Andrei Ivanovich Sycheva, whom Shoigu on Wednesday first called the commander of the West group, according to open data, until November last year commanded the 8th Guards Combined Arms of the Southern Military District.
The title is Lieutenant General, he was born in the Krasnodar Territory, after the school, he served in tank and motorized rifle units, after the combined arms academy he served as deputy commander of the regiment to the division commander (including the famous Tamanskaya). After studying at the Academy of the General Staff, he was the chief of staff of the 5th combined arms army of the Eastern Military District, from where he moved to the 8th Guards Army of the Southern District, writes the Air Force.
Further in open data there is a small pause (in November last year), and in February the general found himself among those in relation to whom the EU imposed personal sanctions in connection with the armed invasion of Ukraine. Unlike three other commanding groups of the Russian army in Ukraine, the surname of this military leader did not meet in the news.
Awarded the medals of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” I and II degree, “For the difference in military service” I, II and III degree, two orders of courage, as well as the medal “Member of the military operation in Syria.”
General Sycheva – the fourth commander of groups in Ukraine, whose surname was named by the Ministry of Defense of Russia. At first, generals Alexander Lapin and Sergey Surovikin (Center and South, respectively) were declassified, on Monday – Rustam Muradov, who fought in Chechnya and headed the Russian contingent in Nagorno -Karabakh in 2021.