The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the GRU - Ed.) transferred units of its two Special Purpose brigades closer to the borders with Ukraine. The enemy resorted to this for counter-diversion measures and provocations. Special forces were stationed in the border areas of the Russian Kursk Region. This is stated in the summary of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), citing a Ukrainian source.
So, on May 19, the Ukrainian Resistance Center announced that the 3rd and 22nd Guards Special Purpose brigades of the GRU were transferred to the village of Tyotkino, allegedly to prevent the "cross-border Ukrainian partisan activities," as well as to carry out provocations and raise the morale of Russian troops.
According to ISW analysts, such deployment of occupiers on the border is probably an attempt to consolidate the attention of part of the Ukrainian forces in the border regions, thus diverting them from critical frontline areas.
Earlier it was reported that units of the 3rd Guards Special Purpose Brigade were recorded in the area of Kreminna in the Luhansk Region. While units of the 22nd Brigade operated in the Orikhiv area in the west of the Zaporizhzhia Region.
Analysts have not yet established why the Russian military leadership could decide to withdraw such elements from the active sectors of the front line to the Russian rear.
“It may be possible that these units suffered previous losses in recent operations and have been withdrawn and redeployed in order to rest and refit. The deployment of these units to border areas is unlikely to have the desired informational or operational effects," the ISW stated.
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