Russian military command may have redeployed limited units originally intended to reinforce Russia’s offensive operations in the Pokrovsk direction to defend against a Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region. Consequently, the operational pressure from the Ukrainian advance in Kursk is impacting Russian operations across all sectors, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Russian sources, including social media users, reported on August 14 and 17 that at least one company from the Russian 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade (2nd Combined Arms Army [CAA]) had been redeployed from the…