Colonel-General Alexander Lentsov appointed new commander of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh
Baku/26.04.23/Turan Colonel-General Alexander Lentsov has been appointed the new commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Karabakh, according to a statement on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry.
“From April 25, 2023, Colonel-General Alexander Lentsov, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the RF Armed Forces, has been appointed commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent,” the department’s newsletter says.
Prior to that, Major General Andrey Volkov commanded the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Karabakh.
Until 2020, Alexander Lentsov served as Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces. In January 2020, he was appointed adviser to the Minister of Defense.
The colonel-general also took part in military operations in Afghanistan, Chechnya, South Ossetia and Syria.
During the armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine in September-December 2014 and in the spring of 2015, he led a group of Russian military personnel in the joint Russian-Ukrainian center for monitoring and coordinating ceasefire issues -06B-
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