ISW has not observed reports that Russian forces are conducting notably large assaults in the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia Oblast border area, however, or accumulating manpower and materiel for an intensified offensive effort comparable to the Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine. Russian forces, on the contrary, have redeployed forces that were previously in the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia Oblast border area and elsewhere in southern Ukraine to respond to Ukraine’s incursion in Kursk."