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Russian MP: Putin's former bodyguard is in charge of Kursk operation

2024-08-17

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The Ukrainian army suddenly invaded the Russian mainland. Seeing that the situation on the front line was extremely critical, Putin made major adjustments and sent his "successor" to take over Kursk. Can the Russian side turn the tide?

In order to force Russia to make major concessions in future negotiations, Zelensky decided to take a gamble and sent a large number of Ukrainian troops to raid Russia's Kursk Oblast. The Ukrainian army's attack on Russia also exposed the big problem of the lack of Russian border defense forces. Currently, Russia and Ukraine are still engaged in fierce fighting in Kursk. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian army suffered heavy losses in the fighting in Kursk, with more than 2,000 casualties.

But the news released by Ukraine was exactly the opposite. When reporting the results of the battle to Zelensky, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Sersky, said that about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory had been captured, and in Kursk, the Ukrainian army also captured 74 settlements.

Seeing that the situation on the Kursk front was critical and the Ukrainian army's victories were expanding, Putin quickly organized a meeting of Russian senior officials and immediately made a major personnel adjustment.

According to Red Star News, after the Ukrainian army crossed the border and sneaked into Kursk, Putin ordered the chairman of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, Bortnikov, to be responsible for the local "anti-terrorist operations." But not long after, the secretary of the Russian Federation State Council, Jumin, took over Kursk in his place.