25th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)

[1] The 25th Mechanized Corps was part of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command on 22 June 1941, the date of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

[4] During the first half of July, it was assigned to support the 21st Army to replace the mechanized corps destroyed in the border battles.

[6][3] On 13 July, the corps was ordered to concentrate the 219th Motorized Division in the Rudnia, Borkhov, and Pribor region, 15 to 25 kilometers to the west of Gomel.

[7] On 16 July, the corps was in the Krichev area, according to Western Front commander Semyon Timoshenko.

Its 10-tank detachment and a motorized company had reportedly destroyed 70-80 wheeled vehicles, 10 tanks, and killing up to 500 German soldiers in the Mahsevskaya Sloboda region from 17 July.

[11] The corps suffered heavy losses in its attacks and regrouped on 24 July.