter and more resourceful.

“If the Russians do not change their tactics, it is difficult to imagine them succeeding even within the limited goals they currently have, and, of course, this was not the pace they had hoped for,” the official added.

On April 8, the Russian invaders deployed a Tochka-U missile at the Kramatorsk railway station. One of the missiles hit the waiting room, where many civilians were located at that moment. They were waiting for the evacuation trains. As of 4 p.m. on April 8, fifty people were proclaimed dead, five of them being children.