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Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief Drapaty is on Russia’s wanted list

Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee brought charges against Drapaty for staging more than 70 shelling attacks killing or wounding 154 people

MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief, Mikhail Drapaty, is on Russia’s wanted list, as follows from the Russian interior ministry’s database.

Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee brought charges against Drapaty. According to the committee, Drapaty and Viktor Nikolyuk were in command of the Joint Forces Operation, during which Ukrainian militants staged more than 70 shelling attacks on settlements in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), killing or wounding 154 people.

Drapaty was reportedly appointed as the Ukrainian army’s commander-in-chief on Tuesday.

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