Local population is involved in the defense of the Kursk region
In the Kursk region of Russia, the creation of "Bars-Kursk" volunteer detachments from local residents was announced. Volunteers who signed the agreement will be trained and armed. Their task will be to ensure security in the territory of the Kursk region.
Volunteer detachments are being formed to "maintain law and order" in the territories occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region. On August 29, acting governor of the region Aleksey Smirnov announced this on his Telegram channel.
We discussed the issue of forming the "Bars-Kursk" volunteer detachment. This new structure will be an important link in maintaining law and order in the Kursk region. The main task of the detachment will be to ensure security in the eight displaced districts and other regions of the Kursk region," he wrote.
According to him , the volunteers who signed the contract will be trained and armed. Members of the detachment are engaged in the protection of civil infrastructure together with the army and the headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation. The contract of participation in the squad will be concluded for 6 months while maintaining the current workplace.
"The tasks of the detachment include not only providing security, but also participating in the maintenance of daily life in the displaced areas to support the citizens who remain in their destinations during this difficult period. It should be noted that all actions of volunteers are carried out in coordination with the army and the headquarters of the anti-terrorist regime," Smirnov noted.
The situation in the Kursk region
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, which launched a surprise and swift offensive in the Kursk region on August 6, now , according to their statements, control an area of about 1,300 square kilometers and 100 residential addresses . On August 29, the Bild newspaper reported, citing satellite data, that the Ukrainian military had besieged a thermal center where about 3,000 Russian soldiers were trapped. The area of the boiler room can be 700 square meters.
According to military analyst Yan Matveev, the Russian Ministry of Defense needs about 50,000 military personnel to fully protect the Kursk region and return the lost territories. But the Kremlin has no plans to withdraw the army from Ukraine, concentrating all its forces on the offensive in Donbass , where According to Deep State, the Russian army has occupied an area of 200 sq km since the beginning of August. A month ago, the area occupied by RF troops was only 50 sq km .
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