Video: New Kurshchyna Governor Sent Direct Message at Meeting

During a meeting of the Kursk Oblast government on June 15, 2026, a major scandal erupted: the region’s governor, Alexander Khinshtein, was rudely interrupted by someone shouting, “Get out!” The emotional outburst came from one of the local officials, who was connected to the video conference via a feedback loop. 

The regional head reacted instantly to the incident, ordering technical staff to immediately identify the source of the sound, and promised to address the situation in a “much tougher” manner.

Soon, technical specialists reported to Khinshtein that the scandalous shout had come from a studio in the Lgovsky District of the Kursk Region. After the governor demanded a live connection, Pavel Vertikov, the acting head of that district, appeared on screen. When the regional leader directly asked whom the words “get out” were directed at, the district official initially tried to make excuses and claimed that he “had no idea what was being discussed,” since there was allegedly no connection in their studio due to equipment settings.

However, after the Kursk governor again demanded an explanation, Vertikov was forced to back down from his initial story. The district head officially acknowledged that an employee was indeed present in the office and added that these words were spoken during their internal private conversation, which accidentally made it onto the public broadcast of the government meeting.

Alexander Khinshtein, governor of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, reported that 507 civilians had been killed as a result of hostilities in the region. He announced these figures during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

As a reminder, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a Russian command and observation post in the Tyotkino area of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, as well as a number of other enemy targets in the Kherson, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions.