Posted on 01/29/2025 4:08:45 PM PST by Apparatchik
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors are seeking to recover nearly $33 million of funds that they say were allocated for the defence of the western Kursk region, invaded by Ukraine last year, but stolen instead by corrupt officials.
Ukrainian troops stormed across the border in a surprise attack on Aug. 6 and seized a chunk of Russian territory, some of which they still hold - a valuable bargaining chip for Kyiv in any peace talks with Moscow.
A lawsuit filed by the office of Russia's Prosecutor General orders the head of the Kursk Regional Development Corporation, his deputies and a number of businessmen to repay more than 3.2 billion roubles ($32.7 million) allegedly embezzled from the regional defence budget, state news agency RIA reported.
In the two years prior to Ukraine's attack, the governor in charge of Kursk at the time had repeatedly told the public that Russia had boosted its fortifications along the region's 150-mile (240 km) border with Ukraine.
"Right now the risk of an armed invasion of the territory of Kursk region from Ukraine is not high," Roman Starovoit assured residents in November 2022. "However, we are constantly working to strengthen the region's defence capabilities."
The next month, he posed in a snowy field beside a row of pyramid-shaped anti-tank defences known as "dragon's teeth".
But in the autumn of 2023, Ukraine's National Resistance Center, created by the special operations forces, said in an online post that reconnaissance showed "almost all the strongholds are deserted of personnel and equipment" along the border with Kursk. Corruption was a factor, it said.
That's pocket change for Zelensky and Biden.
Front advancing 100 miles in 3 years, with 220,000 Russian troops dead
= “Russian Blitzkrieg”
Sounds like they’ve been moneylaundering too, just like Zelensky, and the Biden Admin has done all this time. Even more reason not to throw any more money or military aide to feed yet another proxy war with Russia.
Linkie no workie.
Putin and his supporters are the biggest f___ing crooks in the World. They govern by kleptomania.
It wouldn’t pay for one of Putin’s dachas.
More projection from the Corrupt Ukraine faction.
In France, when you betray the Republic, you become accident prone. You get a nice funeral and everyone know what really happened—it was more than a freak accident. Russia is quicker. A bullet in the head or a fall from a high building—but they do give you a nice funeral. Betray Mother Russia—you die.
This from someone who cheered on Biden's war effort for four years.
Do you realize America is in debt x $36 trillion dollars? Please, focus on our problems.
Ukraine is negotiating with the EU to replace US aid due to the suspension of funding for USAID projects.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine admitted that the country was not ready for such events. pic.twitter.com/lHU9ZoYuLL— Tony (@Cyberspec1) January 29, 2025
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
“Lawsuit Says Russian Officials Stole Millions Meant to Fortify Border Region Attacked by Ukraine”
I guess the difference is that these Russian officials did not steal the money from AMERICANS.
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