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Military expert, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems Vladimir Anokhin, in a conversation with RT, explained the reasons for the withdrawal of the Georgian National Legion from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“The operation in Donbass is a big failure for Ukraine. In addition, the command and political leadership are leading to an aggravation of the situation in this region, to the outbreak of hostilities.
Not only will the departure of foreigners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue, but desertion from the Ukrainian army will also increase, because everyone feels the futility of their existence in its ranks,” he said.
According to him, constant conflicts between soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces occur due to insufficient staffing of the army.
“When an army is starving, the soldiers either become looters or start stealing from each other, which causes a reaction accordingly. When there is no goal, when you don’t know what you are fighting for, you look for those on whom you can take your evil out.
People in the army are not blind; they understand perfectly well that the high command is profiting from them. Therefore, the question arises: why are we shedding blood?” - the expert concluded.
Bloody harvest: New data on large losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass (PHOTO)
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In December 2017, the Ukrainian media, including Internet resources, reported almost daily about the deaths of military personnel in the so-called ATO zone. As a result, the number of killed is 2 times higher than the data of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command: 36 instead of 19.
According to official data from the press center of the ATO headquarters, in December 2017, 19 servicemen were killed during the fighting. According to the Ukrainian news agency Obozrevatel, a report dated January 2, 2018, indicated that Ukraine lost 27 military personnel during this period, 16 of whom were killed as a result of sniper fire. The list of fallen military personnel is given below.
1. Vladimir Anatolyevich Maltsev (call sign Smoked)
Born on May 17, 1983 in the village of Likhachev, Nosovsky district, Chernihiv region. Junior sergeant, commander of a combat vehicle - squad leader of the 3rd platoon of the 2nd company of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.When the war broke out, mobilization began and the men in the village began to receive summonses, but Maltsev still did not receive a summons. He voluntarily went to the military registration and enlistment office and signed a contract.
Since February 2015, he found himself in a combat zone.
Near Debaltsevo, the fighter received a concussion. His relatives found him in a Kharkov hospital, where he stayed for 15 days and immediately returned to his family.
On December 1 at 16.20, during a shelling of a company strong point with 120-mm mines, he was seriously injured and was immediately taken to the hospital in the city of Popasnaya, where he died on December 2.
He is survived by his mother, two sisters, wife and two sons.
2. Dmitry Pavlovich Konokeenko (call sign Chernomor)
Born on August 11, 1991 in the city of Chernomorsk, Odessa region.
Junior sergeant, commander of the 1st anti-tank-machine gun section of the 1st platoon of the 1st company of the 11th motorized infantry battalion “Kievan Rus” of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade.
He volunteered for the front during mobilization in 2015. He fought in the Donbass punitive battalion. In August 2016, he signed a contract and continued his military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He took part in hostilities as part of the 11th motorized infantry battalion “Kievan Rus”.
3. Yuri Vladimirovich Rudyk
Soldier, fire support platoon driver of the 1st mountain assault company of the 109th separate mountain assault battalion of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Born on January 20, 1971 in the city of Slavuta, Khmelnitsky region. At the age of 4, he and his family moved to the village of Maikov, Goshchansky district, Rivne region.
In July 2017, he signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On November 18, he was wounded in the head by a sniper in the Lugansk region and was in a deep coma. On December 4, he died without regaining consciousness in the hospital named after. Mechnikov of the city of Dnepropetrovsk.
4. Andrey Ivanovich Kavuk (call sign Barkhan)
Senior soldier, sniper of the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Born on July 14, 1986 in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region.
On November 30 of this year, he received a severe wound in the area of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk”.
Andrei was taken unconscious to the hospital, Barkhan died without ever waking up from his coma.
He was buried on December 6 on the Walk of Fame of the Central Cemetery in Krivoy Rog. He is survived by his parents and sister.
5. Viktor Alekseevich Matyukhin (friend Kazakh)
Born on May 9, 1966 in the Karaganda region (Kazakhstan).
Kazakh’s grandfather was a member of the Don Cossacks, his grandmother was German, who was at one time forced to move to Kazakhstan. His parents were born there, and then Victor himself.
In the spring of 2015, he came to Ukraine to join the ranks of punitive forces.
First, Kazakh went to the “St. Mary” battalion, with which he took part in hostilities in the Lugansk region and received a shell shock there in the Starobelsk region.
In the summer of 2016, Kazakh found himself in the ranks of the 2nd platoon of the 1st separate assault company of the DUK PS, in which he held the position of rifleman.
He fought in Avdeevka and in the area of Donetsk airport.
On December 4, he was eliminated by a sniper in the DPR. Matyukhin was buried on December 8 at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lvov.
6. Ivan Emelyanovich Dubey (call sign Dividi)
Born on January 20, 1988 in the village of Vorona, Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Senior soldier, commander of the BMP-1, machine gunner of the 8th separate mountain assault battalion of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
He died from a sniper's bullet and was buried on December 10 in his native village. He is survived by his grandmother, parents and younger brother.
7. Andrey Alekseevich Pavlenko (call sign Pavlukha)
Born on November 13, 1984 in the urban village of Novotroitskoye, Kherson region. WITH
In 2007, he lived in the village of Auly, Dnepropetrovsk region.
From October 2014 to August 2015, he served in the 3rd platoon of the 3rd company of the Kyiv-1 battalion, and in the summer of 2016 he signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and arrived at his unit on June 6, 2016.
Ensign, chief sergeant of the 3rd parachute platoon of the 1st parachute landing company of the 1st battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade.
Died on December 7 as a result of a bullet wound received in the area of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk”.
8. Anatoly Ivanovich Tverdola
Born on March 14, 1970 in the village of Ladyzhinskie Khutora, Gaysinsky district, Vinnytsia region.He took part in the “Revolution of Dignity”, after the start of the war he began volunteering, and helped the Ukrainian army for 2 years.
In January 2017, he signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Senior sergeant, squad leader of the anti-tank platoon of the fire support company of the 9th separate motorized infantry battalion of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Died on December 8 near the village of Vodyanoye in the DPR from bullet wounds received during shelling of positions.
He was buried on December 10 in his native village. He is survived by his mother, wife and two sons.
9. Alexander Alexandrovich Proshkin (call sign Prokha)
Born on November 22, 1991 in Mariupol. Lived in the village of Kamenny, Sumy region.
Senior soldier, service number of the 3rd assault platoon of the 2nd assault company of the 24th separate assault battalion "Aidar" of the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Died on December 8 near the Svetlodar Bulge due to injuries received during the shelling of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions with 120-mm mines.
He was buried on December 11 in the village of Kamenoye. He is survived by his parents, sister, wife and little daughter.
10. Gennady Pavlovich Parasochka (call sign Kolobok)
Born on September 29, 1975 in the urban village of Severnoye, Donetsk region.
He graduated from school No. 11, after which he continued his studies at the vocational mining lyceum. He served his military service in Artemovsk.
He was called up for mobilization into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in February 2015, served in
81st Airborne Assault Brigade, and signed a contract in October 2017.
Soldier, service number of the grenade launcher squad of the 3rd assault platoon of the 2nd assault company of the 24th separate assault battalion "Aidar" of the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Died from wounds received during shelling of positions from BMP-1, AGS and small arms.
11. Fedor Fedorovich Karakonstantin
Born on March 29, 1995 in the village of Starye Troyany, Kilisky district, Odessa region.
After graduating from high school, he entered the Odessa Military Academy, which he graduated from
2016.
After that, he signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and arrived in his unit in March 2017.
Lieutenant, commander of the 3rd parachute platoon of the 4th parachute company of the 2nd parachute battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade.
Died on December 8 as a result of a bullet wound inflicted by a sniper in the area of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk”.
12. Viktor Igorevich Zelmanovich (call sign Zelya)
Born on October 3, 1992 in the urban village of Domanivka, Nikolaev region.
Volunteer of the 18th separate tactical group “Volyn” of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army.
On March 25, 2017, he first arrived at the unit’s position near Marinka.
On August 30, Zelya received shrapnel wounds, after which he underwent surgery to remove the fragments. After staying at home for a month, he returned to fight.
Died on December 10 in the DPR as a result of a landmine explosion during a combat mission. His brother and close comrade Alexander Zubchenko (Zapal’s friend) died along with him.
He was buried on December 13 in his native village. He is survived by his parents and sister.
13. Alexander Nikolaevich Zubchenko (call sign Zapal)
Born on June 4, 1990 in the urban-type village of Dikanka, Poltava region. Lived in the city of Mirgorod.
Since March 2017, volunteer of the 18th separate tactical group “Volyn” of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army.
Died on December 10 in the Donetsk region as a result of a landmine explosion during a combat mission.
14. Vladimir Yuryevich Timchenko
Born on February 15, 1962 in Kazakhstan. Subsequently he moved to Ukraine, to the village of Mokraya Rokitna, Novovodolazhsky district, Kharkov region.
He took part in the war in Afghanistan, serving as a driver.
Soldier, driver of the logistics platoon of the 109th separate mountain assault battalion of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On November 22, near the village of Zolotoye, Popasnyansky district of the LPR, an ATGM hit the cabin of a tanker truck where Timchenko was located. He received extremely serious injuries and was immediately taken to the Mechnikov Hospital.
He lived another two and a half weeks. On December 11, the fighter died.
Buried on December 13. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, two sisters, a brother and a grandson.
15. Pavel Vladimirovich Kornelyuk
Born on May 22, 1988 in Vinnitsa.
In September 2017 he went to war.
Lieutenant, reconnaissance - machine gunner of the 131st separate reconnaissance battalion.
Died on December 13 in the zone of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk” as a result of a bullet wound inflicted by a sniper. The wound was fatal, and Kornelyuk died in a military hospital in one of the front-line cities.
16. Timofey Iosipovich Genish
Born in March 1983 in Rakhiv.
Serviceman of the 128th separate mountain infantry brigade.
17. Andrey Alexandrovich Sipavka
Born in 1980 in Uzhgorod.
Serviceman of the 128th separate mountain infantry brigade.
Killed on December 17 in the area of the urban-type settlement of Zaytsevo, DPR, as a result of a direct hit by a 120-mm mine in a dugout.
18. Artem Andreevich Gultsio
Born on August 19, 1993 in the village of Druzhba, Yampolsky district, Sumy region. Since 2011 he lived in Zhitomir.After finishing 11 grades of school, he immediately signed a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and since 2011 has been in the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
Senior soldier, sapper of the 2nd battalion of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade.
Died on December 19 from a mine-explosive injury while performing a combat mission as a result of an explosion on an explosive device with a tripwire in the area of the urban-type settlement of Verkhnetoretskoye, Yasinovatsky district of the DPR.
19. Ivan Mikhailovich Sorokodzyuba
Born on 12.1976 in the village of Rokitnoye, Kyiv region.
Soldier, gunner of the 2nd squad of the 1st platoon of the 2nd company of the 13th separate motorized infantry battalion "Chernigov-1" of the 58th separate motorized infantry brigade.
Died on December 19 near the village of Novotoshkovskoye, Popasnyansky district of the LPR due to injuries received during a mortar attack on positions.
20. Andrey Yurievich Borisenko (call sign Borya)
Born on October 13, 1993 in the city of Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region.
The war began for him near Shakhtarsk, where he was first delivered in July 2014.
Sergeant, combat vehicle commander, squad leader of the 4th parachute airborne company of the 2nd battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade.
Died on December 20 in the zone of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk” as a result of a bullet wound inflicted by a sniper.
21. Alexey Vladimirovich Orikhivsky (call sign Oreh)
Born in June 1982 in the village of Zheleznodorozhnoe, Poltava district, Poltava region. Two years later, the boy’s family moved to the village of Kamenka, Trostyanets district, Sumy region.
In August 2014, Orikhivsky voluntarily went to the military registration and enlistment office and enlisted in the Ukrainian army.
He died on the night of December 20-21 in the zone of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk” as a result of a fatal shrapnel wound received during the shelling of positions with 120-mm mines.
22. Petr Tadeevich Mikhailyuk
Born on July 21, 1974 in the village of Gologory, Zolochevsky district, Lviv region, in a large family.
The man was drafted into the third wave of mobilization, in the summer of 2014.
Ensign, chief sergeant of the 2nd howitzer self-propelled artillery battery of the howitzer artillery division of the brigade artillery group of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade.
Death found him on December 22, near the village of Stary Aidar, Stanichno-Lugansk district, LPR. He was mortally wounded during an artillery shelling of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions.
He was buried on December 25 in his native village.
He is survived by his mother, three brothers, a sister and a daughter.
23. Oleg Sergeevich Shevchenko
Born on September 22, 1988 in the city of Lozovaya, Kharkov region.
Soldier, driver of the 3rd squad of the 1st platoon of the 3rd motorized infantry company of the 25th separate motorized infantry battalion "Kievan Rus" of the 54th separate mechanized brigade.
Died on December 23 near the village of Luganskoye in the DPR as a result of a fatal bullet wound inflicted by a sniper.
24. Yuri Anatolyevich Zolotarev
Born on February 11, 1983 in Kyiv, in a military family.
During 2014–2015, acting as deputy company commander for educational work, he passed through the hottest places of military clashes in the Donbass.
Senior lieutenant, deputy commander for work with personnel of the 1st company of the 1st battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade.
On December 21, mortar shelling of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions began in the zone of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk”. The senior lieutenant was escorting the soldiers to safety when a mine fell nearby. He received an extremely severe shrapnel wound to the head and was immediately evacuated to the Mechnikov Hospital.
He was buried on December 26 in the Alley of Heroes of the Krasnopolsky cemetery in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. He is survived by his parents, two brothers, wife and son.
25. Andrey Vitalievich Tovkach
Born on April 3, 1978 in the north of Russia. At a young age, he and his family moved to Ukraine, to the urban village of Shirokoe, Dnepropetrovsk region.Senior soldier, grenade launcher of the parachute battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade.
Died on December 26 in the zone of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk” as a result of a bullet wound inflicted by a sniper.
He is survived by his father, brother, sister, common-law wife and two daughters.
26. Ivan
Serviceman of the 1st air assault battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade.
Died on December 29 in the zone of responsibility of the separate tactical group “Donetsk” from a fatal bullet wound inflicted by a sniper.
27. Sergey Konovalov
However, official data from security forces and authoritative news agencies of Ukraine do not coincide with real losses. Thus, thanks to information posted publicly on social networks and from the words of Ukrainian volunteers, it became known about 10 more dead Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen.
Here are the updated data:
On December 24, 2017, the Ukrainian media disseminated information about the death of SBU special forces colonel Sergei Shirkov;
All 10 people, according to colleagues, died as a result of enemy fire. At the same time, an open question remains: why did the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again not voice information about the death of these fighters?
And everything is very simple. The fact is that most of the dead from this list served in the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose purpose was to cross the line of combat contact, penetrate into the territory of the Republics, and conduct search and reconnaissance operations, commit sabotage and terrorist acts, and simply put, they were part of the DRG .
But thanks to the high professionalism of the military personnel of the People's Republics, the enemy's insidious plans were not destined to come true, and the enemy suffered losses. Naturally, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not intend to cover information about the death of participants in the DRG. After all, then the world community will understand Kyiv’s real plans to destroy the population of Donbass.
08/04/2014 15:32 Moscow time. Message from militiaman Prokhorov.
“By the way, about virtual victories.
The Ukrainians are now squealing that they have taken Yasinovataya. I declare responsibly - lies, lies and provocation.
Regarding the execution of the Ukrainian by the military 18 civilians in Dokuchaevsk. There are punishers from the Shakhtarsk mercenary battalion (100% criminality). They carried out these executions in response to the murder of two of their “colleagues” by partisans.
08/04/2014. Message from a Donetsk militia.
“There are up to a hundred Ukrainian “boxes” in Kurakhovo, about 50 in the Debaltsevo area (yesterday the Ukrops shot the Cossack chieftain, near the house). Near Krasnoarmeysk and Dobropolye I even get lost... near Dokuchaevsk there are about 100 armored personnel carriers. Local men said - we’ll burn it and sell it for scrap metal... we really need the money))).”
08/04/2014. Commentary by militiaman Alexander Zhuchkovsky about prisoners of war.
“The video of the field interrogation of the Ukrainian military in Shakhtersk and Strelkov’s order not to take prisoners from the 25th brigade provoked some exchange of views on the treatment of prisoners of war. Both among observers and among militias, calls to “remain human” coexist with the philosophy of “an eye for an eye,” and this philosophy will inevitably and increasingly win in the minds of people increasingly faced with the unmotivated cruelty of the Ukrainian side.
The issue is complex, and its complexity lies, on the one hand, in the difference in the treatment of prisoners and methods of conducting military operations, on the other hand, in the difference in the parties’ perception of each other as an enemy.
I can personally testify that the attitude of the militia towards Ukrainian prisoners of war was and remains humane. And the point is not in the Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, but, if you like, in the natural kindness of the Russian person, to whom unmotivated cruelty and the desire to “finish off the downtrodden” are in principle unusual. Of course, there are cases of “breakdown” by militias (who have lost close comrades or relatives) on prisoners, but this is precisely what a “breakdown” is, that is, it is not considered as the norm, but as a painful and exceptional phenomenon, and, as a rule, is stopped by themselves or militias. If the prisoner is not a valuable source of information and there is no need to work with him, interest in him is lost, and he is sent “to the basement” (a collective expression migrated from the SBU buildings, meaning detention).
Dmitry Olshansky recently wrote (about the plot in Shakhtersk) that he felt sorry for the captured Ukrainian, and gave a description close to my point of view: “Life works like this: you need to defeat the enemy, but get pleasure from the fact that he has already been defeated - this is not , does not work. We won - and to hell with you, you bastard, live and thank God.”
We know how Ukrainians treat prisoners. One of the blatant cases of their cruelty forced Strelkov to give the order not to take prisoners of the 25th brigade. If we reason from the opposite, then the lack of “natural kindness of the Russian people” in Ukrainians is clear evidence that they are not Russians, but Ukrainians - representatives of a different people, in which there will soon be nothing Russian, that is, nothing human, left.
Actually, this is the other side of the problem that I mentioned - Russians and Ukrainians still perceive each other as adversaries in different ways. Ukrainians have long demonstrated that they perceive the Russians as an absolute enemy who can and should be mercilessly exterminated. That is, we are talking about nothing more than ethnic cleansing; a war of extermination has been declared on the Russians.
Unfortunately, many Russians, even in the militia, have not yet fully realized this. Someone blames the “West”, corrupt politicians, Jewish oligarchs, Nazi fanatics, etc. for everything, continuing, in general, to be convinced that Ukrainians (even those who shoot at them) are lost, deceived, zombified by television and state propaganda, but still Russians or Ukrainian brothers who only need to “open their eyes” and then they will understand everything, be afraid of their crimes, repent, etc. (for this reason, the interpretation of the war in Ukraine as civil and “fratricidal” is popular, although I insist on its interethnic nature; “we will never be brothers” - we were not the first to say this, but it will be very difficult to convince us otherwise). Hence the humane attitude towards prisoners of war, who outwardly are almost no different from us and speak Russian, like that prisoner in Shakhtersk, who was just right to start speaking lines from the penitential canon - “I cry and weep when I think of death.” Such a “repentant robber,” of course, cannot but be pitied and forgiven by a Russian person with a “Christian soul.” “To hell with you, you bastard, live and thank God.”
Personally, I have always been and remain opposed to any cruelty or humiliation towards captured Ukrainians. At the same time, being a direct participant in this war, I am increasingly losing compassion and pity for the prisoners - they themselves did everything and even more to kill these feelings in me and the last remnants of a “brotherly” attitude towards them. If these are zombies, then they cannot be captured, they must be exterminated, because they are emotionless robots. If these are “deceived” people, then they have already had more than enough time and opportunity to become convinced that they are being deceived.
The other day, another convoy with wounded and refugees left Donetsk for Izvarino. One of the cars was driven by a Ukrainian. It seemed like a “normal Russian man” was heroically driving a car with wounded through the shelled territory (the car with this driver, of course, was never shelled). The spy was identified by references that the militia had. He was allowed to drive the car to his destination, and then they “took him by the gills.” So, for me, in this (essentially common for wartime) story, what became most interesting was how this man felt among the militia. After all, he was not behind the “front line” where they are being “zombified.” He was among us, clearly saw the results of shelling of residential areas, communicated with the population, the wounded, the militia, etc. In order to continue working for the Ukrainians under these conditions, you need to be Ukrainian.
Or, for example, they exposed an enemy agent in Slavyansk. He adjusted the artillery that was hitting the city. He looked like a “normal Russian guy,” but turned out to be Ukrainian. Who also saw perfectly well that he was surrounded not by “Putin’s terrorists,” but by ordinary Russian people defending their city and fleeing the barbaric shelling of the artillery they were directing.
So, as they say in Russia, tell your grandmother about the “brotherly people”.
Sooner or later, with or without the help of the Russian Federation, Russian lands will be cleared of Ukrainian separatists, and how many Ukrainians will die in the process of this cleansing and how many will be captured depends on the Ukrainians themselves.”
08/04/2014. Operational information from the Cauldron.
Today, the remnants of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade, numbering 438 people, entered the territory of the Russian Federation.
It has not yet been possible to agree on the complete surrender of all encircled troops (negotiations are ongoing), so the cauldron begins to fall apart. The 72nd brigade practically ceased to exist due to the complete exhaustion of ammunition and food rations. They held out as long as they had resources, and then began to enter the territory of the Russian Federation, first in separate groups, and then with the surviving remnants of the once full-blooded brigade.
All the equipment is abandoned in positions that continue to be occupied by the junta troops who have not yet surrendered. The militia drove up in tanks to 400 meters from the junta’s positions, but they did not return fire - there was simply nothing. In the 72nd brigade, when they surrendered, some of the soldiers had no cartridges at all, some had 1-2 magazines per machine gun.
There is also information that among those who did not surrender there are Polish mercenaries, which, in fact, explains the tenacity of the resistance (a serious international scandal is possible).
Those remaining in this part of the cauldron were given a condition - to surrender and go to Russia, but not to destroy the equipment, otherwise the Grads would start working again. There are now intense disputes there, with military commanders arguing that the possibilities of resistance have been exhausted and that they must surrender so as not to kill people in vain. Right-wingers, mercenaries and the politically stubborn demand to continue resistance at any cost. Therefore, there will probably not be a complete surrender - most of the army men will apparently surrender, the rest will be leveled, especially since they have nothing special to answer with. It can be assumed that this group will cease to exist within 2-3 days, after which the cauldron will narrow by a factor of 2, and the militia will take over the remnants of the 24th and 79th brigades.
To make it better clear, the remnants of the 72nd brigade surrendered, which were pushed back from Izvarino and Sverdlovsk to the border with the Russian Federation. At the same time, the cauldron remains in the gap between Marinovka and Biryukovo, where the remnants of the 79th separate airmobile brigade and the 24th separate mechanized brigade, plus various reinforcement units and punitive formations, hold the defense.
In general, the Southern Cauldron has now truly entered the final stage of its existence; the agony of parts deprived of supplies has begun.
Today information has emerged that another group of Ukrainian military personnel intends to cross into Russia following almost 440 soldiers and officers of the Ukrainian armed forces who crossed into the territory of the neighboring country on the night of August 4. The exact details of the military personnel who intend to move to the Russian Federation are still unknown, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the head of the press service of the FSB border department for the Rostov region. This is just about those who will switch in the near future. The problems there are the same as those of the 72nd OMBR.
08/04/2014 11:15 Moscow time. Message from the volunteer militia unit "D.O.L.G."
“On the night of August 3-4 in Shakhtersk, the Ukrainian army used phosphorus bombs against the militia. The sanatorium building burned down. According to information from DOLG officers who are directly at the scene of the incident, there are no casualties. No harm done.
In Zaporozhye, a DPR sabotage group completely liquidated one of the units of the Dnepr battalion, reporting directly to Yarosh. All combat commanders have been eliminated (Information from commander D.O.L.G.)"
08/04/2014 0:35 Message from the Donetsk militia.
“Postmodern... tonight I saw how, in a desire to catch up, a militiaman chased the retreating dill on a bicycle... while shooting from a machine gun, cursing loudly, and in between this he sang a song about VARYAG!.. if I had a hat, I would take it off in front of him... scene of action Marinka.
08/03/2014 15:29 Commentary by Fedor Berezin, deputy of I. I. Strelkov.
"And yet.
Judging by the reaction to the last post (about the loss of 125 enemy armored vehicles near Shakhtarsk), no one believes anything.
No wonder. I wouldn't believe it myself. In the books, even then, I always tried to make fifty-fifty in terms of losses. However, now the case is different. So just for information.
On average - on normal days - the Kiev junta loses from 30 to 40 armored vehicles per day. The main area of losses is Shakhtersk, Snezhnoye. Now Marinka and one more direction of Donetsk have been added.
On average, after a day or two, the junto army suffers very serious losses. That is, up to a hundred armored vehicles, and from seven hundred to a thousand killed. And these are not fairy tales.
I don’t know how much armor the Huntoids have left. No time to do analytics. I assume, and there is some data confirming the assumptions, that old Warsaw Pact tank stocks are already being used. There is evidence about the Polish ones.
Mercenaries appear. Moreover, from very remote parts of the world. We can’t disclose everything just yet.
Well, and, as always, an appeal to the mothers of the western regions.
Take your children from Donbass. After all, every single one of them will burn in the “boxes” or nearby.”
08/03/2014. Interview with refugees from Shakhtersk.
Refugees from Shakhtersk told how they escaped from the fire. Mostly women and children fled from shelling by the Ukrainian army.
The city of Shakhtersk is located on the highway connecting Donetsk with the LPR. In order to encircle Donetsk, Makeevka and Gorlovka, which are controlled by the DPR militias, and to cut off the militia positions in the east of the region from Donetsk, armored vehicles and infantry of the Ukrainian National Guard entered Shakhtersk on July 27. People began to leave the city in groups and move to Donetsk, where they were housed in vacant dormitories.
The refugees told a LifeNews correspondent what they had to endure during several days of continuous fighting. According to one of the men, he spent two days in the cellar, which he dug with his own hands in order to escape.
“I tried to get out, but there was constant shooting,” he says. – And so for two days... There were 4 or 5 tanks. I don’t know whether people were hurt or not, but houses were burned. It was scary.
The woman said that artillery shelling began on July 27. At first they shot around the area, and then shells began to hit residential buildings, and she decided to be one of the first to escape. Many holed up in basements, but later they also decided that life was more valuable and abandoned their homes.
“Glass was flying, and we ran as best we could.” And the militia guys ran and shouted to us: “Get into cover! The snipers are working! - says the interlocutor. “A teacher who worked at our school had her parents burnt alive in the village. Poor woman, she herself could not leave, and she also could not take them.
One of the residents of Shakhtersk appealed to the authorities with a request to open humanitarian corridors for refugees. Many of those who remain where the fighting is going on are elderly people, there are a lot of mothers with children, and there are disabled children.
– On what basis and why is all this happening? Now there are a lot of people living here in dormitories. Please open humanitarian corridors for others, let people leave! - the woman asks.
An hour before the first shots were fired on July 27, local residents saw tanks, several dozen trucks with National Guardsmen, about 40 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles moving towards Shakhtersk. On August 1, the DPR militia continued to fight in the Shakhtersk area with the 25th airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Dnepr-1 battalion.
08/03/2014 23:20 Moscow time. Message from correspondent. A. Krasnoshchekova.
“Several hostels in Donetsk are chock-full of refugees from Gorlovka and Shakhtersk. Women, pensioners, children, disabled people. Mostly recent arrivals. Some with only one bag, in robes and slippers. Everyone says that the militia brought them here.
Very scared adults and children. They admit that they are hiding after the door slams. There is a railway track nearby, the noise from it literally causes hysterics for some.
Prayer for Strelkov. I met the religious procession in the center of Donetsk a few days ago (see video).”
08/04/2014. Report from the field over the past few hours.
The enemy is trying to break through to Donetsk, directing its attacks towards Krasnohorivka and Marinka.
Water appeared in Petrovka this morning, but problems with electricity and mobile communications persist.
00:25 (MSK) An AN-30 was spotted over Snezhny, the reconnaissance aircraft was circling. A heavy transport aircraft S-17 left Kharkov towards Kramatorsk, the cargo is not yet known. In Donetsk, the militia continues to hunt for drones; an explosion occurred in the Administrative Village area.
The second half of the day passed relatively calmly. So far, according to unconfirmed reports, we have managed to take control of Krasnogorovka and Marinka. There is still no electricity and water shortages in Lugansk; there seem to have been no air raids or artillery strikes in the evening, or at least no such information has been received.
00:45 (MSK) The junta has resumed shelling of Donetsk from MSTA-s, powerful explosions are heard on the southern side beyond Shiroke.
00:55 (MSK) A battle has broken out in the area of the checkpoint on Shirokoe, and the explosions continue.
08/04/14. Message from eyewitnesses.
“In Slavyansk, in the courtyard of the Agricultural Technical School (Svobody Street), a large number of armored vehicles are stationed, consisting of 6 GRADs, armored personnel carriers, and trucks. The personnel are housed in the technical school dormitory. According to evidence, the column is in combat readiness, ready to move out. The same source reports that yesterday shooting was heard on the outskirts of Slavyansk.”
08/04/2014 0:45 Message from the Novorossiya Agency
“In Dokuchaevsk, occupied by Ukraine, people in black uniforms and red armbands shot 18 residents. Local residents reported this to the Social Communications Committee (SCC) of the DPR.
According to them, since yesterday evening, armed people in black uniforms, balaclavas, and red armbands have been shooting civilians. 18 people are already known to have been killed; the number of missing people is unknown.
In addition, they reported that in Dokuchaevsk (at State Farm) they installed 2 Grad installations and one installation in a cemetery. And between Starobeshevo and Dokuchaevsk, about 50 units of equipment and 4 Grad installations passed.
“Yesterday at about 20:15 from Debaltsevo, the Rostov-Lugansk bypass highway, phosphorus bombs were fired towards Yenakievo,” eyewitnesses report.”
“Igor Ivanovich Strelkov kindly agreed to record the seventh video answer to questions from the editors of “Report from the Novorossiya Militia.” During the conversation several issues were raised:
1) Many predict an escalation of the conflict in Donbass, do you think this will happen? Can you give a brief analysis of the current combat situation?
“The war will continue sooner or later, the only question is when? The Ukrainian government is waiting for the process of the half-life of the Russian Federation to reach its logical conclusion. Now there are artillery clashes along the entire front line with dozens of casualties on each side.”
2) Dear Igor Ivanovich, I would like to know your assessment of the latest events in Crimea. What happened there? Isn't the incident in Crimea a step towards the start of a full-scale war?
“The breakthrough of Ukrainian saboteurs into Russian territory and the death of our soldiers is already a reason for war. However, apart from Vladimir Vladimirovich’s loud statements, no action followed. Evil tongues say that this is connected with the call from the government. US Secretary John Kerry."
3) How do you evaluate the effectiveness of “OND” (K25), is there systematic and effective work in the organization, is everything not sliding into a banal “talking shop”
“The stagnation is obvious, but this is not due to the fact that I do nothing and sit idle, but because we did everything that could be done on a volunteer basis. The majority of the population who are vitally interested in us do not understand the danger of the situation that has currently developed, so we have not received any support. I believe that there is no need to say “everything is lost,” but since the crisis is inevitable, but when people realize that the ship is sinking, then we will receive the resources we need. It is clear that one way or another Putin will have to leave sooner or later..."
6) Dear Igor Ivanovich, how can you assess the personnel changes that have occurred in the upper echelons of power? What do you think the appointment of Vaino as head of the Presidential Administration means?
“Vaino is a technical worker who has no opinion. The president removes from power people who have known him for a long time, while not touching the liberal bloc (Gref, Nabibullina, Siluanov Shuvalov). We must understand that the security officials who were fired, no matter how thieving and stupid they were, will stand for Putin to the end because they directly depend on it, while the liberal bloc will sell it at the first opportunity because they are tied to “Western partners”.
P.S. Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, in addition, generously agreed to answer other questions of interest to the public. If you have anything to say to Strelkov, any questions, advice or suggestions, write in the comments under the video. Perhaps your question will be in the next video answer. Don’t miss this unique chance to ask Strelkov any questions you are interested in!”
Modern man lives in a world in which some events are constantly happening. Some people are not interested in any news at all, some do it partially, and still others visit news sites every day. Many people are concerned about the situation that is happening in Ukraine, namely in Novorossiya.
They want to receive up-to-date daily updates on the combat situation from militias, eyewitnesses and other participants. Namely, they are looking for reports from the New Russia militia. And at the moment you can easily find many sites on this topic, however, one of the most popular is the Russian Spring portal.
Russian Spring - official website
Why? Because this is an online platform that tells its users about what is happening on the territory of Ukraine. Professional journalists and correspondents are sent to the scene of incidents, who try to collect verified and reliable information and, if possible, support it with video and photographic material.
According to the developers, the resource is visited by a large number of people every day. This audience is very demanding when it comes to news: they want to be sure that they are reading true stories and information, and they also want to receive it as quickly as possible. And the employees manage to meet the needs of the people, because reports from the militia are published quite often.
How to find them? When entering the official website of the Russian Spring, the user is introduced to the main page, which contains a lot of information. A newcomer may not immediately understand how to look for news on Novorossiya, because this electronic publication also publishes articles in other areas: economics, politics, the situation in Syria, relations between Russia and the United States, etc. To find an exciting topic, you need to go to the very end main page. This is where popular portal tags are located, which make it possible to quickly find articles on topics of interest.
News by section However, not all tags are listed on the page. To see the entire list, just click on the “More” button located to the right of the tags. A new window will open, where all the tags will be listed. Those in capital letters are the most popular. When studying them, you can understand that most often users are looking for news related to ISIS, Vladimir Putin, the USA, refugees, finance, LPR, crime, North Korea, religion, Donbass, etc. Reports from the militia are also on this list.
Tags To read the latest news about Novorossiya and reports from there, you need to click on the corresponding tag. When you go to the page, a list of news will appear, and next to each of them the date of publication will be indicated for greater convenience.
If you want to receive reports from the militia in even greater quantities, you can use the search bar, which is located on each page. There you can enter the required query, after which the Yandex search engine will display a list of articles on the Russian Spring website on the topic you are looking for. This is convenient for those people who do not want to waste time on a mechanical search, but simply want to enter a phrase so that the news appears as quickly as possible.
Site search Reports from the militia can be commented on if users have such a desire. To do this, they will need to register on the portal via email or social networks. When registering through Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, Facebook, etc., you will simply need to give permission to the site to use your profile. There is no need to come up with logins or passwords because all this and other data is exported from the social network you are using.
If you don’t want to use your account to read news about Novorossiya, you can make a standard registration through a special form. It is available at this link: https://social.rusvesna.su/registration. On the page you will need to enter your data, then wait for an email and confirm your registration. Upon completion, all functions of the portal will open to the user.
Russian Spring - registration The site also has groups on social networks, as well as a channel on YouTube video hosting. Videos appear on the channel very often, so subscribers can constantly receive new interesting material. And if the portal itself was formed in the summer of 2015, then the channel was created only in 2017. Nevertheless, there is active activity on it, the number of subscribers is increasing, and there are constant discussions under the videos.
Thus, Russian Spring is an easy-to-use information resource that covers events in Novorossiya, Donbass, Syria, Russia, and contains various expert opinions. Many people use it, however, parents of minor children should be careful - they need to control what they read and watch, since materials marked “18+” periodically appear on the portal.
Age restrictions The military considers will to be the main trait of a commander, followed by prudence, moderation and self-control. When the military-political conflict in Donbass (Ukraine) was just beginning to flare up in 2014, Igor Strelkov showed all these qualities. Strelkov’s role is complex and ambiguous, but his contribution to the formation of Donbass as a separate republic is extremely great.
Childhood and youth
Girkin Igor Vsevolodovich (better known as Strelkov Igor Ivanovich) was born in Moscow on December 17, 1970. Considering the military career of Igor Vsevolodovich, the facts of his biography are not advertised. According to unofficial information, Igor Vsevolodovich’s father is also a military man by profession. From early childhood, Girkin was interested in history. The boy studied diligently, read with pleasure, for which he received the offensive nickname “nerd” among his peers.
Having received a basic education at Moscow school No. 249, the young man at the age of 18 became a student at the State Institute of History and Archives in Moscow. A year later, the young man developed a hobby that was rare for that time - military-historical reconstruction.
Military service
Having received a diploma of higher education, Igor did not work even a day in his specialty - the young man chose to follow in his father’s footsteps. Igor's military career began in 1992 as a Cossack army shooter and mortar gunner. At the same time, Girkin visited the war for the first time: first in Transnistria, then in Bosnia. Upon his return, the young man published a “Bosnian Diary” with entries about the events of that period and personal experiences.
The young man served in the air defense forces as a gunner in a security company. Having started his service as a private, by June 1994 Girkin received the rank of junior sergeant. After serving his military service, the young man remained in the army, but under a contract as a platoon deputy and commander of the Arcadia self-propelled artillery unit. After only 5 months, Igor received the rank of guard sergeant.
In 1995, Igor Girkin gained serious experience of real combat operations by going to the Chechen Republic. Returning from the war, in 1996, Igor joined the Federal Security Service as an investigator (at the same time he received the rank of lieutenant). Simultaneously with his work, Igor took courses at the FSB, after which he received a promotion, taking the position of deputy head of the department (with the rank of senior lieutenant).
Igor Strelkov in the army From 1999 to 2005, Girkin visited the Chechen and Dagestan republics in order to fight the gangster underground and terrorism. By December 2005, Igor Vsevolodovich received the rank of colonel. For his contribution to the fight against terrorism, Girkin was awarded the Order of Courage and a medal.
In 2005, Igor Vsevolodovich was transferred to Moscow, where he worked in the Federal Security Service until 2013. In 2013, Igor Vsevolodovich was dismissed due to length of service. Girkin's total length of service in military service was 18.5 years.
Igor Strelkov in Chechnya Returning to Moscow, Igor Vsevolodovich remembered his youthful hobby and became the leader of the Combined Machine Gun Team, created on the basis of the military-historical club “Moscow Dragoon Regiment”. The main goal of the organization was the reconstruction of historical battles, in which Igor gladly took part, most often in the lower military ranks.
Donbass period
In February 2014 (a month before the referendum on the status of the peninsula), Igor Vsevolodovich was appointed to the position of freelance adviser to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea. At the same time, Igor Vsevolodovich headed a separate volunteer special forces battalion, ensuring the establishment of Russian power on the peninsula after the referendum.
The intensification of hostilities in the Donbass forced Girkin to take the post of commander of the DPR militia on April 12, 2014. On April 12, Girkin (under the pseudonym Strelkov) with a team of armed people and activists occupied the administration building of the city of Slavyansk (Donetsk region), announcing the annexation of the city to the Donetsk People's Republic. For three months there were battles for the city, and on July 5, Strelkov, at the head of his group, was forced to leave the city, handing it over to the Ukrainian authorities.
After the referendum on May 11, 2014, according to the results of which the Donetsk People's Republic was proclaimed, Igor Ivanovich Strelkov was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the DPR. But two months later, on May 15, 2014, Strelkov left the territory of the DPR, leaving for the Russian Federation.
In his speech, Igor Ivanovich voiced the reason for his departure as a political decision on the part of the authorities. According to the ex-leader of the militia, the Russian government betrayed the people of Donbass. At the same time, the former Minister of Defense of the DPR emphasized that he continues to closely monitor the fate of the Republic, especially war crimes by Ukraine.
The pseudonym Strelkov was chosen by Girkin not out of fear of political persecution and a desire to remain incognito, but based on the fact that this surname is easier to remember and reflects the owner’s connection with military affairs. Although entire fortunes are often made in war, Igor Ivanovich Strelkov always emphasizes that he does not even have a personal car, and donates most of his finances to charity and an old hobby - military-historical reconstructions.
Social movement "Novorossiya"
After leaving the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in May 2014, Strelkov took up organizational activities in the Novorossiya social movement. The official website of the movement reflects information about its activities: the leader’s analytical notes on the military-political situation in the world, fundraising and organizing events to provide assistance to victims on the territory of the DPR, the population and the army of the republic. Help is provided in the form of food, clothing, and medicine.
Igor Strelkov organized the Novorossiya movement The main and only goal of the movement and Strelkov as a leader is to help the people of Donbass. Novorossiya has nothing to do with politics. Igor Strelkov expressed his opinion in an interview posted on the official website of Novorossiya that in the armed conflict in the Donbass, the fate of not Kyiv and Donetsk, but Russia, is being decided.
Personal life
Almost nothing is known about the personal life of the ex-minister of the Donetsk People's Republic. Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin is married to Miroslava Reginskaya. Miroslava helps her husband in all his endeavors, has an active political position and is a member of the Novorossiya social movement, headed by Girkin. The married couple has a daughter, Ulyana Igorevna Girkina. The baby was born in August 2016.
The family devotes all their free time to socio-political problems and work in Novorossiya, and Igor and Miroslava spent a short vacation on the Crimean peninsula.
Igor Strelkov now
As Igor Ivanovich Strelkov emphasizes, now the main goal of his activities is the organization of humanitarian assistance to the people of Donbass. In addition, Girkin, within the framework of the Novorossiya OA project, also deals with socio-political problems in Russia.
Thus, on October 28, 2017, members of the public movement took part in the congress of national patriotic forces of Russia, where they discussed the creation of a Team of People's Leaders. The purpose of creating the Team is the planned reform of the economic and social policies of the Russian Federation by combating corruption, nationalizing strategically important resources and electing local Councils.
According to Strelkov, the Novorossiya OD is a third force along with the official government and the opposition. As for his comrades in the fight for the Donetsk People's Republic, here too Igor Ivanovich is opposed to other parties to the conflict.
Thus, in October 2017, a skirmish occurred on the Internet between Strelkov and the former Prime Minister of the DPR, now the head of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, Alexander Borodai. Alexander Yuryevich in an interview called the appointment of Strelkov to the post of Minister of Defense of the DPR in 2014 a personnel “mistake.”
In addition to political issues, the OD “Novorrossiya” is also involved in solving social problems in the Donbass. Strelkov and his team publish reports on monthly humanitarian assistance to the people of the DPR on the official website of the movement, as well as on the page in
