Kommersant reports General Lapin may chair State Duma’s defense committee. In 2024, he failed to defend Russia’s Kursk region against Ukrainian incursion.

Colonel General Alexander Lapin, who commanded the Central and Leningrad military districts, is under consideration to serve as chairman of the defense committee in the incoming State Duma, the Russian business daily Kommersant reports, citing sources in the lower house of parliament and in United Russia, the country’s ruling party.