Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian milbloggers are furious at the failure of Russia's Ministry of Defence to protect the Kursk region border from the current large-scale Ukrainian incursion. They call the situation there "hell on earth".

2/ A common complaint is the military's failure to anticipate the attack. Ravreba comments: "The Kursk region lived, like Moscow, without thinking about the fact that there was an enemy nearby that was not sleeping.

3/ "On August 2, a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group was completely wiped out, the bodies were shown in Ukrainian [Telegram channels], but the understanding that the fighters had run into a group preparing an invasion, not a special force, did not come.

4/ "Aerospace reconnaissance? No, we haven’t heard of it."

5/ Anastasia Kashevarova comments: "We knew that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would go to Kursk Oblast. We knew that they were pulling forces together. We knew everything as usual, the guys from the fields reported it, but the higher-ups did nothing."

6/ The lack of effective defences on the border comes in for harsh criticism. Kashevarova asks sarcastically, "why strengthen the border? There's an old man with a Berdan rifle and an old dog walking around there - the border is locked!"

7/ Similarly, Rabreva writes: "There is an army in the Kursk region - border guards, motorised riflemen, air defence, air force, etc. Bring them to combat readiness, conduct continuous exercises, carry out work to strengthen the border? Let's not talk about sad things.

8/ "The enemy will not pass! The generals thought and they had a very good time."

The pro-Wagner channel Alex Parker Returns has harsh words for the Chechen Akhmat unit, which was supposed to be guarding the border but has been criticised for "hiding behind conscripts."

9/ "Instead of the Akhmat circus, conscripts were thrown into the battle. The result was predictable."

The Callsign《OSETIN》channel complains that "Columns of equipment are moving across our lands, and the troops and infantry are nowhere to be found...

10/ "There is no artillery, no tanks, no equipment, and did anyone prepare for this? Only aviation, operators and forward air controllers are working, border guards are also fighting."

11/ Veterans' Notes says that Russian commanders in the field are lying to the General Staff about the true state of manpower and reserves (likely another example of the Russian military's institutionalised lying, discussed in the thread below).

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1629201232815394816

12/ "With personnel and reserves, things are not as good as they are reported from the field to the General Staff. The enemy knows this.

13/ "And uses this to their advantage, knowing that the Russian Armed Forces Command will be forced to withdraw units from Donbass to strengthen the borders in the Kursk region."

15/ The leadership in Moscow gets a kicking from commentators. Anastasia Kashevarova attacks military leaders for continuing "to make mistakes and lie. They lie that there is no enemy on the territory of the Russian Federation. They hide obvious facts.

16/ "They distribute lines that there are no khokhols [Ukrainians] on the territory of the Kursk region. But this is not true ...

Do you know why they lie? Because they make mistakes all the time. Because every day they make mistakes that cost our fighters their lives.

17/ "Because any mistake, any blunder, any connivance and that's it - wounded, dead, captured, shot down, destroyed equipment."

18/ The milblogger Ravreba complains that there is "a complete disregard for the state of war in Moscow ... we do a special operation here, we don’t do a special operation there, and here they wrap up fish."

19/ "It is more convenient for the new Minister of Defence to calculate how much the grandfathers stole than to kick generals who do something only when they are bent over with a whip and an axe," Rabreva writes.

20/ "The career military are [not focusing] on the concentration of the enemy on the other side of the border because the issue is not about salary, and the grass will not paint itself. The conscripts are [focusing] on the fact that they are at war.

21/ "They were promised that they wouldn't be thrown onto the front line, but it was not supposed to be done by the terms of service."

22/ Alex Parker Returns laments: "Few people at the beginning of the Special Military Operation could imagine that 2 years later the hohols would enter the Kursk region, capture conscripts and continue to advance deeper [towards] the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.

23/ "But, alas, this is reality. And the solution is banal. The grandfathers are strangling Russia. With their stupidity, tolerance, inertia of thinking, slowness and clumsiness. And there was no one who would refute this." /end

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t.me/apwagner/26853
t.me/apwagner/26879
t.me/akashevarova/7…
t.me/Ravreba/9220
t.me/osetin20/8952