ISW: Russia could form a new army for deployment in Ukraine

ISW: Russia could form a new army for deployment in Ukraine

Russia could form another combined arms army to deploy in Ukraine.

This became known from a report by the Institute for the Study of War ( ISW )

Verbatim: “The Russian army is undergoing large-scale reforms, including the creation of new army-level combined arms formations, and the reference by Ukrainian sources to the “51st Army” may be an early indicator that Russia has formed another combined arms army for deployment in Ukraine.”

Details: Military analysts noted that the speaker of the Operational-Tactical Group of Troops "Kharkiv" Yuriy Povkh said that the Russian military intends to transfer units of the "9th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army" to the Kharkiv direction.

Povkh said that Russian troops transferred Russian units from the Kherson region and other directions to the Kharkiv direction.

The representative of the operational-strategic group of troops "Khortytsia", Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshyn, also said that Russian troops intend to transfer units of the 155th Marine Brigade (Pacific Fleet) and the "9th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army" to the Kharkiv direction in order to compensate for the heavy Russian losses.

ISW recently received a report that the Russian military had transferred units of the 155th Marine Brigade and the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade (1st Army Corps "DPR") from the west and southwest of Donetsk to the Kharkov direction, but did not record any reports about the Russian "51st Army".

ISW noted that the Russian military may have subordinated the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade to the revived, possibly from World War II, “51st Army.”

Key ISW findings for June 25:

• Two major international bodies, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), announced a decision on June 25 confirming Russia’s continued commitment of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.
• Russia and Venezuela have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at countering “coercive measures,” likely to demonstrate to the West that the Kremlin has influence in the Western Hemisphere.
• Ukrainian forces carried out a drone strike on a Russian ammunition train in the Voronezh region on June 25, and recently attacked Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile systems in the Belgorod region with unidentified weapons.
• Russia imposed counter-sanctions on 81 European Union-based media outlets on June 25, after the EU imposed sanctions on four state-linked Russian media outlets on June 24.
• The head of the Republic of Dagestan, Serhiy Melikov, ordered a review of the personal files of top Dagestan officials following the suspected June 23 terrorist attacks in the village of Kavkaz, indicating that the Kremlin may be stepping up efforts to counter Islamist extremist threats in the North Caucasus in an attempt to save lives.
• Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who lives in Lithuania, on June 20 in Vilnius amid deteriorating Armenian-Belarusian relations
• Ukrainian troops have recently regained lost positions in Volchansk, and Russian troops have recently advanced near Siversk and Avdiivka.
• A Russian military blogger said that the Russian Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Russian Army, Aviation and Navy will begin training unspecified Russian military personnel from October 1, 2024.