1/ recriminations are continuing over the failure of russia's border defences in the kursk region. fraud, substitution of expensive materials with cheap ones and "the creation of a dozen shady companies with shady contractors and employees" are blamed.  >  847660595379605915   49359441168072869 2/ russian milbloggers roman alekhine and anastasia kashevarova are presenting conflicting arguments about what happened on the border in the kursk region. russian investigators are reported to have confiscated some dragon's teeth to inspect them for quality deficiencies. 3/ alekhine defends the contractors, who he says were working in difficult conditions that included employees being hit by ukrainian fire: "there was a leak in the media that contracts were not fulfilled by a number of subcontractors 4/ who took on something they had no experience with and went down in the places where the shelling began. they were quickly replaced, people's wage arrears were paid off, as far as i know. 5/ "in fact, the fortifications were completed on 1 february 2023, and at the same time they were transferred to the ministry of defence and the border guard service, which is confirmed by the relevant acts signed by representatives of the departments. and this is a fact! ... 6/ "by the way, one of the contentious points is people, that is, entrepreneurs, whose employees were injured, who, with the beginning of the shelling, had to pay much higher salaries and who lost a lot of construction equipment under shelling, 7/ which the insurance company refused to reimburse, and it is the authorities who have been looking for solutions since february, including through the court. 8/ "well, i will summarize with general information: in 2022-2023, civilian builders built an echeloned defense line consisting of battalion defence areas and more than 330 kilometers of barrier line with an anti-tank ditch." > part 1
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