Deception and Corruption: How Sudzha District Misled Kremlin During Ukraine's Kursk Offensive
An intercepted call by the head of the administration of the Goncharovka settlement in the Sudzha district reveals how the leadership of the Kursk region deceived its residents.
Kyiv Post | August 21, 2024, 11:20 amThe local administration in the Sudzha district deceived both the Russian leadership and local residents during the first days of Ukraine’s offensive into the Kursk region on, according to a Ukrainian Defense Forces phone interception.
In it Oleksandr Harkavenko, the head of the administration of the Goncharovka settlement said:
“We reported very good news to Moscow for two days. At that moment, we were losing so much territory.”
The intercepted conversation was published by the Russian-Israeli entrepreneur Leonid Nevzlin on Aug. 18.
According to him, the leadership of the Kursk region deliberately deceived residents that the situation was under control, while leaving them to their own devices.
A few weeks before the start of the offensive in Goncharovka, Russian troops placed a 122mm Grad multi-barreled rocket launcher system (MLRS) in the middle of a residential area from where it opened fire on Ukraine. . .
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