Hero and choir

Nikolai Mitrokhin, 05/25/2015

From the magazine "Branch".

Alexey Mozgova was killed on May 23, against the backdrop of endless celebrations of the anniversary of the formation of the DPR-LNR. Some of those with whom he went to business last spring - Igor Girkin, Igor Bezler, Valery Bolotov, Nikolai Kozitsyn - now in Russia, and they are very bored there. They wiped the pens from the Donbass under the white. Back in any way. So with grief they award each other with home -made medals. Others remain in the region, and those who are still alive are bitterly disappointed. The reality of existence in the "People's Republics" was far from expectations.

Since September last year, the stage of real state and military construction began in the DPR and LPR. They were given to the register of puppets appointed Kremlin from among the heroes of the "Russian Spring" of the second or third plan. Those where heterogeneous gangs with loud names that controlled individual cities and areas began to be reduced by Taska, to something that should at least resemble the army and police in form. Moreover, Russia promised not to spare money, weapons, and consultative and organizational support for them.

Of course, this process was accompanied by a large -scale redistribution of financial flows coming from various types of shadow business, which were created by gang leaders. The three varnish pieces themselves became: 1) the distribution of humanitarian assistance coming from Russia to soon be in the markets; 2) the removal and sale of "squeezed" cars, metal and weapons in Russia; 3) illegal coal trade with Ukrainian enterprises.

Dissatisfied with the strengthening of the heads of territorial formations, the field commanders initially violently expressed their emotions and even gathered to deal with them in November-January. However, Moscow did not doze. With its help, at first the forced world was enclosed in Donetsk - and the chief rebel Igor Bezler from the Gorlovka controlled by him went to Russia.

A more difficult situation was in the LPR, where most field commanders were involved in a real conspiracy against Igor Plotnitsky, especially those who obeyed the Cossack chieftain Nikolai Kozitsyn, who was sitting in Rostov. She began to be raised immediately after the meeting of the New Year. On January 1, “during the arrest”, the commander of the Batman Batman, the commander of the “quick response group” Alexander Bednov, was exponentially burned out of fire, who, apparently, was the central figure of the conspiracy. His group, which controlled a number of objects in Lugansk, was immediately disarmed, and many of its members were arrested.

Then, the “People’s Police” of the LPR, along with the “private military company of Wagner”, was disarmed by a separate special purpose team of the Ministry of State Security of the LPR “Odessa” (January 10) and the Izmail Cossack Regiment in the city of Sverdlovsk (January 14). Colonel Evgeny Wagner (born in 1971, Russian German from Kyrgyzstan), by the way, is the deputy deputy deputy. The commander of the Russian group in the North Caucasus, previously commanded the 55th division of the internal troops.

The company was somewhat slowed down on January 15 combat operations, which led to the mobilization of many groups. But during the fighting, he continued to restore order. So, on January 23, unknown persons were killed by the city of Pervomaisk, who was actually working on the advanced “people's mayor” of the city of Pervomaisk, - Evgeny Ishchenko, who, in conversations with journalists, more than once expressed dissatisfaction with how humanitarian assistance was distributed in Lugansk. His murder was quickly written off on the Ukrainian military not caught. On February 28, in the Red Luch, the Ataman was arrested along with 19 members of his gang (he also obeyed Kozitsyn) Sergey Kosogor, who controlled and robbed the city since October last year.

Thus, there were two of the large figures that opposed Plotnitsky back in December. It was Alexei Mozgova (1975-2015) - a former dancer, a bandit, a handyman at Moscow construction sites, a warrant officer of the military commissariat, who became a reflector of peculiar socialist and anti -oligarchic ideas, and Pavel Dremov, a former Russian military, a bandit with a prison term, who considered himself and his supporters to obey Kozitsyn.

They were both leaders of large detachments who controlled cities in the north of the Luhansk region and moved together under the pressure of the Ukrainian army last July in the current area of actions - northwest of Lugansk, at the junction of the DPR and the LPR. In August-January, thanks to Russian support, they managed to convert their detachments into regular units, which actively took part in the offensive on the Debaltsevsky boiler in January-February. Their indispensability of their relatively disciplined detachments to combat the Ukrainian army in this region, apparently, for a long time restrained the long-ripened reprisal. Both Dremov and the Brain have been publicly spoke about her in recent months. On the other hand, they were not going to completely "lie down" under Plotnitsky. Despite the entry of their gangs in the official army of the LPR, they left the former structures untouched. Thus, the brain ghost brigade continued to exist in parallel with the 14th territorial battalion of the "People's Police" of the LPR created on its basis.

Trying to find a political roof in Russia, Mozgovoy and Dremov invented a naive "Russian project", which involved the organization at the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the "Russian People's Assembly". The last time he was announced just the other day. However, one of them will definitely not have to play the “Russian politician”.

The propagandists of the LPR are trying to write off the death of the brain and its satellites on the Ukrainian side, which allegedly violated the Minsk agreements. They recall that on March 7, in the same place, an unsuccessful attempt was made on the cerebral, the responsibility for which Ukrainian partisans took upon themselves. However, a day made a day later, the commander of the Ukrainian combat group “Shadows” that his fighters committed the murder, does not cause confidence, since the details reported by him are completely coincided with the information that had already been in the press.

The assumption that the elimination of the cerebral occurred during the internal struggle in the LPR looks much more believable. There are gang leaders who were killed by "their own", much more than those who died in the war with the Ukrainian state. There was no longer a place for "romantics from the high road", in the place of which laconic professional military inevitably come. There is still time to think about this so far surviving "romantics".