11th Army Corps (Russian Federation)

The 11th Army Corps, (Russian: 11-й армейский корпус, romanized: 11-y Armeyskiy Korpus) is a tactical formation of the Russian Ground Forces, formed in 2016 as part of the Coastal Troops of the Baltic Fleet, currently in the Leningrad Military District.

[5] The Corps included an artillery brigade (with BM-27 Uragan and BM-30 Smerch heavy rocket launchers), missile and motor rifle brigades, and regiments for tanks, motor rifle and air defense.

On 26 October 2022, Reuters published a special report regarding the defeat and retreat of an 11th Army detachment under colonel Ivan Popov and thousands of documents left in a base in Balakliia after the Ukrainian eastern Kharkiv counteroffensive 6–8 September.

In an action near Hrakove on 19 July, thirty-nine men were wounded, seven were dead, and 17 were reported missing, with a tank and two APCs lost.

[7] In October 2022 American military correspondent David Axe claimed that the 11th Army Corps was destroyed during the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, having lost half its troops and 200 vehicles, and would "almost certainly require many months to rest, re-equip and induct draftees in order to regain even a fraction of its former strength.