- Service ensign · official · carried by Ground Forces
- State affiliation · Russia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Flag of the Russian Ground Forces — carried by Ground Forces, not issued to this record. The service flag of the Ground Forces, adopted 2004. The design itself is not an object of copyright: Article 1259(6) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation excludes official symbols and signs. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Flag of the Russian Ground Forces.svg", released under PD-RU-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Russia.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
Volga-region combined-arms army headquartered at Samara, committed since the first weeks of the invasion on the Kharkiv and Izium axes and tracked on the Kupiansk–Lyman sector since.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 5 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Peacetime: the middle Volga, from Samara. Wartime: the Kharkiv and Izium axes in 2022 and the Kupiansk–Lyman sector since, by ISW's tracking. No disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- A Soviet field army re-formed in 2001 at Samara as the Volga region's command and the western of the Central Military District's two armies. It entered Ukraine in the first weeks of the invasion on the northern Kharkiv axis and reinforced the Izium bridgehead in spring 2022, and was among the formations driven back across the Oskil in the September 2022 counteroffensive. Since then its brigades have been tracked in the Kupiansk and Lyman sectors under the Western Group of Forces, fighting a thousand kilometres from their home stations — the pattern for every formation of a district whose function in this war is to supply units.
- Strengths
- A standing field army with its own artillery and support structure, the Urals industrial base behind it, and continuous employment on one sector since 2022.
- Limitations
- Fought far from home from the first day; its 2022 formations were reconstituted after Kharkiv; and the peacetime tree drawn here is not the wartime grouping it fights in.
Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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