{"id":10165,"date":"2017-01-22T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=10165"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:23:53","slug":"recipient-medal-order-merit-fatherland-donbas-veterans-7th-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/recipient-medal-order-merit-fatherland-donbas-veterans-7th-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipient of Medal of the Order \u201cFor Merit to the Fatherland\u201d and other Donbas veterans from the 7th Military Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a result of the<\/strong> new investigation<\/strong>,<\/strong> we disclose <\/strong>a<\/strong> name of <\/strong>a<\/strong> serviceman f<\/strong>rom<\/strong> the 7th Military Base who has not been <\/strong>previously <\/strong>included in the list of identified artillerymen, who served in<\/strong> the<\/strong> Battalion Tactical Group (BTG) of this<\/strong> Military <\/strong>B<\/strong>ase<\/strong>. <\/strong>Even m<\/strong>ore<\/strong>, the new character helped<\/strong> us to identify other \u201cDonbas veterans\u201d <\/strong>from <\/strong>of this <\/strong>Military Base<\/strong>, who <\/strong>received<\/strong> military awards, including quite rare one \u2013 <\/strong>the <\/strong>second class Medal of the Order <\/strong>\u201cFor<\/strong> Merit <\/strong>to<\/strong> the Fatherland<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> with swords, which is awarded only for participation in military operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the main objectives of InformNapalm international intelligence community is discovering and recording facts that prove participation of the Russian Armed Forces in the undeclared war against Ukraine. Besides identification of equipment and weaponry, deployed from Russia to Donbas, we identify Russian war criminals and military units of the Russian Armed Forces they serve in. We work on identification of Russian servicemen recently deployed to Ukraine and blended into illegal armed groups of Novorossia, as well as \u201cveterans\u201d of the active combat phase of the war in eastern of Ukraine in summer – autumn 2014 and later. OSINT investigators\u2019 efforts are focused on a group identification of entire military units, including composing and publication of the evidence base and personal data of Russian servicemen, who executed Kremlin\u2019s illegal orders. For example, 27 (!) our investigations were about servicemen from the 7th Military Base of occupation forces (military unit 09332, Gudauta, occupied Abkhazia, Georgia), which is a part of the 49th Army from the Southern Military District of Russia. We disclosed names of more than 50 Russian artillerymen, scouts, and communications men, including 7 officers and 10 recipients of different military awards from this military unit.<\/p>\n

After the investigation conducted in November of last year, we identified 21 artillery men<\/a> from the combined rocket and gun artillery battalion from the battalion tactical group (BTG) of the 7th Military Base. These servicemen were involved in shellfire of the Ukrainian territory in 2014. However, many war criminals have not been identified yet, and we continue our investigations. The results are published on a regular basis; this is one of them.<\/p>\n

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Subjects of in<\/strong>vestigation<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Nikolay Pestov<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    He was born on July 23, 1994, is native of the town of Serdobsk, Penza Oblast, Russia. Since the beginning of 2014, he has been a contract serviceman of the artillery unit of the 7th Military Base.<\/p>\n

    He has accounts on Russian social media websites VK<\/a> (archived profile<\/a>, photo album<\/a>, contacts<\/a>), and OK<\/a> (profile<\/a>,\u00a0photo album<\/a>,\u00a0 contacts<\/a>).<\/p>\n

    Based upon his photo album, he made a way, typical for military personnel of a BTG from the military unit 09332: in spring-summer of 2014 he was in Ashuluk training area and in summer-fall of 2014 in Rostov Oblast, from where the Ukrainian territory was shelled.<\/p>\n

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    Nikolay Pestov\u2019s album contains photos from the \u201cRostov-Ukraine mission of 2014\u201d period, including:<\/p>\n