According to Information Resistance operational data, in the past 24 hours two tactical battalion groups were deployed to border districts of Russia near the border with Ukraine in addition to Russian troops already deployed there.

One of them is towards the direction of Chernihiv [a city 2 hours away from Kyiv by car], another is in a direction towards Kharkiv [close to Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts].

Earlier, according to our data, a convoy of military equipment arrived in Kursk Oblast (Russia). Some of the equipment bears the symbols of the Russian “peacekeeping forces.” The convoy was registered at a distance of about 25 km from the state border with Ukraine in the direction of Glukhiv (Sumy Oblast, Ukraine).

According to preliminary data, the convoy is formed from units of the 15th Separate Guards Motorized Brigade of the Central Military District [CMD] of the Armed Forces of Russia. This brigade was involved in a random inspection of the CMD troops in late June and rehearsed undertaking a peacekeeping operation.

Dmitry Tymchuk, Coordinator, Information Resistance

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine