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Several Kremlin-affiliated milbloggers claimed that Dyumin's appointment was a sign that 'Putin's team' was taking full control over the situation in Kursk Oblast after Russian security forces failed to resolve the situation without Moscow's direct intervention over the past week,
Several milbloggers also suggested that Dyumin's appointment means that Putin seeks to find out why and how he was deceived about the real situation in Kursk Oblast, and many speculated that Dyumin's report will determine the fate of several high-ranking Russian officials and commanders,
We have no involvement. We'll continue to have conversations with the Ukrainians about their approach, but it is really for them to speak to,
Dyumin's alleged appointment sparked widespread speculation among Russian [military] bloggers and political commentators about Putin's disappointment in Russian security agencies."
The Institute for the Study of War wrote Tuesday Indeed, Aleksey Gennadyevich Dyumin was summoned yesterday and tasked with supervising the counterterrorist operation,
Dyumin is Putin's man. He will not allow the President to be deceived in reports to himself or others
wrote state media military correspondent Alexander Sladkov on Tuesday My sources have confirmed this information in advance. Indeed, Dyumin was invited to a meeting [with Putin] yesterday, and he was instructed to oversee the conduct of the counterterrorist operation. But the main task is to defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces that have invaded the territory of the Kursk region,
Nikolay Ivanov, a Russian State Duma deputy from the Kursk region, told RTVI on Tuesday Alexei Dyumin’s appointment as a senior official with comprehensive powers to address the operational crisis in the Kursk region indicates that the security forces were unable to resolve coordination issues independently, without Moscow's intervention,