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A Russian general dismantled a council charged with overseeing security in Russia's Kursk Oblast in the spring, weakening border defenses before Ukraine's unprecedented incursion, WS Journal reported on Aug. 21. Citing an official in the Russian security services, the Colonel General Alexander Lapin claimed the Kremlin's military could effectively defend the border on its own. As a result, he dissolved an interagency council consisting of military officers and local and regional security officials which would have been tasked with helping Moscow form a coherent response to an incursion by Ukraine stresses Russia would likely still have struggled to respond events since unfolded in Kursk, it added to the confusion disorganization on show as Moscow has tried to oust Ukraine's army from Russian soil.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-gene...j-reports/