- 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
Motor-rifle division of the 20th Army re-formed in 2016 at Valuyki in Belgorod oblast, on the Ukrainian border itself; committed on the Kharkiv axis in 2022 and tracked on the Kupiansk 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: Belgorod oblast, on the border. Wartime: the Kharkiv axis in 2022 and the Kupiansk sector since, by ISW's tracking. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- Re-formed in 2016 at Valuyki, a garrison town a few kilometres from the Ukrainian border, as the 20th Army's second division in the post-2014 return to divisional structures — the most literal expression of the frontier the army was rebuilt for. In 2022 it was committed on the Kharkiv axis and driven back in the September counteroffensive; it has since been among the formations tracked on the Kupiansk sector, and its home region has been the war's most exposed Russian territory, reached by Ukrainian cross-border raids in 2023–24.
- Strengths
- A division garrisoned on the axis it fights, with the shortest lines of any formation in this atlas and the artillery a divisional structure brings.
- Limitations
- Filled slowly after its 2016 re-formation and reconstituted after 2022; its garrison region is itself within Ukrainian reach. Nothing below the division is authored.
Lineage & institutional history
Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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