INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Kremlin said Friday that Ukraine's appointment of a new Commander-in-Chief would not lead to any changes in the nearly two-year war
between Moscow and Kyiv.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday relieved his top commander Valerii Zaluzhnyi, marking the biggest
shake-up of the country's military leadership since the start of the conflict."We don't think it's a factor that will change the course of
the 'special military operation'," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, using Moscow's preferred term for its invasion.Zelensky
days.He later commanded Ukraine's lightning counteroffensive in the fall of 2022, when Kyiv's forces reclaimed large swathes of territory
that had been captured by Russia in the first months of the invasion.Peskov also said Friday that Russia would continue its military
campaign "until the goals have been achieved."And yet the front lines have barely shifted in more than a year of fighting, and both sides
have lost tens of thousands of soldiers.Zelensky said fresh military leadership was needed following last year's Ukrainian counteroffensive,
which failed to achieve the kind of sweeping territorial gains that many had expected.
