Russian marines in Crimea pay commanders to avoid deployment to Kursk
Illustrative photo: Russian marines in Crimea pay their commanders to avoid fighting in the Kursk region (Getty Images)
Russian marines in Crimea pay their commanders to avoid being sent to fight in the Kursk region. The command is attempting to hide information about losses, according to information from the partisan movement ATESH.
"An agent from the 810th Marine Brigade reports that at the unit's permanent station in Sevastopol, personnel issues are arising due to most of the personnel being sent to the Kursk region," the message reads.
According to partisans, almost daily, reports are received about new KIAs (killed in action) from the Kursk region, and the brigade's command is trying to hide the facts of military deaths, although, as expected, without success.
"The soldiers in the unit are in low morale due to the constant deaths of their comrades and are trying in every possible way to remain in Crimea. As a result, some commanders are demanding bribes from subordinates to grant a delay and avoid urgent deployment to the combat zone," ATESH notes.
Those who managed to pay and stay at the base are pretending to work actively by setting up camouflage barriers and moving equipment around.
Russia's 810th Marine Brigade
The 810th Marine Brigade of Russia, based in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol (Crimea), is involved in the war in Ukraine in the Kursk region. In June, partisans obtained documents from the occupiers of the 126th and 810th Crimean brigades.
Notably, in November 2023, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the 810th Brigade, which they called retaliation for the 128th Brigade, which was targeted by Russian forces at the beginning of that month. At the time, the 128th Brigade, stationed in a front-line village in the Zaporizhzhia region, had been assembled for an award ceremony for Ukraine's Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.
