# Gerasimov is appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 11 January 2023 the Russian defence ministry said [Valery Gerasimov](/people/valery-gerasimov), chief of the General Staff, had been appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine, with Sergei Surovikin as deputy.

## Context

He was already chief of the General Staff on 24 February 2022. The January 2023 appointment made him the named overall commander of the continuing operation. Surovikin is named as an unresolved person candidate. This run does not mint a page for him. [Vladimir Putin](/people/vladimir-putin) remains commander-in-chief.

The June 2023 mutiny is a neighbouring fracture. Keep Gerasimov is appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine on 2023-01-11 separate from neighbouring overall-commander, Wagner-mutiny, and 2024 continuity instruments.

The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the operational-command face of the army. He can receive an overall-commander appointment and sit as a named mutiny target. He does not write presidential decrees or ICC warrants.

## Evidence and sources

TASS / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is the Ukraine war: a completed overall-commander appointment for the same invasion.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an 11 January 2023 appointment of Gerasimov as overall commander of the force in Ukraine, independently recorded the same day.

Not established: a unique later casualty coefficient from that hour, or that the appointment transferred the nuclear briefcase.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The president remains commander-in-chief. Surovikin became deputy. Reuters did not write the ministry text.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Gerasimov is appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine, not a later speech about Gerasimov is appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Gerasimov is appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine on 2023-01-11 is not a licence to treat every later TASS / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Gerasimov is appointed overall commander of the force in Ukraine into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He received the appointment as chief of the General Staff. The president remains commander-in-chief. Surovikin became deputy. Reuters did not write the ministry text. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Valery Gerasimov: https://factrail.ai/people/valery-gerasimov

## Drivers

- Ukraine war (Crimea–Donbas–2022+): https://factrail.ai/drivers/ukraine-war

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-appoints-gerasimov-head-ukraine-war-tass-2023-01-11/
- https://tass.com/politics/1562479

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-gerasimov-overall-commander-2023-01-11