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Russian forces have redeployed additional forces to Kursk Oblast since the first week of the Ukrainian incursion and have likely redeployed more than 5,000 personnel to Kursk Oblast overall,
I feel sorry for the boys – no doubt. But we used to fight with them before,
You promised that they [the conscripts] wouldn’t be involved in military actions!!!! We believe in you. We are patriots!!!
The initial force in the Kursk area was FSB Border Troops, Akhmat fighters from Chechnya, and local ground forces units taken from the Moscow or Leningrad military districts. Now, they have brought in additional forces subordinate from the Leningrad and Moscow military districts – some of them are conscripts,
said Dara Massicot, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace He worries that Putin may not appreciate the idea that his vision of a ‘sanitary zone’– the goal of the Kharkiv offensive, according to Putin – has come to an end,
We joked that it wasn't April 1st. The commander just smiled, knowing we had no idea what was awaiting us,
said Serhiy, a private in Ukraine's 80th brigade We know for sure that 250 people were transferred from one military unit in the Leningrad region to Kursk. We’ve received requests regarding conscripts from at least 10 units – so it’s fair to say around 1,000 people have been moved,
Putin hopes to contain the Ukrainian advance with mostly conscript forces. But can they push back the Ukrainian troops? I doubt it,
said Yury Fedorov, Russian military analyst Conscripts are being forced to sign contracts, and their documents are being falsified to make it appear as though they have been serving for a long time,
said Chuvilayev from Go by the Forest But from the top came the order not to panic, and that those above know better,
Gurulyov said, ... according to a translation by The New York Times Plugging the gap in Kursk clearly isn’t easy for Russia,
said Pavel Luzin, a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis Elite, heavily armed brigades against our children with rifles. Every day, more parents find their children in videos and photos among the captured,
another mother, Irina, posted The situation in the border area remains difficult, but our defenders are successfully working to destroy the enemy,
Careful preparation, planning, surprise, fighting spirit and informational silence became decisive in the initial stage of the operation,
the Airborne Assault Troops said in an online post What's going on with the lights? I've got no light or water,
said a woman posting as "Ekaterina Picasa." The Russians had a complete intelligence failure here,
French military expert Yohann Michel, research fellow at the IESD institute in Lyon, said in an interview It's clear that substantial amounts of different engineer equipment were prepared and used,
said Paroinen, who studies publicly available footage from the Russia-Ukraine war Right now the risk of an armed invasion of the territory of Kursk region from Ukraine is not high. However, we are constantly working to strengthen the region’s defense capabilities."
The following month, he wrote We advise people to leave the town,
said one such message at 7:34 a.m. It was likely easier for Ukrainian forces to progress around and through Russia's fortifications in the region, especially if they were manned by fewer or poorly trained personnel,