Paul Goble
Staunton, July 11 – Men wearing Russian army uniforms are running amok in parts of Belgorod Oblast, a Russian region that neighbors Ukraine. Residents believe that these are Russian soldiers, but officials and the military say that these marauders and looters are criminals who have been able to get uniforms in an attempt to hide what they are doing.
However that may be, the Veter portal says, in many villages, there are no police at all; and in no place in the oblast have charges been brought against any of them, a pattern that reflects the growing weakness of Russian government agencies there (veter.info/posts/xcuFvrrirHbc reproduced at novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/07/11/kto-voruet-domovoi, kommersant.ru/doc/6029717 and go31.ru/news/obshchestvo/glavnoe-voennoe-sledstvennoe-upravlenie-ne-vedyet-dela-o-marodyerstve-v-belgorodskoy-oblasti/).
For a broader discussion of the decay of the Russian military and Russian authority in Russian areas adjoining Ukraine, see https://jamestown.org/program/moscow-losing-out-to-criminals-in-russian-regions-along-ukrainian-border/.
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