Sergey Surovikin

Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin is a Russian army general who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces from 2017 until he was sacked by Vladimir Putin in 2023. A veteran of the Soviet–Afghan War, Tajikistani Civil War, Second Chechen War, and the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war, he was from October 2022 to January 2023 the commander of all Russian forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and deputy commander from January 2023 until he was sacked in August 2023.