Russia was going to take Kyiv in 3 days. Now it’s installing concrete shelters at home.

KYIV — Reinforced concrete shelters will be installed across the Kursk region, local Russian authorities announced Thursday as Ukraine keeps up its daring attack on Moscow’s territory.
“Today we began to install reinforced concrete shelters in Kursk. On my instructions, the Kursk city administration identified key points for placing concrete modular shelters in crowded places,” Aleksey Smirnov, Kursk’s acting governor, said in a statement.
Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion earlier this month caught the Russians on the hop, and Kyiv’s forces have expanded their offensive, capturing more towns and territory with little resistance.
The attack aims to tilt the battlefield in Ukraine’s favor — even while Russia advances in Ukraine’s Donetsk region — in a full-scale war instigated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2022 during which his forces initially aimed to quickly topple Ukraine’s leadership and subjugate the country.
But back home, Russian authorities now plan to equip 60 main public transport stations in Kursk with reinforced concrete shelters. Smirnov said similar shelters will be installed in the cities of Zheleznogorsk and Kurchatov in the Kursk region.
Meanwhile, the first Ukrainian military office in Sudzha inside Russia was launched under the command of Ukrainian Army Major General Eduard Moskaliov to provide humanitarian assistance to local residents and control evacuation corridors. Under international law, Ukraine must provide such assistance for Russians on the territories it controls.
Ukrainian forces have continued slowly pushing forward in the Kursk region, where the 22nd brigade of Kyiv’s land forces took more prisoners on Thursday. 
“We have good results, getting new prisoners of war, which means more of our boys and girls could be returned home soon,” the land forces press service said in a Telegram statement Wednesday evening.