Russian military command has redeployed units from the Bakhmut direction to the Kursk region to counter the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ operations, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The report references a statement by a Russian military blogger on August 20, who claimed that the Russian 11th Airborne (VDV) Brigade, previously active near Bakhmut in late July 2024, struck a Ukrainian armored vehicle in southern Russkaya Konopelka (east of Sudzha). The ISW speculates that the Russian military command likely redeployed elements of the 11th VDV Brigade to replace or reinforce fro…