Polonnes "Trophies"

Medusa found the Russian military who sent huge parcels from the border with Ukraine to Rubtsovsk. It is in this city that the majority of such cargoes goes

From the very beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, local residents and international journalists publish reports on the looting of Russian soldiers. In early April, video recordings from surveillance cameras from the SDEK company offices located on the border with Ukraine appeared on the Internet. They are supposedly captured by the military, sending TVs, clothes, tools and other things to Russia. The vast majority of the parcels that managed to identify the media go to Rubtsovsk - a city in the Altai Territory. Medusa studied the social networks of the senders of large packages and made their portraits. Apparently, all of them are the military of the Russian Guard. Among them: a fisherman, a buyer of cars and a machine gunner.

Messages about looting that the Russian military are engaged in, appear throughout the war . There are both personal evidence of the inhabitants of Ukraine and the interception of conversations of Russian soldiers published by the Ukrainian Security Service (there is no opportunity to confirm their authenticity). For example, on one of these records, the Russian says that his colleagues are “dragging all bags”, and he himself “a little cosmetics, women's sneakers and clothes - clarifying that“ a sports family lives here ”.

However, the most convincing evidence of possible looting was video recordings with a webcam from SDEK offices with people in military uniform; The first of them appeared in early April. On the sleeves of some senders of parcels, you can see the chevrons of Russian troops-in particular, the Russian BBC service drew attention to the Chevrons of the 56th Airborne School Brigade.

A three-hour video with the signature “Russian soldiers send things in Ukraine stolen in Ukraine through the SDEK” in early April posted the Belarusian Gayun telegram channel. He also received from an unnamed source the “array of personal data” of Russian soldiers who sent things with the help of SDEK from the Belarusian mosaur. The channel published the names and numbers of the phones of 16 people, who on April 2 sent large cargoes from the mozyr to Russia - weighing from 50 to 440 kilograms.

Meanwhile, the Russian activist project “Database database” published , as the “full list” of the military, who sent things from the mozyr on April 2: it contains 69 senders, next to their names are the weight of the premises, addresses and names of recipients, as well as orders for which it is possible to track departures. “ Mediazona Belarus” checked all the flowing parcels on the SDEK website - they really exist and are accepted in the Mozyr branch of the company. The initials of the recipients of the parcels specified on the SDEC website coincide with the specified “database”.

Most of the parcels from the mozyr sent on April 2, they go to the West Siberian city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai Territory - it was indicated by 49 senders of 69 published by the “Database”. Among the recipient cities there are also Moscow, Chita, Angarsk, Ulyanovsk, Omsk and Ussuriysk. The weight of the largest departure was almost half a ton - 440 kilograms (this package goes to Rubtsovsk), the smallest - only three kilograms. The average departure weight per person is 54 kilograms, the Medusa calculated.

Medusa managed to get 25 checks from SDEK with information about parcels sent on April 2 from the Mozyr branch to Rubtsovsk. They contain the name of the sender and the recipient, the phone numbers and the description of the goods. By comparing these data with the information of the Belarusian Gayun and Database projects, we found out that at least 16 out of 49 people, in addition to other things, sent instruments to Rubtsovsk, and 12 people - clothes. Among the items sent were also an electric steamer, a coffee machine, a tent, TVs and music columns.

Apparently, the first departures from Mozyr to Rubtsovsk began at the end of March. In one of the pro-Ukrainian telegram chats, whose participants are trying to deanonymize the Russian military, the Medusa correspondent found numbers and earlier departments to Rubtsovsk from the Mozyr branch of the SDEC. For example, the order for delivery from March 30, the day before the first messages of the Belarusian Gayun project, is that Russian soldiers were sending “possibly stolen” things in the Russian Federation. It can still be found on the SDEK website.

Shipment at night in the horseman

On January 13, 2022, an unknown man, walking along one of the central streets of Rubtsovsk, stole a snowman put up near the electrical engineering store. The video of the incident from the surveillance cameras was published in the group "Incident Rubtsovsk" on the social network "VKontakte". “Pickup,” the user “Vlad Rostov” commented on the post.

Three months later, Vlad himself, perhaps, got into a resonant video with a webcam from the Office of the SDEK express delivery office in the Belarusian city of Mozyr Gomel region, located near the border with Ukraine.

On April 2, Russian Vladislav simply, judging by the list of the Database project, sent three parcels from Mozyr to Rubtsovsk with a total weight of 121 kilograms. The recipient of the parcel is Olesya Docking, perhaps the wife of Vladislav.

Medusa tried to find the page of Vladislav on the VKontakte social network. Apparently, this is the above "Vlad Rostov." At first we found Olesya’s profile of a simple one from Rubtsovsk (now it was renamed “Olesya Posov” - by analogy with her husband, deleting one letter from the last name), but Vladislav does not have Vladislav in her friends. However, he like one of her old photographs, and on her Instagram (now the profile is closed; in the preview it is clear that her profession is a cosmetologist) published their joint photos.

On the avatar of the profile of Vladislav Rostov - a short -haired man in 30, in camouflage. Judging by the comments of the open social network, he is fond of fishing and Thai boxing. Among the subscriptions to local public and entertainment groups there are specialized military communities: “Special Forces Tactics”, “War News”.

In addition, “Vlad” is a participant in the “46 separate Order of Zhukov’s Operational Purpose”: this is the compound of the Russian Guard, which is based in Chechnya. Earlier, the investment project Conflict Intelligence Team reported that guards from the 46th brigade can participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

"Medusa" failed to find the connection of the publication with the Chechen compound of the National Guard. However, in 2012, a man with the same name and the date of birth indicated the military unit 6720, judging by the database "Residents of Russia" , to his place of work. Part is deployed in Rubtsovsk, this is 656 regiment of the operational appointment of the National Guard forces (Rosguard).

Vladislav simply can still serve in the military unit 6720 - the military from there accurately participate in the war in Ukraine: the Altai media wrote about the death of a soldier from this unit, and the scars sent parcels to military personnel 6720 in the framework of the “Service Parration” campaign.

What kind of military unit 6720?

On April 23, 1979, on the orders of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the basis of a team guarding the Altai Tractor Plant, a separate convoy battalion was formed, subsequently and became the military unit 6720. In 1995, the convoy battalion was reorganized into the regiment of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and in 1999-into the operational regiment.

From August 1995 to March 1997, more than four thousand soldiers of the unit 6720 fought in Chechnya. Later, military personnel of Part 6720 served in Dagestan.

In 2016, the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in full force were transferred to the Russian Guard. So the military unit 6720 became 656 regiment of the operational appointment of the National Guard (Rosguard).

On April 10, Vlad Rostov limited access to its profile and has not appeared on the network since then. Olesya gusts closed access to her Instagram. The phone number indicated in the profile is available for calls, but after prolonged beeps, only the voice of the answering machine is heard, offering to leave the subscriber a vocal message.

Spite of records

The largest load - 17 parcels weighing almost half a ton (440 kilograms) - on April 2, Russian Yevgeny Kovalenko sent from the mozyr to Rubtsovsk. Among other things, these are instruments, musical speakers, a table and a tent. The exact weight of each parcel is unknown, but if each cargo of 17 sent weighed the samely (25.8 kg), Kovalenko would have spent more than 52 thousand rubles to pay for delivery (the cost of sending one parcel to Rubtsovsk up to 50 kg, according to the “calculator” of the SDEK, is 3085 rubles).

In 2018, the newspaper Evgenia Kovalenko, who arrived at that very “Rosgvardeisky” military unit 6720, wrote about the Altai Pravda, about the young lieutenant. A native of the village of Gilevka Zavyalovsky district of the Altai Territory, he took office as the commander of the first intelligence system of the intelligence company.

“The main thing is to achieve respect. How to do it? Only a personal example - do like me. And try to always be a head above, ”Kovalenko answered the question of the correspondent of the Altai newspaper about how he will build relations with his subordinates.

Why is this the same Kovalenko?

Why do we believe that Evgeny Kovalenko with video recordings of the SDEK webcam and Evgeny Kovalenko from the publication of Altai Pravda is the same person?

Belarusian Gayun cites the full name of the sender of the parcels - Evgeny Evgenievich Kovalenko. A person with the same name, filling out an application for a F-20 medical certificate (is needed for settlement in campuses or hostels), the village of Gilevka, Altai Territory, indicated as a home address. Information about this follows from the leaks of personal data of Russians, which was studied by Medusa.

We compared three photos: a screenshot of the record from the webcam, where Kovalenko’s face is visible; photos from social networks of relatives Kovalenko, found by loading a screenshot from the Mozyr webcam into the FindClone recognition system; Photo from the newspaper Altai Pravda. In the picture from the newspaper you can notice a young man with the same line of hair growth as in the previous three photographs.

Also, Belarusian Gayun published a phone number-according to the information of a telegram channel owned by Evgeny Evgenievich Kovalenko. The Numbuster number to determine the numbers at the request of this number shows that other users recorded it as “Kovalenko E.E.”, “SIL commander” and “Kovalenko PP” (probably referring to the reconnaissance). In several people, he was recorded as “husband of Margo” or simply “Margo”: the recipient of his 17 packages, judging by the information of “Database”, is Margarita Kovalenko - his wife.

In childhood, as the newspaper wrote, Kovalenko “played the war with the boys”, watched films where “The soldiers boldly rushed into battle, protecting their homeland” - then he “originated the dream of becoming a military man.” After school, he entered the Novosibirsk Military Institute of Troops of the National Guard. I.K. Yakovlev.

In addition to the military service, Kovalenko was engaged in buying and selling cars, it follows from the ads of his profile on Avito, tied to the phone number, which he indicated in the SDEC. Among the archival ads of the profile: Nissan X-Trail for 1.3 million rubles and Toyota Vitz for 430 thousand rubles.

Avatarka Kovalenko in Telegram and on the Avito website - a hand on the BMW steering wheel. In 2021, Evgeny Kovalenko became the owner of the BMW X3 luxury crossover, follows from the long -legged traffic police databases.

Actual announcement (with the indicated address: Altai Territory, the city of Rubtsovsk) on the sale of cast discs for 14 thousand rubles published on January 12, 2022. Judging by the Avito website, the announcement was updated on March 13, 2022-in the midst of a military campaign in Ukraine.

Now, if you call the Kovalenko phone number, the call immediately switches to the answering machine.

The city of the winning TV

Rubtsovsk is located in the south of the Altai Territory. The population of the city barely exceeds 140 thousand people, follows from the data of Rosstat for 2019. At the same time, according to the same study by Rosstat, almost a third of local residents are pensioners (51 thousand people in 2019). Before the collapse of the USSR, Rubtsovsk is a large machine-building center of Western Siberia, a single-industry worker, which has grown around the Motoro-tractor factory. In 2011, the plant went bankrupt , now in its place is the wasteland with ruins. Rubtsovsk is also known for the fact that Lambert cheese is produced there.

The city has four correctional colonies at once (IR No. 4, 5, 9 and 10), which the Altai press calls the “island of stability”. The salary of the inspector in IR No. 10 is 27 thousand rubles, follows from the information about the vacancy on the website "Work of Russia"; While the salary of a cleaner in a local shopping center is from eight to nine thousand “on hand”, and a feldsher salary in the state hospital may vary from 18 to 25 thousand rubles. The salary of the shooter in the military unit 6720 - 25 thousand rubles. In urban publics, seekers are sometimes advised to go to the contract army.

Residents of Rubtsovsk complain to local journalists that there is practically no work in the city. Therefore, the Rubtsians have to look for third -party sources of income. “Baryga” (meaning trading than you have to) is a “profession” very common in Rubtsovsk, writes Altapress.ru Altai Portal.

“They trade, who can do something: used cars, materials from disassembled factories, Kazakh cigarettes and vodka. Some are very successful, ”says altapress.ru. - Rubtsovsk is a city of unemployed on expensive cars, a city of large social stratification. The concentration of Lexus, Infinity, the dear Toyota here is definitely no less than in Barnaul. At the same time, the income of many does not exceed the subsistence level. ”

At least every fifth (10 out of 49 people), the sender of goods in Rubtsovsk on April 2, which became known to journalists, paid for the delivery of the TV. (We received this figure, comparing the data of SDEK checks received from the Medusa source in the company's office, with the information of the Belarusian Gayun projects and the database).

Evgeny Chuchalin, who sent several TVs to Rubtsovsk at once, in 2019 he was already selling “Sonni TV” (author's spelling saved) for 30 thousand rubles. Information about this was preserved in the archival ads of his profile on Avito, tied to the phone number, which Chuchalin indicated in the SDEK office.

The recipient of the parcel of Eugene is indicated by Natalya Chuchaina, his wife. Medusa found her page on the VKontakte social network, which earlier, judging by the surviving archive snapshot, was common with them. Then, in the profile, the place of work was named the same military unit 6720.

The phone number indicated by Chuchalin is now blocked. His wife closed her VKontakte profile and did not answer the Medusa correspondent for an application for adding friends.

Judging by the check from SDEK, the TV in Rubtsovsk was also sent by 28-year-old Dmitry Zhumalin, who graduated from the school in the small village of Novogoryevskoye of the Altai Territory (we were able to find his profiles on social networks thanks to the numbers of Zhumalin in one of the checks of the SDEK; he indicated information about the date and place of birth on his page on Vkontakte). Judging by the database “Residents of Russia” , in 2018, a person with the same name and birth date held the position of senior machine gunner in military unit 6720.

"The one who knows how to wait is always the best!" - This status has Zhumalin in the VKontakte profile . When trying to get to Zhumalin’s phone number, as well as by the number of his relative indicated in the SDEK check, the answering machine reports that “the number is temporarily blocked”.

Some senders of the premises from the mozyr do not hide their connection with the army. On their pages in social networks, which Medusa managed to find, comparing the issuance of VKontakte from the internal search with the publications “Belarusian Gayun” and “Database databases”, as well as with SDEK checks, you can notice photos in military uniform. For example, Dmitry Solodovnikov, who allegedly sent three parcels with a total weight of 66 kilograms, posted on VKontakte his photo in which the field chevron of the internal troops can be seen. The profile indicates the city of residence - Rubtsovsk. Judging by the data of the “Residents of Russia”, in 2020 he served as a machine gunner in Part 6720. The phone number of Solodovnikov is now blocked.

The 32-year-old Artem Lazarev, who sent spare parts and electric Samochas (in total 255 kilograms) to Rubtsovsk openly published a military uniform. A graduate of the Omsk Tank Engineering Institute, Lazarev adheres to “monarchical views”, is fond of sports and loves hunting, follows from the information of his profile on VKontakte. In one of Lazarev’s joint photographs with his wife, one can also notice the Chevron of the internal troops - an indirect evidence that he serves in the same part as the already mentioned senders of the parcels.

Lazareva's phone number is blocked. The old page of his wife, on which the above joint photography is published, is open (on the wall of the profile, pro -Ukrainian users of social networks write curses; “I hope you will kill ***** [nafi] on the stolen electric scooter,” the last comment looks like).

Probably, all the senders of the parcels from the mozyr to Rubtsovsk - military personnel of 656 regiment of the operational appointment of the troops of the National Guard (military unit 6720) - in open sources there is no information about other active units deployed in Rubtsovsk.

"Zdarova, are you still alive?"

«Беларускi Гаюн», назвавший российских солдат с видео мародерами, сообщал и о том, что военнослужащие из РФ активно закупаются в магазинах Мозыря, приобретая бытовую технику и косметику. По словам сотрудников СДЭК, с которыми поговорило издание «Зеркало», отправлявшие 2 апреля посылки российские военные объясняли, что в Беларуси технику «дешевле приобретать». Как убедилась «Медуза», техника на самом деле стоит примерно одинаково: например, телевизор LG 32LK510BPLD в минском интернет-магазине Techno стоит 967 белорусских рублей (около 27,5 тысячи российских рублей), а в московском магазине DNS он обойдется даже дешевле: в 23 тысячи рублей. В Беларуси телевизор Thomson T32RTM6020 стоит 942 белорусских рубля — то есть 26,5 тысячи рублей, а в России — 27,5 тысячи.

Как выяснила «Медуза», спустя несколько дней после выхода резонансных видеороликов генеральный директор СДЭК Леонид Гольдорт подписал приказ, запрещающий принимать к отправлению посылки с товарами, если отправитель не может подтвердить право собственности на них (например, предоставив кассовый чек). Кроме того, 7 апреля офис компании начал время от времени отключать видеотрансляции камер из своих отделений на границе с Украиной. В тот же день на официальном сайте СДЭК появилось сообщение о том, что в примерно 200 пунктах выдачи заказов наблюдаются сбои трансляций с камер наблюдения.

По состоянию на 13 апреля две трети посылок, которые были отправлены 2 апреля из Мозыря, исчезли из системы СДЭК или получили статус «не вручено», обратила внимание « Медиазона Беларусь». В 16 случаях сайт СДЭК выдает ошибку (статус «Заказ не найден»), словно этого отправления никогда не было, либо оно было удалено. 29 заказов имеют статус «Не вручен». Такой статус присваивается , когда посылка была доставлена по адресу, но ее «не удалось вручить получателю, либо получатель не забрал ее в течение двух недель после поступления». При этом 17 посылок российских военных к моменту публикации материала находятся в пути, пять вручены, а две ожидают вручения.

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Отправлявшие посылки россияне, чьи контактные данные были опубликованы, получают шквал звонков и сообщений в социальных сетях от проукраинских активистов. Информацией об успешных «дозвонах» активисты делятся друг с другом в специальных телеграм-чатах по деанонимизации российских военных, обнаружил корреспондент «Медузы». «Короче, один хер телефон у последнего мародера рабочий, — пишет один из участников чата. — Но трубку не берет. До бабы его я дозвонился, но не записал. Они *** [блин] все непричемыши…»

Корреспондент «Медузы» спросил у другого участника чата, удалось ли ему дозвониться до российских военнослужащих. «Один ответил мне в течение пяти минут. На мое приветствие „Здарова, ты еще живой?“ он сказал — „Слава России“. Писал тут еще другому, не отвечает уже три дня. И, наверное, не ответит», — сообщил респондент (намекая, вероятно, на гибель своего собеседника во время боевых действий).

Николаю Степанову , который отправил в Уссурийск 140 килограммов запчастей и кондиционер, дозвонился человек, чей голос могут узнать любители телефонных розыгрышей, — украинский телефонный пранкер Евгений Вольнов (настоящее имя — Никита Кувиков). Запись он выложил в своем телеграм-канале. В 2020-м в России Вольнова заочно приговорили к шести годам лишения свободы за «публичное оправдание терроризма». Еще одно дело против Вольнова возбуждено за то, что в день пожара в торговом центре «Зимняя вишня» он позвонил в кемеровский морг и сообщил работнику, что из торгового центра «привезут более 300 тел».

«Мы вынуждены остановить вашу посылку, так как поступила информация, что вещи были украдены. Мы будем вынуждены вернуть их назад в Украину. Где вы взяли эти запчасти и кондиционер? У вас имеются чеки?» — говорит в трубку пранкер, представившись сотрудником компании СДЭК.

Степанов в ответ произносит что-то непонятное. «Мы вырежем тебя и твою семью. Тебя и твоих подельников. Ты понял, пидорас? — говорит на это Вольнов. — Ты от ответственности не уйдешь».

Andrey Zaitsev