WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on May 4, 2026, by Alex Horobets, a PhD candidate at the Institute of History of Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor:

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Kremlin Uses Corruption Charges to Militarize Frontline Regions

Executive Summary:

* Criminal cases related to embezzlement in defensive fortification construction in Russia's Kursk, Belgorod . . .

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