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Aug 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ The border between Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and its neighbours Poland and Lithuania is reportedly barely guarded due to a lack of manpower. Meanwhile, the FSB is said to be resisting the creation of an expanded border protection force recruited from veterans. ⬇️ Image
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports the views of a source on the border situation in Kaliningrad: "How do they guard the border (with Poland and Lithuania) in the Kaliningrad region now?
3/ "No way, God willing, 17% of the personnel remain, the rest are on a mission in the Belgorod region (where they send people from all departments, whoever they can find)."
4/ "150 people were sent, 120 returned and immediately went on vacation for 2 months. Then back to training and on a mission. The only hope is for conscripts."
5/ "At the same time, the FSB stubbornly does not want to establish, recruit [a unit of] former military personnel and officers who previously served in the MMG [Motorised manoeuvre group of the Border Troops of the USSR and Russian Federation] …
6/ …and DShMG [Airborne Assault Maneuverable Group], which were engaged in the protection and defence of the border in the [Collective Security Treaty Organization] zones."
7/ VChK-OGPU does not explain the FSB's reluctance, but it may be concerned about protecting its own role in defending the border, or potentially about the loyalties of discharged veterans.
8/ The FSB took over the formerly separate Border Guard Service of Russia in 2003. With about 170,000 members, the Border Guards are one of Russia's largest armed formations, but are entirely separate from the Russian Armed Forces. /end

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1/ A Russian soldier captured by Ukraine recorded himself looting an abandoned house in the Kursk region. The video was reportedly retrieved from his mobile phone. It potentially corroborates reports of widespread looting from their own civilians by the Russian military. ⬇️
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1/ As Ukrainian forces advance in the Kursk region, law and order in frontline Russian-held areas is reported to have collapsed completely. "Rampant looting" is said have broken out – being done by the Russians themselves – while local residents say they feel abandoned. ⬇️ Image
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1/ Ukraine's HIMARS attack on a Russian convoy in Rylsk, Kursk region, has prompted fury from Russian milbloggers at the military's incompetence. "The Russian land is full of idiots," one concludes; another complains that "this is some kind of sodomy". ⬇️
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3/ The Russian military analyst and volunteer Roman Alekhine calls for the negligent commander in charge of the convoy to be executed, or maybe less drastically, to be demoted and sent to join a "meat wave" assault unit.
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1/ Gloomy assessments by Russian milbloggers suggest that Russia faces serious difficulties in defeating Ukraine's Kursk offensive due to a lack of strategic reserves, a reliance on "patchwork" of badly attrited units, and the weakening of other fronts. ⬇️
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3/ "They are insufficient not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively. On the enemy side, there are fairly well-equipped units and formations. So far we have a patchwork of fire brigades, and not enough in terms of numbers.
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1/ Despite China's professed support for Russia, Russian drone-makers complain that Chinese companies are providing them with poor-quality, defective, overpriced components that are delivered late or not at all. They attribute it to China covertly seeking to weaken Russia. ⬇️ Image
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1/ Recriminations are reportedly taking place within Russia's special forces over the deaths in an ambush on 28 July of six elite soldiers, who were part of a sabotage and reconnaissance group infiltrating into Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ The six men were members of the 322nd Special Operations Centre ("Senezh"). Their unit has been active in many of Russia's conflicts in recent years, in the Caucasus, the Middle East, Africa, Crimea and the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2022.
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