New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the responsibility of overseeing the operations aimed at pushing back Ukrainian forces from his country to his former personal bodyguard, according to media reports.
A trusted aide of Putin, Alexey Dyumin has been entrusted with the role. However, no formal announcement has been made yet. Dyumin has been commissioned to supervise the military and civilian response to the incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region.
Earlier in May, Putin had appointed Dyumin as the secretary of Russia’s State Council, a key position within the body tasked with shaping “strategic goals and tasks of domestic and foreign policy.”
However, Dyumin does not hold an official role within the Defense Ministry or the Federal Security Service, which the president publicly tasked on Monday with pushing back Ukrainian forces from Russia.
No comments have been made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in this regard yet.
Ukrainian Troops Invaded Russia
Meanwhile, Russia has accused Ukraine of invading its territory. Russia said that its military recently checked an effort by Ukrainian troops to expand a week-long incursion into the Kursk region while as a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Kyiv has no intention of occupying Russian territory.
Putin’s armed forces, including fresh reserves, aircraft, drones and artillery forces, prevented Ukrainian armoured mobile groups from pushing deeper into Russian province of Kursk.
As per a Russian Defense Ministry statement, Ukrainian troops pushed ahead in Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk and Alexeyevsky areas in Kursk region.
In a surprising move, war-torn Ukraine had on August 6 launched an audacious military offensive, planned and executed in secrecy, aiming to upend the dynamics of a war which it has appeared to be losing, town by town, as Russian troops push deeper in the east.
The military operation left even Kyiv’s closest allies, including the United States, surprised and has pushed the limits of how Western military equipment would be permitted to be used inside Russian territory.
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