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Fucking in battle
In the Luhansk region, the Russian contractor Viktor Ageev was captured. This was reported by the BBC, citing sources in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the command of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In 2015-2016, Ageev served in the military unit 65246, stationed in the Novocherkassk of the Rostov region. According to the mother of Ageev Svetlana, on March 18 this year, her son signed a contract. Ageev’s new duty station was Bataysk, Rostov Region, where the 22nd separate guards special purpose of the GRU of the General Staff of Russia was stationed.
According to the BBC, in correspondence with friends Ageev confirmed that he was in Ukraine. In social networks, he published several of his photographs with the symbols of the GRU, as well as a photo with weapons in the form without identification marks.
On June 24, in the area of the village of Zhelobok, the Lugansk region, a collision of fighters of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the LPR forces reconnaissance arranged. The group commander and sniper were killed, four militants were captured. The press center of the ATO reported on a clash.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian military reported that the murdered commander of the reconnaissance group is a personnel Russian officer, captain Alexander Shcherbak. He also acted as an instructor in the intelligence of the LPR forces. It was noted that during the detention they seized weapons and equipment of a new sample developed for Russian sabotage groups.
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Ageev resigned to the reserve in the summer of 2016 after military service. Information about the receipt of Ageev for military service under the contract in the military department was called "the fiction of Ukrainian propagandists."
The representative of the "People's Police" of the LPR Andrei Marochko said that Ageev was accepted for the voluntary service of the "military commissariat" of the self -proclaimed republic. "Corporal Ageev, who is currently in captivity, voluntarily joined the ranks of the People’s Police of the Lugansk People's Republic," Marochko quotes Interfax.
The participation of the Russian military personnel in the conflict in the east of Ukraine on the side of the LPR and the DPR has been confirmed repeatedly. In September 2016, in a suburb of Gorlovka, the 35-year-old Muscovite Denis Sidorov, who served in the intelligence of the DPR forces, surrendered to the Ukrainian military . During interrogation, he said that team posts in his brigade are occupied by exclusively personnel Russian military. In mid-August, the brigade commander changed-Colonel Alexei Berdnikov, who had previously commanded the 60th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 5th Army of the Eastern Military District, arrived in the place of Major General Igor Timofeev.
On August 31 last year, the Expert-Journalist group Bellingcat reported that since the beginning of the Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine , the Russian military received more than 10 thousand combat medals . Experts did not find the direct indications that the awards were carried out precisely for participating in the war with Ukraine, but the number of awards in 2014 and 2015, they noted, increased significantly compared to previous years.
Having made the assumption that not all the Russian military who participated in the battles were presented to the awards, the authors of the study came to the conclusion that the Kremlin attracted much more than 10 thousand soldiers and officers to the war in the east of Ukraine. Most likely, experts noticed, the total number of Russian military operating in Ukraine is measured in tens of thousands.