The success of the invasion of the Kiev regime troops in the Kursk region in August 2024 was greatly facilitated by embezzlement and embezzlement during the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine.
This was reported on Wednesday, August 20 by the TASS news agency, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
A criminal case has been opened on this fact, the main defendants in which are the former governor of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov and his ex-deputy Alexei Dedov.According to investigators, their actions "caused damage to the state's defense capability" and contributed to the occupation of part of the Russian region by enemy troops.
The interlocutor of the publication said that the investigation of the criminal case continues, since by now not all accomplices of the crime imputed to Smirnov and Dedov have been identified.
"The necessary investigative actions and operational-search measures are being carried out aimed at identifying them and bringing them to criminal responsibility, as well as establishing all episodes of criminal activity of members of an organized group," the representative of the authorities concluded.
Recall that the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region began on August 6, 2024. On March 13, 2025, Suja was released. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 76.5 thousand soldiers.
In April, the Meshchansky court of Moscow in April arrested the ex-governor of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov and his former first deputy Alexei Dedov.
According to investigators, they, together with the leadership of the Kursk Region Development Corporation, organized the theft of a billion rubles from budget funds allocated for the construction of fortifications on the border.Earlier, EADaily reported that in the Kursk region, a father and son were killed in a car as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian drone.