Defense in Kursk Oblast: In the Russian Federation found guilty, arrests of officials went - isw
According to the governor of Kursk region Alexander Hinstein, Bazarov, working in the regional administration, seized a billion rubles from money allocated to defense structures. Due to the same accusations of their posts, the former deputy governor of Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov and his colleague from the Belgorod region, Rustem Zohnulin, became lost and became the defendants of criminal prosecution.
And Roman Starovoit, ex-governor of Kursk region, and then-Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, who was dismissed on July 7, and at all, as claimed, committed suicide. According to ISW analysts, all this series of arrests and personnel permutations indicate that the Kremlin is making every effort to find guilty in the defense of the Kursk region, where they came to the Armed Forces a year ago.
"The Kremlin is probably also trying to make local officials for the inability of Russia to repel Ukrainian cross-border raids in the Belgorod region in 2023 and 2024,"-added to ISW. The Kursk operation began on August 6 at the border of the Kursk and Sumy region, when the Ukrainian troops broke through the RF border in the Sudzha city. During the week of the offensive under the control of the Armed Forces, 74 settlements in the territory of about a thousand square kilometers were found.
The Ukrainian army easily broke through the first defensive lines, equipped with border guards and conscripts, and advanced deep into the Russian territory in at least several directions. However, soon the rapid offensive slowed down, as there was a need to protect themselves from counterattack and strengthen the flanks. This pause gave the Armed Forces time to tighten reserves and fix themselves on more profitable tactical limits.
Part of the forces and means of the Russian army from the Kharkiv direction were transferred to this direction, and then there were collected the maximum number of troops and even connected the North Korean soldiers, who were about 11-12 thousand. Ukraine has already begun to retreat slowly, when thousands of North Korean soldiers suddenly appeared in the Kursk 2024. They moved large groups and did not seem to notice dangerous UAVs.
With the onset of winter, according to Ukrainian special forces, the DPRK fighters were even more threatening. On February 20, 2025, the Russian army knocked the Armed Forces from the village of Sverdlikovo, and in March the Ukrainian army left Sudzhi. During that period of the Armed Forces, the novelty began to actively use the novelty-FPV-pions with fiber control.
Subsequently, the Russians also resorted to the effect of surprise - they developed an ambush plan in the rear, sending the fighters to the Armed Forces positions due to the disconnected underground gas pipeline. It had its consequences for the enemy: the soldiers died and suffered from health problems, including lung collapse and chemical poisoning.
Summing up the results of the Kursk operation in July this year, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Alexander Syrsky stated that the operation of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation was "incredible" and "brilliant", and it was it it it was it that it was it that rescued several key areas in the Donbass, including Pokrovsk, where there are now about 110 thousand. "The enemy actually stopped offensive actions in most directions except Pokrovsky.