After assessing the Kremlin's actions, analysts came to the conclusion that it failed to foresee the possibility of a significant Ukrainian invasion of Russia.
The Russian authorities and military command are creating a complex and so far ineffective structure to respond to the Ukrainian operation in Kursk region.
This is stated in a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
According to analysts, the Kremlin and the Russian military command are creating a complex, repetitive, and so far ineffective command and control structure to respond to the Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region.
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov announced on August 15 the creation of a “coordinating council” under the ministry for military and security issues in the border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk.
The Russians expect that this body should improve support for their troops covering the state border and will oversee the effective provision of material and technical resources, coordination between forces responding to threats along the border, engineering arrangement of the territory and military medical support.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin set tasks for the Ministry of Defense, the FSB and the Russian National Guard in the Kursk region. However, these structures have not yet taken any significant steps to establish a clearer division of responsibilities.
“The delay in creating a sophisticated Russian structure in the Kursk region continues to highlight the fact that the Kremlin has failed to anticipate the possibility of a significant Ukrainian incursion into Russia… A Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region is likely to broaden the Kremlin's understanding of the type of Ukrainian operations possible along the border, and highlight that Putin and the Kremlin suffer from a strategic lack of understanding,”, the Institute's report says.
Kremlin Shuts Down Military Bloggers
According to analysts, at the same time, the Kremlin has a more coordinated approach to ensuring control over the information space of the Russian Federation than to solving military problems, in particular, in the Kursk region.
Thus, Russian propagandists have already launched a coordinated campaign to discredit so-called military bloggers and social media channels unconnected with the Kremlin that disseminate information about Ukraine's operations in the Kursk region.
“The Kremlin is probably trying to quickly create a new information space in which selected Russian milbloggers and recognized Russian state propagandists will prevail,” ISW assessed.
By the way, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak said that thanks to the operation in the Kursk region, the Kremlin is now trying to create a new information space in which the Russian military is now trying to create a new information space in which the Russian military is now trying to create a new information space in which the Russian military is now trying to create a new information space in which the Ukrainian … “a new, fair topic of potential negotiations has been added to the region – on the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.”
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