Telegram channels accused Gerasimov of ignoring reports of an upcoming raid by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region

The Rybar Telegram channel, close to the Ministry of Defense, wrote that the military command did not pay attention to reports from the field about the upcoming attack by Ukrainian troops. According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, the deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District, Esedulla Abachev, reported on the preparation of the offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov.

Details . Rybar wrote about the lack of response from the command in a post entitled "Kursk direction: who is to blame and what to do." "Amid the euphoria, no attention was paid to reports from the Kursk tactical direction and the North group of troops about problems, about the enemy pulling up forces and preparing to strike with the aim of cutting off Belgorod from the north," the channel writes.

• Rybar writes that the Kursk tactical direction is headed by the deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District, Esedulla Abachev.
• The channel does not name who specifically ignored the reports of the upcoming raid. However, it is known that since January 2023, Gerasimov has been in command of the Russian troop group in Ukraine.
• The information from Rybar correlates with the data published in the morning by VChK-OGPU. According to the channel, two weeks ago Abachev reported to Gerasimov that Ukraine was preparing to enter the Kursk region. To this, as the channel writes, Gerasimov responded with a call “not to stir up panic” and “not to fall for the enemy’s disinformation.” Also, according to the channel, shortly before Ukraine’s offensive, the General Staff withdrew some of its forces and resources from the Kursk region.
• Abachev took charge of the Kursk direction in 2024, Rybar writes. That same year, he became deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District. Before that, from 2022, he was commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the People's Militia of the "LPR". In 2022, he received the title Hero of Russia for the capture of Lisichansk in the Luhansk region. Before the war in Ukraine, Abachev participated in the operation in Syria, the war in Georgia in 2008, the second Chechen war and the Karabakh conflict.

Context . The day before, Gerasimov reported to Vladimir Putin that the advance of Ukrainian troops "deep into Russian territory in the Kursk direction has been stopped." However, after that, their advance continued , and the area of ​​territory engulfed in combat reached 430 square kilometers.