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In Kursk Oblast, they want to hold a religious procession against the Ukrainian offensive. Belousov hands over a relic over which Patriarch Kirill read “special prayers” The acting governor of Kursk Oblast, Alexey Smirnov, proposed holding a religious procession in order to protect the region from the current offensive of Ukrainian troops. Andrey Belousov warmly supported him in this matter.
“Andrey Removich continues to believe that the relics of Saint Matrona of Moscow will help us defeat the enemy. They helped us advance, beat the Nazis in Kiev (we wrote about this, - ed.). They will help our army now. It cannot be that God has turned away from Russia,” a source close to Belousov told us.
According to him, the Minister of Defense has already asked Patriarch Kirill to read “special powerful prayers aimed at our victory” over the relics. They also plan to hand over several icons from the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, the main temple of our army, for the religious procession. According to sources in the Russian Orthodox Church, the procession will most likely go from the Znamensky Bogoroditsky Monastery in Kursk to the Kursk Root Hermitage. At the same time, the date and time of the procession will be kept secret until the very end, so that, according to one of the interlocutors in the Church, “monks, soldiers and other participants are not killed.”
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It will surely work. ;-)
Why can't the Ukrainian Armed Forces be stopped?
Many critical publications have appeared in war correspondents’ channels over the past week. And many of them are on point. Intelligence has completely failed the preparation stage for a major enemy breakthrough. By the end of the week, Ukrainian troops have already broken through several sections of the border. So far, solitary sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been spotted in the Bryansk region, but the authorities on the ground should not yawn either.
Sources in the Defense Ministry admit that real chaos reigned on the ground in the first days. “Some units were transferred to the DPR 2 days before the Ukrainian Armed Forces broke through. It is possible that we are talking about deliberate sabotage. An investigation is underway. Also, our troops in the Kursk border area had no electronic warfare or secure communications equipment. The surprise (attack - Ed.) caused entire squads of soldiers to leave the battlefield, and the enemy used this to advance deeper into the region,” a source in the Defense Ministry said.
According to a source in the General Staff, the transfer of reserves took an inadmissibly long time. He explained the movement of the military in columns by haste. The attack on the column in the Rylsk region took the lives of 143 servicemen!
There is a big problem with reserves - for some reason there is no visual evidence of successful battles of the Russian Armed Forces, which war correspondents talk about. There is a fear that official bodies and related Telegram channels are lying again.
It is worth mentioning separately that local residents practically did not offer any resistance to the enemy. The FSB attributes this to the fact that mostly pensioners lived in the border area. It is also important to emphasize that the Armed Forces of Ukraine use a large number of drones and electronic warfare systems, which was not the case in the Kursk region. And because of this, among other things, our aviation suffers. We have not yet published exact figures on losses, but everything is serious there. Alas. In general, the enemy is using a maneuverable approach and it is very sad to see that, by and large, our command has been unable to counter them. Probably, some personnel adjustments will be made in the General Staff. In any case, it would be a logical solution.
Belousov was invited to Kursk to participate in the religious procession against the Ukrainian offensive
We wrote that Andrei Belousov decided to donate the relics of Saint Matrona of Moscow and several icons for the religious procession in Kursk. They want to hold it to stop the offensive of Ukrainian troops. We learned that the Minister of Defense received an offer from Acting Governor Alexei Smirnov to come to Kursk and personally take part in this religious procession.
“Andrei Removich received the offer. But now he has a lot of things to do. I don't know if he will be able to come to Kursk,” our source close to Belousov said about this.
At the same time, many military personnel who are currently in the Kursk region believe that it would be nice if someone from the country's leadership visited the region and “showed that everything will be fine.”
“Of course, we don't expect to see Vladimir Vladimirovich here. But I would personally be glad to see the Minister of Defense or the Chief of the General Staff. Many of the soldiers are not very motivated, and their fighting spirit needs to be raised. Moreover, even Shoigu has been to the front. And we have more hopes for Andrei Removich,” an officer we know explained to us.
At the same time, we have information that several priests are planning to independently organize religious processions in Kursk and the region. “People believe that they will stop the enemy - with prayer, icons, and the relics of saints. God will save people like them. Together with our entire country,” a source in the Church close to Patriarch Kirill commented on this information.
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When you run out of real things, there's magic and superstition. It suggests that it is not only Russia's economy that is crashing.