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Love of Artillerists from ‘Great Don Army’

on 12/14/2015 | | Donbas | News | Russian Military Assessment Print This Post Print This Post
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InformNapalm continues to investigate the ‘silk road’ of the Russian ‘military shops’ suppliers, which is used to ship the huge amount of various weaponry and equipment to Donbas. We have already disclosed a lot of cases of tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, etc deployment to the united Russian-terrorist forces. The tactical signs are not the only way to identify the Russian military equipment. Names given to vehicles by the militants also play a great role in this process.  

Vagid Shepiev (profile archive, album archive, contacts archive; real name on the nametape is Pavitin V.V.), a Russian serviceman, made a picture of named equipment on a training site near the Ukrainian border in Rostov Oblast in September, 2014. Shepiev-Pavitin served in one of the military units of the Southern Military District, and then signed a contract with the 7th military base (unit No. 09332, Gudauta, occupied Abkhazia, Georgia).

Shepiev 1Shepiev 2Shepiev 3

MT-LB with inscription ‘Akhmat-Khadgi’ apparently was named after Kadyrov, the first president of the Republic of Chechnya.

MTLB

These are two D-30 122mm howitzers with the names written with red paint – ‘Viktoria‘ and ‘Luba‘ [‘Love’ in Russian]. Guns without any inscriptions are present as well. 

D-30 (1)D-30 (2)

This T-64 tank with ‘T-84′ and ‘For Donbas’ writings is already familiar to you due to our previous publications. It was used by the militants in the fights near Debaltseve.

T-84T-84 (2)

As stated by V.Shepiev-Pavitin, all this equipment has become the militants’ weapons. It might have been traded for cigarettes… right? 

Shepiev 4Sigarets

Indeed, after some time all this weaponry and equipment was received by the ‘Novorossiya’ militants.

D-30 howitzers were found in the arsenal of the so-called ‘Great Don Army’ from ‘LPR’. This fact is proved by the photos from the album of Sergei Efremov (profile archive, album archive, contacts archive), one of the militants from Stakhanov town serving in this armed formation.

Efremov 1

VES 1VES 2 VES 3

It follows that the terrorists continue to use the territories of the windfarms to cover their positions – this was described in our article about the Novoazovskyi windfarm.

In this case, the weapons of the illegal armed formation is placed in the territory of the Lutuhynskyi windfarm in Lutuhynsky raion of Luhansk Oblast (archives 1, 2, 3).

  • One of the photos helped us to identify the approximate position of the filming site – check out the georeferencing.

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  • One of the howitzers has the familiar inscription – ‘Luba‘ [Love]. The color of the paint, size of the letters and the style is identical to the name registered in Rostov Oblast last year. 

D-30 (3)

D-30 (4)

Comparison of the inscriptions from D-30 gun

D-30-31

The video with howitzers was made by Vladimir Cherednichenko, Efremov’s brother-in-arms and countryman, who joined the ‘Great Don Army’ in 2015 (according to the ID from the pictures below). 

Profile archive, album archive, ID archive 1 and 2.

Cherednichenko 1Cherednichenko 2Cherednichenko 3

The video shows also guns with ‘For Novorossiya’ and ‘For Donbas’ inscriptions.

Among the photos of the artillerists of ‘Great Don Army’ formation you can find howitzers with ‘Viktoria‘, ‘Valkiria‘ and ‘Vesta‘ names written with white paint.

ValkiriaVictoriaVesta

The fact of the presence of at least one of the same D-30 guns registered earlier in the Russian Federation’s territory bordering Ukraine, demonstrates that this type of weapons was shipped from Russia. Other inscriptions are likely to have been added after the transfer howitzers to the militants’ formations.

Note: We’d like to remind that the Kyiv Court of Appeal decided to compensate ‘Wind Park Lutuhynskyi’ Ltd. the costs for supply of electricity in the period from 02.18.2015 till 25.03.2015 at the amount of 11 121 699.38 hryvnias. There are similar decisions for other wind farms located in the occupied territories under the control of insurgents.

Taking into account the above mentioned facts, it is pretty fun to listen to the statements of the Donbas terrorists.

“The self proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic does not receive any military aid from the Russian Federation. All weapons used by militias belonged to Ukraine”, – oathed Eduard Basurin, the deputy commander of the ‘DPR’ General Staff.

Please refer to other our articles about the Russian weaponry and equipment deployment to Donbas:

  • Russian Weaponry Deployment to Donbas: What and How
  • ‘Donetsk Express’ – Identification of Russian Weapons Sent to Donbas
  • ‘Truckers’
  • ‘Truckers’ from ‘Rublevka’ – 147th Automotive Logistic Support Battalion
  • ‘Truckers-2’ — Motorists of the Southern Military District

 

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Original article by Victory Krm, translated by Stepan Grishin

Tags: DonbasLPRRussian military equipment

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4 Responses to “Love of Artillerists from ‘Great Don Army’”

  1. 12/28/2015

    Russian Mercenary on the Secret Shipments: 'Teleportation' of Т-64 Tank from Russia to Donbas - InformNapalm.org (English) Reply

    […] like to remind that the latest article on this topic was published by our team on December 13. In this case our OSINT unit had traced the Russian weaponry from the […]

  2. 02/08/2016

    Dark Side of Telmanove. Guidebook for OSCE - InformNapalm.org (English) Reply

    […] One of the mortars has the serial number ‘B1659’ with the indication of the second category. The equipment had been supposedly stored at one of the equipment storage and maintenance bases. It should be mentioned that the Russian armed forces do not use D-30 mortars since 2013 (except the airborne forces). The removed from service equipment was transferred to the storage bases and then, as we can see, to the militants of ‘Novorossiya’. The fact of transferring of D-30 mortars was described in our previous investigation – Love of Artillerists from ‘Great Don Army’. […]

  3. 02/09/2016

    Den mörka sidan av samhället Telmanove i Donbass – Handledning för OSSE – InformNapalm på svenska Reply

    […] Det bör nämnas att de ryska väpnade styrkorna inte använder D-30 sedan 2013, med undantag av luftstyrkorna. Modellen avvecklades och överfördes till lagringsbaser. Därefter har de hamnat hos Novorossijas separatister. Vi har i en tidigare artikel beskrivit överföringen av D-30 till terroristerna i Donbass: “The great Don Army artillerists love“. […]

  4. 02/09/2016

    Den mørke siden av småbyen Telmanove i Donbass – Håndbok for OSSE – InformNapalm på norsk Reply

    […] Det bør nevnes at de russiske væpnede styrkene ikke bruker D-30 siden 2013, med unntak av luftstyrkene. Modellen ble demontert og overført til lagringsbaser. Deretter har våpnene blitt sendt til Novorossijas terrorister. Vi har i en tidligere artikkel beskrevet overføringen av D-30 til terroristene i Donbass: “The great Don Army artillerists love“. […]

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