Alexei Kim

Alexei Rostislavovich Kim
Alexei Rostislavovich Kim
Алексей Ростиславович Ким
Personal details
Born	21 September 1958 (age 64)
Alma mater	Moscow Higher Military Command School; Frunze Military Academy; Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
Profession	Soldier
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (3); Order of Alexander Nevsky; Order of Kutuzov; Order of Courage (2); Order of Military Merit; Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Honored Military Specialist of the Russian Federation;
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union; Russia
Branch/service	Soviet Ground Forces; Russian Ground Forces;
Years of service	1979–present
Rank	Colonel general
Battles/wars	Soviet–Afghan War; Tajikistani Civil War; Second Chechen War; Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War; Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine; ;

Alexei Rostislavovich Kim (Russian: Алексей Ростиславович Ким; born 21 September 1958) is a Russian Ground Forces colonel general. He is Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.[1][2]

On 11 January 2023, Kim was appointed deputy commander of all Russian forces in Ukraine, along with Sergey Surovikin and Oleg Salyukov, with the head commander becoming Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.[3]

References

"Russia Names General Gerasimov as New Commander in Ukraine". Bloomberg. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
"Top Russian general put in charge of 'more dangerous' Ukraine war". www.aljazeera.com.
Lister, Tim (11 January 2023). "Putin burns through another top Ukraine commander as armed forces chief is handed 'poisoned chalice'". CNN. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

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[1] "Russia Names General Gerasimov as New Commander in Ukraine". Bloomberg. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[2] "Top Russian general put in charge of 'more dangerous' Ukraine war". www.aljazeera.com.

[3] Lister, Tim (11 January 2023). "Putin burns through another top Ukraine commander as armed forces chief is handed 'poisoned chalice'". CNN. Retrieved 13 January 2023.