2nd Guards Army Corps
Identity
This record best matches the former 2nd Army Corps, later styled the 2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps, a Russia-controlled formation based in occupied Luhansk, Ukraine. Russian MoD materials stated that the second guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk army corps entered the Russian Armed Forces on December 31, 2022, and Russia’s MoD said the corps were fully incorporated from January 1, 2023. ([osce.org](https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/0/a/190276.pdf))
Hierarchy
The supplied hierarchy is broadly consistent with open sources, but the immediate higher headquarters appears to have changed over time. A Ukrainian OSCE presentation in 2015 placed the 2nd Army Corps in the Russian General Staff → Southern Military District → 12th Reserve Command chain; later Ukrainian defense reporting described the occupied-Donbas corps as part of the Russian 8th Combined Arms Army framework within the Southern Military District. ([osce.org](https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/0/a/190276.pdf))
HQ footprint
Luhansk was not just a nominal headquarters city in earlier open-source order-of-battle reporting. The 2015 OSCE slide deck placed the corps’ commandant regiment, artillery brigade, tank battalion, air-defense battalion, reconnaissance battalion, maintenance battalion, logistics battalion, and headquarters battalion in Luhansk; I did not find a reliable public source that pinpoints the exact street-level headquarters compound. ([osce.org](https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/0/a/190276.pdf))
Placemark
The direct placemark is consistent with the corps’ 4th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade. The OSCE presentation lists the 4th separate mechanized brigade as military unit 74347 at Alchevsk under the 2nd Army Corps, and later open-source reporting also associates v/ch 74347 with Alchevsk. The specific equipment list in the supplied placemark text was not independently confirmed from authoritative sources reviewed. ([osce.org](https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/0/a/190276.pdf))
Current status
As of March 12, 2026, reliable battlefield reporting usually refers to this formation through its apparent successor, Russia’s 3rd Combined Arms Army, rather than as a stand-alone corps. Critical Threats/ISW repeatedly identifies the 3rd CAA as the former 2nd Luhansk People’s Republic Army Corps, and reporting in February 2026 tracked former corps brigades on the Siversk-Slovyansk and Kostyantynivka sectors. ([criticalthreats.org](https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-4-2026?utm_source=openai))
Command
Open-source force directories have listed Maj. Gen. Dmitry Ovcharov as commander of the corps or successor formation, but I did not find a primary-source Russian appointment notice in the materials reviewed. Critical Threats/ISW discussed reports in December 2024 that Ovcharov had been removed as commander of the successor 3rd Combined Arms Army, so the metadata naming him is plausible for 2023-2024 but should not be treated as firmly current for March 2026. ([nightwatch.northernlights.services](https://nightwatch.northernlights.services/list?utm_source=openai))