The Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation asks Russian state and Kremlin-loyal media "not to escalate the situation" around the fighting in the Kursk region. These recommendations became known to Medusa journalists, UNN reports with reference to the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security.
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For example, the guidelines state that the Russian media should avoid thinking about "opening a new front" and comparing the situation to the Battle of Kursk in 1943 (when the German offensive ended in retreat).
In addition, Russian journalists are not allowed to talk about the possible advance of Ukrainian troops to Kurchatov, where the Kursk nuclear power plant is located, so that the audience does not have a "sense of nuclear threat.
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Russian telegram channels, as noted by the ASTRA telegram channel, claim that "a military convoy of the Russian Armed Forces was broken up at night near the village of Oktyabrskoye in the Rylsk district of the Kursk region". There is no confirmation of this information.