Scores of Job Ads for Trench Diggers Appear Online as Ukraine Advances in Kursk Region

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Scores of job advertisements for trench diggers and construction workers in the Kursk region have appeared online in recent days as Russian
Wednesday that it found at least 30 listings for trench diggers on the classifieds website Avito, offering up to 371,000 rubles ($4,000) for
company said it had reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry about the listings.The surge in job advertisements comes after satellite
images published earlier this week revealed newly dug trenches along roads and villages in the Kursk region, as well as the Kursk nuclear
the recruiter, the construction company offers daily pay ranging from 5,000 to 7,000 rubles ($56-79), with the possibility of negotiating
weekends off
Moscow or St
Petersburg for up to two weeks before being sent to work in the Kursk region .U.S
military analysts said over the weekend that the Russian military will likely commit more of its resources and manpower to constructing
border fortifications after existing structures proved incapable of stopping the Ukrainian offensive.With reporting by Kirill Ponomarev.A
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