These images are reportedly out of Kherson, and they're emerging today, April 20th. These look like better rifles and gear than I've seen Ukrainians with, which, considering we're arming the Ukrainians and not the Russians, is rather annoying.
Compare this to the ROSGVARDIIA gear we've seen.
Unlike the Russian National Guard guys in image #2, the FSB people have infrared lasers and infrared strobes on their gear; these are soldiers who train to fight under night vision. Their daytime optics are also clearly of Western manufacture (and in violation of ITAR) and not Russian rip-offs.
That is definitely an Eotech 552, for instance, not the Russian copy; it's favored for NV applications because other optics are really hard to "catch" under night vision.
This is an Eotech 552, from the manufacturer’s website:
This is the Russian copy.
However that person ended up with an American-manufactured L3/Harris Eotech 552 sight on his rifle, there was probably a law broken at some point, I'm going to say.
Same thing for the Aimpoint CompM4. This is a CompM4:
This is the rifle optic in the photos today:
In fact, they are wearing "high cut" helmets and pouches, clothes, load-bearing equipment and armor that look like copies of American designs, if not outright American products.
Their gear also appears to match the March 19th footage alleged to be FSB Alpha Group, also from Kherson, analyzed here. The FSB cats are indeed a cut above.
If you look at the video, it looks pretty clearly staged; it's probably just the second time they've raided that house, the first time for real, the second time staged like this.
It's also similar to the March 11th Kherson footage; a few people back then were asking, why don't they clear the side halls, and why are they moving so lackadaisically?
I think the answer is the same in both cases: this is military theater, and while it’s being used in a somewhat unique way as both psychological warfare and regime-internal propaganda, it reveals something non-trivial about how Russian decisionmakers are allocating assets to tasks.
At least in the abstract, considering our historical positions, and also the rather confusing situation this creates on the battlefield, since Ukrainians also use the virtually the same gear, elite Russian internal-regime security troops clad in Western gear must be considered as at least somewhat notable.