Headquarters and moles

Colonel Vladimir Cheban, chief of staff of the Russian delegation in a joint center for control and coordination of ceasefire issues (SCCC) - mission, in which officers of Ukraine and Russia work, is convicted of assistance to the militants of the DPR. This was reported on the SBU website.

In particular, Cheban handed over to the deputy chief of staff of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR, which has a call sign of Yakub, monthly graphs and flights of drones of the OSCE special monitoring mission. Thus, the militants got the opportunity to hide their firing positions from international observers, as well as the location of heavy weapons and equipment.

As follows from Cheban’s published negotiations with another militant - the officer’s duty officer, the headquarters of the 1st Corps of the DPR - the Russian colonel in his reports silent the facts of shelling by terrorists of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Finally, Cheban's involvement in an attempt to fabricate evidence for accusing the Ukrainian side of using the Grad RSO was established. The colonel discussed this issue with the “officer” of the headquarters of the 5th separate motorized rifle brigade of the same 1st Army Corps.

The SBU in accordance with Article 26 of the Law of Ukraine "On the legal status of foreigners and stateless persons" announced to Cheban that he was deporting it and for five years prohibit entering the country. Under the escort of the security forces, the colonel was taken to the border in the Kharkov region and expelled outside of Ukraine.

Cheban has already become the second chief of staff of the Russian delegation in the SCCC, convicted of helping militants. On February 2, at the border point of the Goptovka checkpoint in the Kharkov region, while trying to enter the country, his predecessor Colonel Igor Kirsanov was detained , who was also the deputy head of the Russian delegation.

Together with Kirsanov, Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Anisimov and Mayorov Damir Shangareev and Alexander Andryushkin were detained. They seized methodological materials and lecture courses on tank battle, use explosives, work with Smerch, Uragan, Grad, description of ground reconnaissance methods with encrypted marks and other publications in military affairs.

In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Elizar Popov, Mayorov Sergey Trofimenko and Yuri Frolov seized the originals of excerpts from the order of the “Minister of Defense of the DPR” on the awarding of certain militants - how could be concluded from the message, Russians with the “military -internationalist” medals for the “military feat” provided by the Donetsk People’s Republic in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle in the struggle reflection of aggression of the state Ukraine. "

Also, Russians found various military chevrons, flags of the DPR and LPR and souvenir products with the propaganda of these "republics" and "Novorossiya".

Earlier, on January 27, the officers of the Russian delegation of the SSCK Major Alexander Kornik and Captain Sergei Kutsenko, while trying to enter Ukraine, were seized with the stamp "for official use". The manuals concerned explosive and cleansing, installation of machine guns on machines, and the construction of fortifications and defense structures.

The SBU opened the case under Articles 258-3 (assistance to a terrorist organization) and 333 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the procedure for international programs to be exported control). Whether any of the Russian officers was detained, it was not specified.

SCCC was formed to control the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Its main tasks are to monitor the fulfillment of the requirements for a complete ceasefire and the removal of guns with a caliber of 100 millimeters or more from the contact line, as well as monitoring the buffer zone.