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Aug 13 • 13 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1/ @olliecarroll commented a few days ago on how "heavenly" the roads in the Kursk region look compared to elsewhere. At the same time, the building of border defences has clearly been neglected. Corruption is reportedly the reason for both phenomena. ⬇️
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that Russia's Transport Minister, Roman Starovoyt, has been in an "agitated" state since Ukraine invaded the Kursk region. The reasons are said to lie in his previous role as head of the Kursk regional government. Image
3/ Starovoyt led the regional government from October 2018 to May 2024 before being promoted by Putin to Transport Minister. During that time, the channel reports, 16 billion rubles ($176 million) were supposed to have been spent on border defences in the Kursk region.
4/ According to VChK-OGPU, "The decision on construction [of the border defences] was made at a meeting of the operational headquarters under the leadership of Governor Starovoyt.
5/ "The customer (OKU "Capital Construction Directorate of the Kursk Region") and the general contractor (JSC "Kursk Region Development Corporation") were quite clear and were completely under the control of Starovoyt and his associates.
6/ "As a result, the work that was supposed to be completed by mid-2023 has, of course, not been completed to this day, but the budget was sawed up properly.
7/ "At the end of the year, the local prosecutor's office intervened in the case with a claim to recover more than 2 billion rubles ($22 million) from the contractors, but the case, of course, was hushed up,…
8/ …and the ex-governor hid in the Ministry of Transport to be on the safe side."

At the same time, the channel notes, "if fortification in the Kursk region was a complete failure, then with the road industry during Starovoyt's time, everything was not bad."
9/ This is attributed to the work being contracted out to the notoriously corrupt businessman Vladimir "Barmaley" Golubev, who has made a fortune from road-building contracts in Russia. Starovoyt is said to be a protégé of Golubev and likely steered regional contracts to him.
10/ While the money to build border defences seems to have simply been stolen, Golubev appears to take the more sustainable approach of providing the goods, but overcharging for them. Thus the roads have actually been built, unlike the border defences.
11/ According to VChK-OGPU, "OOO "Terra", which is part of his holding, spent more than 9 billion rubles [$99 million] on the roads in the Kursk region in just a few years of Starovoyt's rule, showing an extremely low final profit…
12/ …(that is, without transferring the required funds to the regional budget). But the roads, unlike the fortifications, are built to perfection. So now any military equipment moves very quickly on good asphalt in any direction." /end
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Aug 13
1/ The Russian publication 'Interesting Stories' has published a lengthy interview with a former Russian army officer who opposed the invasion of Ukraine. He explains how the Ukrainians were able to invade the Kursk region so easily. Here are some extracts. ⬇️ Image
2/ The former officer comments that the Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion began mounting raids into the Kursk region in March 2024. This was done to observe "how quickly they respond to your arrival, how many forces are there, where, what, how."
3/ While the Ukrainians were gathering intelligence on the ground, the officer says, the Russians didn't react: "what changed on our side [on the border] in six months? Fucking nothing."
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Aug 12
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. ⬇️
2/ In the video, the man shows himself wandering around the house's ransacked interior. The building appears to have been damaged, probably by shelling. He complains that "the Ministry of Defence" (i.e. the Army) have been there before him and have stripped the house.
3/ At least three of his colleagues are visible in and around the building's garage. Describing it as "rich" (in loot, presumably), he says they are "cleaning it [out]".
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Aug 12
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
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that "in the border areas of the Kursk region, where fighting has been going on all week, there are no police, no firefighters, no doctors, no representatives of the administration.
3/ "According to official information, more than 76,000 people left the settlements (most of them left on their own, since there was no organized evacuation, despite the statements of the authorities), but there are still people there, mostly elderly."
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Aug 11
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". ⬇️
2/ At least 13 trucks filled with Russian troops were hit by Ukrainian HIMARS missiles on 8 August, killing many soldiers. It's likely to be one of Russia's biggest losses of life in a single incident since the full-scale war began in February 2022.
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. ⬇️
2/ The "Philologist in Ambush" Telegram channel comments that although Russian reserves are being brought up to serve as a "fire brigade", they "continue to be insufficient even for sustainable stabilisation of the situation, let alone the defeat of the enemy grouping.
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
2/ Russian drone manufacturers are heavily dependent on imported Chinese components. According to research by the Yermak-@McFaul International Expert Group, 67% of the components in the Shahed-136/131, Lancet and Orlan-10 drones come from China.
3/ The 'Vostok Battalion' Telegram channel reports that Ukraine's recent successes in its Kursk offensive were aided by a previously unseen ability to evade enemy electronic warfare systems. The Russians say they themselves lack this ability due to problems with Chinese supplies:
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