General Alexander Dvornikov has reportedly been appointed as Russia's new top commander in the conflict, seven weeks after Ukraine was invaded.
"What we should all be aware of, and we are certainly aware of, is this is a general who was already responsible for overseeing atrocities in Syria and that we would expect that it would be a continuation of the types of atrocities we've already seen take place in Ukraine," Psaki said.
Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 after months of military escalation at the border. Thehas recorded at least 1,842 civilian deaths and 2,493 injuries in the country as of April 10 but warns the actual numbers are likely much higher. More than 4 million people have fled the nation.
The international community has accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine after a maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol was bombed and hundreds of civilians were killed in the city of Bucha. Bucha's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, said Russian troops attacked his town out of frustration when they were unable to seize Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv at the start of the war. That military failure and others have undermined any Russian hopes for a quick victory over Ukraine's forces.
The White House said Monday that putting a new Russian general in charge of the Ukraine war can't"erase" Vladimir Putin's failures in the conflict. Above, Putin chairs a March 10 meeting with members of the Russian government via teleconference in Moscow.
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