![]() ![]() Russian officials have accused a former employee at the US Consulate in the eastern port city of Vladivostok of collecting information about Russian action in Ukraine and related issues on US diplomats' orders. Relatively elite units were previously redeployed from the Kherson region to defend against Ukraine's counteroffensive in Bakhmut, in another example of Russia's reliance on certain experienced soldiers. "The degradation of these forces will likely weaken Russia's ability to sustain complex defensive operations and almost certainly disrupt any Russian intent to resume offensive operations at scale, which have predominantly relied on relatively elite infantry that Russia now lacks," the ISW said. The increasing frequency of their deployment in both offensive and defensive operations has "likely degraded" Russia's elite infantry, said the US thinktank. The 76 Guards Air Assault (VDV) is the second elite division to be sent to reinforce "critical sectors" in the Zaporizhzhia region, after Ukraine said it had recaptured Robotyne village, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Russia has continued to deploy "elite" troops to weak areas of the frontline at the expense of future offensive operations, military analysts have said.
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