Russia deploys units to Ukrainian border in Chernihiv and Sumy Oblast to distract Ukrainian Armed Forces 

Strategic Committee of Ukrainian Armed Forces shared the news in Telegram.

Echelons of T-80 tanks from the 239th TZMR (Boguchar) 20A of the Eastern Military District arrive at Klimovo and Suzemka stations of the Bryansk Region, and echelons of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division with tanks of the 18th Motorized Rifle Division of the 11th AK of the Baltic Front go to Suzhi and Lhovo-Kyivskyi of the Kursk Region.

"The number of forces and means of the Russian occupying forces near the border with Sumy and Chernihiv regions is not enough to open, let's say, a second front. But this composition can be shifted in order to intensify actions on the border, which distract the attention of Ukrainian Armed Forces," the department emphasized.

Ukrainian Armed Forces added that the Russians currently lack the resources to open a second front. However, by constantly demonstrating the threat of an offensive, they can constrain the Ukrainian army in order to reduce its counteroffensive potential.

"I would separately like to note that for this purpose the resource will be used not so much from the "native" units of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, but the collective salt marsh from Yelna, Boguchar, and Sovetska," the Stratcom noted.