Close
KTAR.com
News
Shows
Blogs
KTAR News on 92.3FM

US official: Russia appoints new Ukraine war commander

Cars drive near a damaged bridge following a Russian attack in the previous weeks in the town of Makarov, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) People shelter underground following explosions in Lviv, western Ukraine, Saturday, March 26, 2022. With Russia continuing to strike and encircle urban populations, from Chernihiv and Kharkiv in the north to Mariupol in the south, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday that they cannot trust statements from the Russian military Friday suggesting that the Kremlin planned to concentrate its remaining strength on wresting the entirety of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region from Ukrainian control. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Bodies of the four students who were killed in shelling lying down in the open back of a pick-up truck in the Maaret al-Naasan village in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, April 4, 2022. Syrian government forces on Monday shelled a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria, the country's last major opposition stronghold, killing four students on their way to school, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Men hold the body of one of the four students who were killed in shelling in the Maaret al-Naasan village in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, April 4, 2022. Syrian government forces on Monday shelled a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria, the country's last major opposition stronghold, killing four students on their way to school, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) A woman reacts as she enters a damaged church following a Russian attack in the previous weeks, in the town of Makaro , Kyiv region Ukraine, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. Since the beginning of the war at least 59 spiritual sites, mostly Orthodox churches, have been ruined or damaged, the Ukrainian authorities said. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) In this photo taken on March 17, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, poses with Col. Gen. Alexander Dvornikov during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander. A top U.S. official on Sunday, April 10, 2022 said Russia named Gen. Dvornikov as commander of an armed campaign that Russian authorities still refer to as a "special military operation." (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)