- 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
Far Eastern combined-arms army headquartered at Ussuriysk, deployed west in 2022; long service on the southern Donetsk axis from the Vuhledar assaults to the 2024 capture of Kurakhove, for which the ministry publicly commended its brigades.
- 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 Primorye region on the Chinese border, from Ussuriysk. Wartime: the southern Donetsk axis — Vuhledar in 2022–23, Kurakhove in 2024 — by ISW's tracking. No disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- A Soviet field army of the Far East, kept after 1991 as the Primorye command facing China and moved west in 2022 for a war on the other side of the continent. Its brigades were committed on the southern Donetsk axis, where a tank brigade took part in the Vuhledar assaults that became the war's most filmed armoured losses, and remained on that axis through the slow advance of 2024 that ended at Kurakhove — a capture for which the Defence Minister publicly commended the army's brigades. It is the district's only army carried in this module and the clearest case of a peacetime formation used as a source of units for a distant front.
- Strengths
- A standing army headquarters with its own artillery, and by 2024 two years on one axis, which produced the positional knowledge behind the Kurakhove advance.
- Limitations
- Fights further from home than any formation in this atlas; was rebuilt after Vuhledar with mobilised manpower; and the peacetime tree here is not the wartime grouping. Nothing below the army is authored.
Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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