Russian military command is moving an unspecified number of forces to the Ukrainian-Russian border area near Kharkiv Oblast, but it is not clear whether the Russian military command plans to immediately commit these transferred forces to combat operations or to use them to reinforce the Northern Force Group to bring it closer to its planned final strength.
These are words for elite Chechen units and formations of the Russian military-portable forces.
This is stated in the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) daily analysis.
Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets noted on June 8 that a small fraction of the reported 30,000 personnel Russia generates each month arrive at the front as replacements and reinforcements for combat forces, and that Russia's force generation efforts are allowed Russian forces to build up only limited operational and strategic reserves.
On the night of June 7-8, Ukrainian forces carried out a drone attack on a Russian military airport in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
The Russian strikes have caused extensive damage to Ukraine's energy grid, and Ukraine will continue to face severe constraints on electricity generation capacity.
US President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on June 7.
Longtime head of Russia's central bank Elvira Nabiulina is a balancing force among Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic advisers despite pressure on Russian officials to unequivocally support the long-term military effort in Ukraine.
The Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR) and Russian opposition media reported that on June 7 in Stari Oskol, Belgorod Region, unidentified persons tried to kill the former mayor of the Russian-occupied city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv Region, Khennadiy Matsehora.
Recently, Russian forces advanced north of the city of Kharkiv, southeast of Kupyansk, within the easternmost part of the city of Chasov Yar, northwest of Avdeevka and southwest of the city of Donetsk.
Russian actors are using video addresses from Russian military personnel to refute reports of heavy Russian losses in the northern part of Kharkiv Oblast.