It will be interesting to see how General Valery Gerasimov uses the 25th Army.
According to the data I have the Soviet 25th Army was formed in the Far East Military District in June, 1941, consisting of the Soviet 39th Rifle Corps and six unidentified rifle divisions.
The 25th Army spent the great bulk of its time in the backwater of the Far East military district as a border guard unit, until it participated in the Harbin-Girin Offensive Operation that defeated Japan.
According to defense-ua.com, the 25th Army consists of 67th Motorized Rifle Division, 164th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, 11th Separate Tank Brigade, and the 73rd Artillery Brigade.
[LB] According to British intelligence, it is unlikely that the Russian Federation will go on the offensive in the coming weeks, instead it will strengthen at the front.
by Iryna Lysohor
In mid-September, the Russian Federation most likely sent its new 25th combined army to war for the first time. This formation started moving to Ukraine from the end of August.
There is evidence that units of two of the 25 maneuver components of the 25th Army - the 67th motorized rifle division and the 164th separate motorized rifle brigade - are fighting at the front in the area west of Severodonetsk and Kreminnaya, along the border between Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This is stated in the report of the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain.
"Since the beginning of the invasion, Russia has only rarely kept an army group inactive that could potentially become the basis of a new major offensive strike," the British noted.
They suggested that Russia was unlikely to go on the offensive in the coming weeks as the 25th Army deployed to reinforce the stretched front line.
On September 13, the British Ministry of Defense announced that the Russians had prematurely committed the 25th Army to the war . At first they planned to use it in December.
The 25th combined army existed during the Soviet Union and was active during the Second World War. In 2023, the Russians decided to restore the formation with this name. As early as August, British intelligence warned of Russian preparations for reinforcements by two large formations, one of which was the 25th Army.
