They lose daily on the battalion. Why the Russian Federation throws the 25th Army to Ukraine
In the intelligence of the UK Ministry of Defense, they are convinced that the occupiers were thrown to the Lugansk region and in the northeast of Ukraine. The newly formed military association was sent to the region due to lack of reserves. The scouts noticed that in August this year, there were announcements in Russia about the recruitment of men to the 25th Army, which would be launched in Ukraine only since December 2023.
"Probably, the units were immediately introduced into battle because Russia is fighting with very stretched forces along the front line. The Russian Federation will try to use parts of the 25th Army to restore unattached reserve forces in the theater of war to give commanders greater operational flexibility, the British Defense Ministry noted. British intelligence reported on the formation of this military unit to strengthen Russia's land forces on August 2 this year.
The Russian Federation involved mobilized reservists to replenish the formations and infantry regiments of territorial defense, but rarely created new general military organizations. "The exception was created in the summer of 2022 by the 3rd Army Corps, which in general proved to be bad," the ministry noted. According to the Colonel of the Armed Forces in stock, military instructor pilot Roman Svitan, the 25th army exists only on paper.
It is impossible to form an army in two weeks or a month, so the units are performed as army, and in reality they are battalions, brigades or regiments. "The Russians lack reserves and therefore put them in the Lugansk direction, and from there they take to Zaporizhzhya more fired units of the 41st Army. Not the army is thrown away, but a battalion of 500 people. The new thing is happening, gave the minimum trained battalion equipment and sent to the front. ", - said the military.
In Ukraine, according to Svitan, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lose more battalion and strength should be replenished. Now we have to collect people from the not yet formed army, he said. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation actively move parts from Kupyansk-Liman direction, Crimea and left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region to Tokmak, Berdyansk and Volnovakha.
If the invaders could create a new army, why then move the troops along the front line, the military expert, the reserve Major of the Armed Forces Alexei Hetman. "There are no new people, techniques and shells. There have been added general positions. The rear of Russia has no strength from which you can create an army and involve in hostilities," the hetman commented. In the Luhansk region, the Russians have up to 130 thousand military, more than 350 RSSUs and 2 thousand units of heavy equipment.
They want to call some of these forces a "new army", summed up a specialist. Russian warriors noted that the 25th Army in Russia's Land Forces was a backup part and began to form it in early June 2023 on the basis of the military-administrative unit of the Eastern Military District. The number of the new 25th Army was to be about 30,000 military contracts, consisting of at least two motorized rifle divisions, tank battalions and artillery divisions.
The administration of the city of Dalalgorsk Primorsky region in early June this year proposed to join the new 25th Army of Russia. The occupiers were promised a payment of 600 thousand rubles for those who have concluded the contract and a permanent salary of more than 200 thousand rubles for "work" in Ukraine. The 25th Army servicemen from September 1 to December 1, 2023 must undergo combat coordination, and then relocate to Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions.
In June, the General Staff of the Russian Army declared plans to form two armies in 2023 - all -military and air, as well as two military districts - Moscow and Leningrad. "It is necessary to carry out organizational and staffing for the formation of general military and air armies, the Army Corps, the Azov Naval District, five divisions and 26 brigades, the creation of Moscow and Leningrad military districts,"-said the Deputy Head of General Staff Yevgeny Bourdynsky.
It should be reminded that the American Institute of War Study has reported a new wave of mobilization in Russia to replenish the occupation troops in Ukraine. 170 to 175 thousand reservists and "contractual mobilization" are expected for another 130,000 people. Focus earlier wrote about the likelihood of announcing a new wave of mobilization in Russia at the end of September.