{"id":10919,"date":"2017-04-28T06:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2017-04-29T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T08:10:46","slug":"hague-tribunal-awaits-tankmen-russian-army-s-136th-brigade-lists-documents-orders-osint-humint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/hague-tribunal-awaits-tankmen-russian-army-s-136th-brigade-lists-documents-orders-osint-humint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hague tribunal awaits tankmen of Russian Army\u2019s 136th Brigade: lists, documents, orders. OSINT+HUMINT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Background: OSINT &amp; HUMINT<\/h2>\n<p>In 1947, CIA analyst Sherman Kent, the father of intelligence analysis, claimed that in peace time, policy makers get up to 80% of the decision-making information from public sources. Later, in the 1970s, Samuel Wilson, Director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, stated that up to 90% of intelligence comes from open sources, and merely 10% is obtained through the agent network (HUMINT). In the modern connected world, with the Internet, social media and other means of communication being omnipresent, up to 99% of intelligence can be obtained from open sources. Protected data are often more eloquent, but using both types of data offers the most efficient combination.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first feature in a series of publications prepared by InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community to demonstrate the consolidated data obtained through open-source intelligence (OSINT), then complimented and confirmed by the non-public and confidential data extracted from the computer systems of the chief of staff of the reconnaissance battalion of Russian Army\u2019s 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade (MRB), military unit # 63354. The non-public part of the intelligence data used for the consolidated analysis was provided to InformNapalm volunteers on exclusive terms by hacktivists of the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/uca\/\">Ukrainian Cyber Alliance<\/a><em>(UCA and CyberHunta).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_IoHyg0kI48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Meet the source of the confidential data<\/h2>\n<p>Doroshenko Oleg Vladimirovich, born on October 27, 1984. As of mid-2014, captain Doroshenko served as the chief of staff of the reconnaissance battalion of Russia\u2019s 136th MRB (military unit # 63354).<\/p>\n<p>He got into crosshairs of the UCA hacktivists after his deployment to Donbas, where he accessed his personal e-mail from the PC of the reconnaissance commander of the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/reconnaissance-commander-of-the-2nd-army-corps-in-the-focus-of-the-uca-part-5-psnr-8\/\">2nd Army Corps (AC)<\/a> of the Luhansk People&#8217;s Republic (LPR) terrorist organization. His Donbas deployment is assumed to have lasted from autumn 2014 till winter 2015.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"st-toggle\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<h3 class=\"toggle-title\"> Oleg Doroshenko\u2019s background details: <i class=\"icon-plus\"><\/i><i class=\"icon icon-minus\"><\/i><\/h3>\n<div class=\"toggle-content\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"txt-content\">\n<p>His registered address of residence is 7 Bibliotechnaia str., apartment 153, Volgograd, Russia.<br \/>\nHe graduated from Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School (NVVKU) in 2007. This is his social media page: <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id99564543\">https:\/\/vk.com\/id99564543<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>These are his mobile phone numbers that he used in mid-2016: +79610705866, +79069999472.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are his personal photos and scans of his passport and other documents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_011.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_009.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_010.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_012.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0Data disclosed through captain Doroshenko<\/h2>\n<p>The disclosures include documentary evidence of the deployment of military personnel from Buynaksk (military unit # 63354) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/maps\/place\/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0,+%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB.,+%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F,+347833\/@48.3023841,40.1467901,16z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!1m2!2m1!1z0L_QvtC_0L7QstC60LAg0YDQvtGB0YLQvtCy0YHQutCw0Y8g0L7QsdC70LDRgdGC0Yw!3m4!1s0x411e16add0e91bd5:0xca8cb0cd7565c019!8m2!3d48.2987261!4d40.1467896\">Popovka <\/a>\u00a0(Kamenskiy raion of Russia\u2019s Rostov Oblast), which is only 18\u00a0km away from Izvaryne border point in Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk Oblast, in August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Official orders stored on Doroshenko&#8217;s PC contain clearly separated sections dedicated to departures and arrivals of the military personnel to\/from training grounds, missions, hospitals, and vacations. The deployment in Popovka was based on the <strong>combat order #\u00a0015 of August 12, 2014, issued by the chief of staff of the Russian military unit # 47084.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This military unit number matches the Command of Russia\u2019s 58th Army in Russian Federation\u2019s Southern Military District (the Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania, the city of Vladikavkaz). At that time, this Army was under the command of <strong>Andrey Viktorovich Gurulev.<\/strong>\u00a0General major Gurulev is <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/get-things-youre-shipped-kyiv-court-given-green-light-arrest-shoygu\/\">under investigation of Ukraine\u2019s Prosecutor General Office<\/a> on charges of crimes against the national security of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>While on the mission, military personnel from Buynaksk were under the direct command of <strong>guards colonel Mikhail Borisovich Lebiodko<\/strong>, commander of military unit #\u00a063354, as confirmed <strong>by unit order #\u00a0198 of August 23, 2014, until September 6, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Documents for review:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/198-prikaz-ot-23.08.14g-UBYTIE-KOMANDIRA.doc\">Order # 198 of August 23, 2014\u2014DEPARTURE OF THE COMMANDER<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/213-prikaz-ot-06.09.14g-PRIBYTIE-KOMANDIRA.doc\">Order # 213 of September 6, 2014\u2014ARRIVAL OF THE COMMANDER.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"st-toggle\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<h3 class=\"toggle-title\"> Mikhail Lebiodko\u2019s background details: <i class=\"icon-plus\"><\/i><i class=\"icon icon-minus\"><\/i><\/h3>\n<div class=\"toggle-content\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"txt-content\">\n<p>Guards colonel Mikhail Lebiodko is an interesting character with a large commander experience and a fulfilling career.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lebedko-300x225.jpg\" \/>From February to May 2010<\/strong>, he was the acting commander of the 138th Motorized Rifle Guards Brigade (military unit # 02511) in Kamenka, Leningrad Oblast. Lebiodko was removed from this position due to a number of incidents that occurred during three months of his being in command: a group of recruits had been beaten by drunk sergeants, a T-80 crew shot two officers on the lookout tower to death.<\/p>\n<p>Before Kamenka, Lebiodko was the commander of a military unit in Strugi Krasnyie in Pskov Oblast.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Chief of the Combined Staff of Joint Peacekeeping Forces in Transnistria <strong>from December 1, 2011, until December 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since 2013<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>he has been in command of the 136th MRB in Buynaksk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Background for the deployment of the Russian Army in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>August 2014 was a month of intense fighting and a sweeping offensive of the Ukrainian Army that could have resulted in a complete defeat of Russia-supported illegal armed groups (IAG) in Donbas. There were heavy battles near Luhansk Airport during that month. Ukrainian Army concentrated forces for a final thrust towards Ukraine\u2019s state border. Restoring control over the border would have prevented Russian convoys with military equipment and ammunition from getting across, and would have effectively spelled the end of the proxy &#8220;people&#8217;s republics&#8221; in Donbas. In order to turn the situation, the Russian high command decided to deploy large forces in the form of battalion tactical groups consisting of various military units to reinforce the IAGs.<\/p>\n<p>InformNapalm obtained from captain Doroshenko\u2019s hacked e-mail the intelligence data on the group of military personnel from Buynaksk deployed to Popovka near the Ukrainian border which counted around 500 servicemen &#8211; scouts, tankmen and artillerymen. The term for <strong><em>&#8220;a mission&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> was re-worded as <strong><em>\u201cassignment to the Southern Group of Forces in Rostov Oblast\u201d<\/em><\/strong> in the orders issued in the military unit in summer and autumn 2014.\u00a0The new wording was based on the combat order mentioned above or, in several instances, on telegrams from the chief of staff of the 58th Army.\u00a0<strong>It is this term, that is shared by all documents pertaining to the military personnel from Buynaksk, whom we found and spotted in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bylo-300x256.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"206\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stalo-300x246.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The retrieved documents mention one more combat order<strong> #\u00a010 of August 10, 2008, of the commanding officer of the 58th Army<\/strong>.\u00a0That order referred to <strong><em>\u201cperformance of the combat duty in the Republic of South Ossetia on peace enforcement in the Republic of Georgia\u201d<\/em><\/strong>. Again, this confirms the combat, rather than training, nature of the orders.<\/p>\n<p>According to the retrieved secondment orders, the military personnel of Russian Army\u2019s 136th MRB began their combat missions as part of the Southern Group of Forces starting from the dates indicated below and broken down by category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the logistics battalion &#8211; from July 25, 2014;<\/li>\n<li>the signallers &#8211; from August 2, 2014;<\/li>\n<li>the artillerymen &#8211; from August 16, 2014;<\/li>\n<li>the tankmen &#8211; August 17, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the first feature opening a series of publications on this topic. It will be followed by a disclosure of the full lists of the military personnel of the 136th MRB with the information about servicemen awarded or killed as a result of being involved in combat missions on the basis of the orders issued by the command of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. Notably, many last names from these lists have already been mentioned in OSINT investigations or media reports adding up to the evidence of Russia\u2019s military crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Below, is the list of tankmen assigned to the Southern Group of Forces in Rostov Oblast by the<strong> Order #\u00a0190 of August 15, 2014.<\/strong>\u00a0Further details are provided in the table with the indication of <strong>social media accounts<\/strong> of the military personnel, their <strong>personal numbers<\/strong> indicated in the orders, their ranks, exact positions, and links to OSINT investigations where the relevant military serviceman was mentioned in the context of either the Russian intervention in Ukraine or due to being awarded combat honors in peace time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1-lEElXXJatZ1LbuvCbocnYe3RlgCMQI_zoi-hzSZ91Y\/pubhtml?widget=true&amp;headers=false\" width=\"930\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below, you can see links between VK social media accounts of tankmen from the 136th MRB (red dots) with their shared friends (black dots). In the right column, you can see first and last names, and VK IDs:<br \/>\nvisit the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/d\/network\/\"><strong>social connections cluster page<\/strong><\/a> custom-built for InformNapalm readers. You can enter the last name of a serviceman in the search field on the left, and see who he is connected to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The information from secondment orders of Buynaksk tankmen to the borderline area with Ukraine in 2014, not only confirmed the available information but also helped locate other military personnel awarded for taking part in the war against Ukraine:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Aleksandr Vitalievich Vasilyev<\/strong>,\u00a0the commander of the 1st armored platoon of the 2nd armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Order of Courage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maksim Vitalievich Brodnikov<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 1st armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Suvorov Medal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chubarev<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 2nd armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Suvorov Medal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Denis Mikhailovich Ogorelkov<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 3rd armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal of Suvorov and Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maksim Vitalievich Brodnikov<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 2nd armored platoon of the 3rd armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gennadiy Vladimirovich Segeda<\/strong>, the senior tank driver of the command section of the signal platoon of the armored battalion, was also awarded some medals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prokopiy Prokopyevich Kobiakov<\/strong>, the tank driver of the 3rd armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal of Suvorov.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dmitriy Andreyevich Zaytsev<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 1st armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sergey Valeryevich Tizhankin<\/strong>, the senior tank driver of the 2nd armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nikolay Nikolayevich Zagumennov<\/strong>, the tank driver of the 1st armored platoon of the 2nd armored company of the armored battalion, was, as reported by the Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/rt-online.ru\/v-kazanskom-kremle-sostoyalsya-torzhestvennyj-priem-po-sluchayu-prazdnovaniya-dnya-zashhitnika-otechestva\/\">media<\/a> awarded the Medal of Suvorov.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MyCollages-1-300x300.png\" width=\"179\" height=\"179\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MyCollages-300x300.png\" width=\"177\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This table also contains details of <strong>Vitaliy Veniaminovich Marakasov<\/strong>, a Russian military serviceman who loved to make selfies in Donbas. His photos of the Russian incursion into Luhansk Oblast on T-90A tanks were featured in a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-t-90-tanks-136th-motorized-rifle-brigade-luhansk-region\/\">InformNapalm\u2019s OSINT investigations<\/a> and were used in <a href=\"https:\/\/prometheus.ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Donbas_v_Ogni_ENG_web_1-4.pdf\">\u00a0Donbas in Flames<\/a>guidebook. We could establish the exact position of Marakasov through the information from the retrieved secondment orders. He is a grenade launcher operator of the 3rd section of the 3rd platoon of the 7th company of the 3rd mechanized infantry battalion of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army.<br \/>\nIt is likely that the above table features the people who posted the video of the T-90A incursion near Novosvetlovka of Luhansk Oblast (the video was found on social media by investigative blogger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/askai707\/status\/800703746200190976\">Askai)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbZQ71614lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thus, we have gathered information about 73 military men of the armored battalion of military unit # 63354 from Buynaksk, including 26 \u201cawardees\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Body bags from Donbas<\/h2>\n<p>It can be seen from the orders stored by Doroshenko that some people have not come back alive from assignments to the Southern Group of Forces. InformNapalm mentioned in its previous <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/devils-dozen-buynaksk-awarded-war-donbas\/\">publication<\/a> that the only known casualty was <strong>Aleksandr Igorevich Vedernikov<\/strong>, commander of the command tank of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion (EX-763258, DOB June 30, 1993). He was also mentioned in Order #\u00a0190 of August 15, 2014, dispatching a group of military personnel to Popovka near the Ukrainian border on August 17, 2014.<br \/>\nOn the basis of another order of the commander of military unit 63354 under <strong>#\u00a0235 of October 1, 2014,<\/strong> <strong>Aleksandr Vedernikov<\/strong> and another serviceman <strong>Oleg Viktorovich Kuznetsov<\/strong> (X-261642), effective from September 2, 2014, were <strong>delisted from the muster roll of military unit # 63354 in connection with their death.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/235-prikaz-ot-01.10.14g.doc\">Download Order # 235 dated October 1, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0Price of Silence for Relatives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vedernikov-225x300.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kuznecov-225x300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The InformNapalm team located social media accounts of Oleg Kuznetsov\u2019s wife Nina, his mother-in-law, Tatyana Simakina, and his mother, Inessa Kuznetsova. Oleg\u2019s parents live in the Girey township of Krasnodar Oblast in 241 Lenina str. Contact phone number of his father Viktor is 89604843026. His wife Nina lives in the city of Kropotkin. Oleg Kuznetsov\u2019s relatives, as well as the mother of Vedernikov, the second killed serviceman, have not mentioned his death in their social media accounts at all. Only some posts by his mother indirectly confirm that she had lost a family member. According to Order No.\u00a0235, the price of silence includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>for captain Oleg Kuznetsov\u2019s wife\u2014the annual subsistence benefit for the year 2014 in the amount of one monthly salary (Ed: bare salary without bonuses, position increments and benefits normally makes less than a half of serviceman&#8217;s total pay); the August 2014 salary in full; the August 2014 monthly bonus for the proper and efficient performance of service duties in full;<\/li>\n<li>a once-off benefit to be split equally among his family members paid on the basis of Order No.\u00a01100 of May 6, 2012, of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to captain Kuznetsov\u2019s wife, father, and mother in connection with his death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Video.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the order, the same payments were made to Vedernikov\u2019s mother, Laysan Vedernikova. Aleksandr Vedernikov, a conscript soldier, was appointed as a tank commander on August 28, 2014. The amount of pay in his military specialization grade amounted to <strong>mere RUB\u00a017,000 (about $ 300).\u00a0<\/strong>That is the price Russian soldiers are doled out to carry out criminal orders, and ultimately to die for.<\/p>\n<p>Some paragraphs from Doroshenko\u2019s documents describe the status of the infosecurity and the protection of classified documents in his military unit:<em>\u00a0\u201cThe status of the secrecy procedures in the course of the management of the information classified as state secrets and the protection of the computer information against unauthorized access can be deemed satisfactory, subject to corrective action on the detected violations and deficiencies\u201d.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Well, we beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/?s=136+%D0%9E%D0%9C%D0%A1%D0%91%D1%80\">the open-source evidence<\/a> of the involvement of Russia\u2019s 136th MRB from Buynaksk in the combat action in Ukraine has been corroborated by documents. These materials will be used as evidence by the future international and, we believe, domestic Russian courts when even stones on graves of meaninglessly deceased Russian military servicemen would testify.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are providing a link to the file archive of captain Doroshenko\u2019s mailbox below. It contains a lot of information on the 136th MRB, including the muster roll of the reconnaissance battalion. We have excluded the orders, which are still analyzed by InformNapalm\u2019s volunteers and will be used in our future publications (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Qe1Cuj\">this is a link to the archive file without the orders<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8997 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>This publication was prepared by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\">Victory Krm<\/a> <em>and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a> <em>specially for\u00a0InformNapalm web site<\/em>. <em>Translated by Oleksandr Ivanov, edited by Artem Velichko.\u00a0<\/em><em>An active link to the authors and<\/em> <em>our project is obligatory for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>(Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014\u00a0<\/em><em>CC BY 4.0\u00a0<\/em><em>) For notifications about InformNapalm investigations<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informnapalm24\/\">follow the community page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: OSINT &amp; HUMINT In 1947, CIA analyst Sherman Kent, the father of intelligence analysis, claimed that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":10920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[529,528,5,679,641],"tags":[677,744,167,399],"class_list":["post-10919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donbas","category-news","category-terrorussians","category-top-investigations","category-uca","tag-136th-motorized-rifle-brigade","tag-hague-court","tag-russian-armed-forces","tag-russian-tanks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Hague tribunal awaits tankmen of Russian Army\u2019s 136th Brigade: lists, documents, orders. 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Later, in the 1970s, Samuel Wilson, Director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, stated that up to 90% of intelligence comes from open sources, and merely 10% is obtained through the agent network (HUMINT). In the modern connected world, with the Internet, social media and other means of communication being omnipresent, up to 99% of intelligence can be obtained from open sources. Protected data are often more eloquent, but using both types of data offers the most efficient combination.\r\n\r\nThis is the first feature in a series of publications prepared by InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community to demonstrate the consolidated data obtained through open-source intelligence (OSINT), then complimented and confirmed by the non-public and confidential data extracted from the computer systems of the chief of staff of the reconnaissance battalion of Russian Army\u2019s 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade (MRB), military unit # 63354. The non-public part of the intelligence data used for the consolidated analysis was provided to InformNapalm volunteers on exclusive terms by hacktivists of the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/uca\/\">Ukrainian Cyber Alliance<\/a><em>(UCA and CyberHunta).<\/em>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/_IoHyg0kI48\r\n<h2>Meet the source of the confidential data<\/h2>\r\nDoroshenko Oleg Vladimirovich, born on October 27, 1984. As of mid-2014, captain Doroshenko served as the chief of staff of the reconnaissance battalion of Russia\u2019s 136th MRB (military unit # 63354).\r\n\r\nHe got into crosshairs of the UCA hacktivists after his deployment to Donbas, where he accessed his personal e-mail from the PC of the reconnaissance commander of the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/reconnaissance-commander-of-the-2nd-army-corps-in-the-focus-of-the-uca-part-5-psnr-8\/\">2nd Army Corps (AC)<\/a> of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) terrorist organization. His Donbas deployment is assumed to have lasted from autumn 2014 till winter 2015.\r\n\r\n[toggle]\r\n\r\n[toggle_item title =\"\u00a0Oleg Doroshenko\u2019s background details: \"]\r\n\r\nHis registered address of residence is 7 Bibliotechnaia str., apartment 153, Volgograd, Russia.\r\nHe graduated from Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School (NVVKU) in 2007. This is his social media page: <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id99564543\">https:\/\/vk.com\/id99564543<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>These are his mobile phone numbers that he used in mid-2016: +79610705866, +79069999472.\r\n\r\n<strong>These are his personal photos and scans of his passport and other documents:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_011.png\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_009.png\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_010.png\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Selection_012.png\" \/>\r\n\r\n[\/toggle_item]\r\n[\/toggle]\r\n<h2>\u00a0Data disclosed through captain Doroshenko<\/h2>\r\nThe disclosures include documentary evidence of the deployment of military personnel from Buynaksk (military unit # 63354) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/maps\/place\/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0,+%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB.,+%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F,+347833\/@48.3023841,40.1467901,16z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!1m2!2m1!1z0L_QvtC_0L7QstC60LAg0YDQvtGB0YLQvtCy0YHQutCw0Y8g0L7QsdC70LDRgdGC0Yw!3m4!1s0x411e16add0e91bd5:0xca8cb0cd7565c019!8m2!3d48.2987261!4d40.1467896\">Popovka <\/a>\u00a0(Kamenskiy raion of Russia\u2019s Rostov Oblast), which is only 18\u00a0km away from Izvaryne border point in Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk Oblast, in August 2014.\r\n\r\nOfficial orders stored on Doroshenko's PC contain clearly separated sections dedicated to departures and arrivals of the military personnel to\/from training grounds, missions, hospitals, and vacations. The deployment in Popovka was based on the <strong>combat order #\u00a0015 of August 12, 2014, issued by the chief of staff of the Russian military unit # 47084.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis military unit number matches the Command of Russia\u2019s 58th Army in Russian Federation\u2019s Southern Military District (the Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania, the city of Vladikavkaz). At that time, this Army was under the command of <strong>Andrey Viktorovich Gurulev.<\/strong>\u00a0General major Gurulev is <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/get-things-youre-shipped-kyiv-court-given-green-light-arrest-shoygu\/\">under investigation of Ukraine\u2019s Prosecutor General Office<\/a> on charges of crimes against the national security of Ukraine.\r\n\r\nWhile on the mission, military personnel from Buynaksk were under the direct command of <strong>guards colonel Mikhail Borisovich Lebiodko<\/strong>, commander of military unit #\u00a063354, as confirmed <strong>by unit order #\u00a0198 of August 23, 2014, until September 6, 2014.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nDocuments for review:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/198-prikaz-ot-23.08.14g-UBYTIE-KOMANDIRA.doc\">Order # 198 of August 23, 2014\u2014DEPARTURE OF THE COMMANDER<\/a>;<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/213-prikaz-ot-06.09.14g-PRIBYTIE-KOMANDIRA.doc\">Order # 213 of September 6, 2014\u2014ARRIVAL OF THE COMMANDER.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[toggle]\r\n[toggle_item title =\"\u00a0Mikhail Lebiodko\u2019s background details: \"]\r\n\r\nGuards colonel Mikhail Lebiodko is an interesting character with a large commander experience and a fulfilling career.\r\n\r\n<strong><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lebedko-300x225.jpg\" \/>From February to May 2010<\/strong>, he was the acting commander of the 138th Motorized Rifle Guards Brigade (military unit # 02511) in Kamenka, Leningrad Oblast. Lebiodko was removed from this position due to a number of incidents that occurred during three months of his being in command: a group of recruits had been beaten by drunk sergeants, a T-80 crew shot two officers on the lookout tower to death.\r\n\r\nBefore Kamenka, Lebiodko was the commander of a military unit in Strugi Krasnyie in Pskov Oblast.\r\n\r\nHe served as Chief of the Combined Staff of Joint Peacekeeping Forces in Transnistria <strong>from December 1, 2011, until December 2012.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Since 2013<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>he has been in command of the 136th MRB in Buynaksk.\r\n\r\n[\/toggle_item]\r\n[\/toggle]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2>Background for the deployment of the Russian Army in Ukraine<\/h2>\r\nAugust 2014 was a month of intense fighting and a sweeping offensive of the Ukrainian Army that could have resulted in a complete defeat of Russia-supported illegal armed groups (IAG) in Donbas. There were heavy battles near Luhansk Airport during that month. Ukrainian Army concentrated forces for a final thrust towards Ukraine\u2019s state border. Restoring control over the border would have prevented Russian convoys with military equipment and ammunition from getting across, and would have effectively spelled the end of the proxy \"people's republics\" in Donbas. In order to turn the situation, the Russian high command decided to deploy large forces in the form of battalion tactical groups consisting of various military units to reinforce the IAGs.\r\n\r\nInformNapalm obtained from captain Doroshenko\u2019s hacked e-mail the intelligence data on the group of military personnel from Buynaksk deployed to Popovka near the Ukrainian border which counted around 500 servicemen - scouts, tankmen and artillerymen. The term for <strong><em>\"a mission\"<\/em><\/strong> was re-worded as <strong><em>\u201cassignment to the Southern Group of Forces in Rostov Oblast\u201d<\/em><\/strong> in the orders issued in the military unit in summer and autumn 2014.\u00a0The new wording was based on the combat order mentioned above or, in several instances, on telegrams from the chief of staff of the 58th Army.\u00a0<strong>It is this term, that is shared by all documents pertaining to the military personnel from Buynaksk, whom we found and spotted in Ukraine.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bylo-300x256.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"206\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stalo-300x246.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"206\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe retrieved documents mention one more combat order<strong> #\u00a010 of August 10, 2008, of the commanding officer of the 58th Army<\/strong>.\u00a0That order referred to <strong><em>\u201cperformance of the combat duty in the Republic of South Ossetia on peace enforcement in the Republic of Georgia\u201d<\/em><\/strong>. Again, this confirms the combat, rather than training, nature of the orders.\r\n\r\nAccording to the retrieved secondment orders, the military personnel of Russian Army\u2019s 136th MRB began their combat missions as part of the Southern Group of Forces starting from the dates indicated below and broken down by category:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>the logistics battalion - from July 25, 2014;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>the signallers - from August 2, 2014;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>the artillerymen - from August 16, 2014;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>the tankmen - August 17, 2014.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThis is the first feature opening a series of publications on this topic. It will be followed by a disclosure of the full lists of the military personnel of the 136th MRB with the information about servicemen awarded or killed as a result of being involved in combat missions on the basis of the orders issued by the command of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. Notably, many last names from these lists have already been mentioned in OSINT investigations or media reports adding up to the evidence of Russia\u2019s military crimes.\r\n\r\nBelow, is the list of tankmen assigned to the Southern Group of Forces in Rostov Oblast by the<strong> Order #\u00a0190 of August 15, 2014.<\/strong>\u00a0Further details are provided in the table with the indication of <strong>social media accounts<\/strong> of the military personnel, their <strong>personal numbers<\/strong> indicated in the orders, their ranks, exact positions, and links to OSINT investigations where the relevant military serviceman was mentioned in the context of either the Russian intervention in Ukraine or due to being awarded combat honors in peace time.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1-lEElXXJatZ1LbuvCbocnYe3RlgCMQI_zoi-hzSZ91Y\/pubhtml?widget=true&amp;headers=false\" width=\"930\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nBelow, you can see links between VK social media accounts of tankmen from the 136th MRB (red dots) with their shared friends (black dots). In the right column, you can see first and last names, and VK IDs:\r\nvisit the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/d\/network\/\"><strong>social connections cluster page<\/strong><\/a> custom-built for InformNapalm readers. You can enter the last name of a serviceman in the search field on the left, and see who he is connected to.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe information from secondment orders of Buynaksk tankmen to the borderline area with Ukraine in 2014, not only confirmed the available information but also helped locate other military personnel awarded for taking part in the war against Ukraine:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><strong>Aleksandr Vitalievich Vasilyev<\/strong>,\u00a0the commander of the 1st armored platoon of the 2nd armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Order of Courage.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Maksim Vitalievich Brodnikov<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 1st armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Suvorov Medal.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chubarev<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 2nd armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Suvorov Medal.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Denis Mikhailovich Ogorelkov<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 3rd armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal of Suvorov and Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Maksim Vitalievich Brodnikov<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 2nd armored platoon of the 3rd armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Gennadiy Vladimirovich Segeda<\/strong>, the senior tank driver of the command section of the signal platoon of the armored battalion, was also awarded some medals.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Prokopiy Prokopyevich Kobiakov<\/strong>, the tank driver of the 3rd armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal of Suvorov.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Dmitriy Andreyevich Zaytsev<\/strong>, the tank commander of the 1st armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Sergey Valeryevich Tizhankin<\/strong>, the senior tank driver of the 2nd armored platoon of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion, was awarded the Medal for Bravery.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Nikolay Nikolayevich Zagumennov<\/strong>, the tank driver of the 1st armored platoon of the 2nd armored company of the armored battalion, was, as reported by the Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/rt-online.ru\/v-kazanskom-kremle-sostoyalsya-torzhestvennyj-priem-po-sluchayu-prazdnovaniya-dnya-zashhitnika-otechestva\/\">media<\/a> awarded the Medal of Suvorov.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MyCollages-1-300x300.png\" width=\"179\" height=\"179\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MyCollages-300x300.png\" width=\"177\" height=\"177\" \/>\r\n\r\nThis table also contains details of <strong>Vitaliy Veniaminovich Marakasov<\/strong>, a Russian military serviceman who loved to make selfies in Donbas. His photos of the Russian incursion into Luhansk Oblast on T-90A tanks were featured in a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-t-90-tanks-136th-motorized-rifle-brigade-luhansk-region\/\">InformNapalm\u2019s OSINT investigations<\/a> and were used in <a href=\"https:\/\/prometheus.ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Donbas_v_Ogni_ENG_web_1-4.pdf\">\u00a0Donbas in Flames<\/a>guidebook. We could establish the exact position of Marakasov through the information from the retrieved secondment orders. He is a grenade launcher operator of the 3rd section of the 3rd platoon of the 7th company of the 3rd mechanized infantry battalion of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army.\r\nIt is likely that the above table features the people who posted the video of the T-90A incursion near Novosvetlovka of Luhansk Oblast (the video was found on social media by investigative blogger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/askai707\/status\/800703746200190976\">Askai)<\/a>.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/RbZQ71614lY\r\n\r\nThus, we have gathered information about 73 military men of the armored battalion of military unit # 63354 from Buynaksk, including 26 \u201cawardees\u201d.\r\n<h2>Body bags from Donbas<\/h2>\r\nIt can be seen from the orders stored by Doroshenko that some people have not come back alive from assignments to the Southern Group of Forces. InformNapalm mentioned in its previous <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/devils-dozen-buynaksk-awarded-war-donbas\/\">publication<\/a> that the only known casualty was <strong>Aleksandr Igorevich Vedernikov<\/strong>, commander of the command tank of the 1st armored company of the armored battalion (EX-763258, DOB June 30, 1993). He was also mentioned in Order #\u00a0190 of August 15, 2014, dispatching a group of military personnel to Popovka near the Ukrainian border on August 17, 2014.\r\nOn the basis of another order of the commander of military unit 63354 under <strong>#\u00a0235 of October 1, 2014,<\/strong> <strong>Aleksandr Vedernikov<\/strong> and another serviceman <strong>Oleg Viktorovich Kuznetsov<\/strong> (X-261642), effective from September 2, 2014, were <strong>delisted from the muster roll of military unit # 63354 in connection with their death.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/235-prikaz-ot-01.10.14g.doc\">Download Order # 235 dated October 1, 2014<\/a>\r\n<h3><strong>\u00a0Price of Silence for Relatives<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vedernikov-225x300.jpg\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kuznecov-225x300.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe InformNapalm team located social media accounts of Oleg Kuznetsov\u2019s wife Nina, his mother-in-law, Tatyana Simakina, and his mother, Inessa Kuznetsova. Oleg\u2019s parents live in the Girey township of Krasnodar Oblast in 241 Lenina str. Contact phone number of his father Viktor is 89604843026. His wife Nina lives in the city of Kropotkin. Oleg Kuznetsov\u2019s relatives, as well as the mother of Vedernikov, the second killed serviceman, have not mentioned his death in their social media accounts at all. Only some posts by his mother indirectly confirm that she had lost a family member. According to Order No.\u00a0235, the price of silence includes:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>for captain Oleg Kuznetsov\u2019s wife\u2014the annual subsistence benefit for the year 2014 in the amount of one monthly salary (Ed: bare salary without bonuses, position increments and benefits normally makes less than a half of serviceman's total pay); the August 2014 salary in full; the August 2014 monthly bonus for the proper and efficient performance of service duties in full;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>a once-off benefit to be split equally among his family members paid on the basis of Order No.\u00a01100 of May 6, 2012, of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to captain Kuznetsov\u2019s wife, father, and mother in connection with his death.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Video.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nAccording to the order, the same payments were made to Vedernikov\u2019s mother, Laysan Vedernikova. Aleksandr Vedernikov, a conscript soldier, was appointed as a tank commander on August 28, 2014. The amount of pay in his military specialization grade amounted to <strong>mere RUB\u00a017,000 (about $ 300).\u00a0<\/strong>That is the price Russian soldiers are doled out to carry out criminal orders, and ultimately to die for.\r\n\r\nSome paragraphs from Doroshenko\u2019s documents describe the status of the infosecurity and the protection of classified documents in his military unit:<em>\u00a0\u201cThe status of the secrecy procedures in the course of the management of the information classified as state secrets and the protection of the computer information against unauthorized access can be deemed satisfactory, subject to corrective action on the detected violations and deficiencies\u201d.<\/em><em>\r\n<\/em>Well, we beg to differ.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Thus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/?s=136+%D0%9E%D0%9C%D0%A1%D0%91%D1%80\">the open-source evidence<\/a> of the involvement of Russia\u2019s 136th MRB from Buynaksk in the combat action in Ukraine has been corroborated by documents. These materials will be used as evidence by the future international and, we believe, domestic Russian courts when even stones on graves of meaninglessly deceased Russian military servicemen would testify.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>We are providing a link to the file archive of captain Doroshenko\u2019s mailbox below. It contains a lot of information on the 136th MRB, including the muster roll of the reconnaissance battalion. We have excluded the orders, which are still analyzed by InformNapalm\u2019s volunteers and will be used in our future publications (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Qe1Cuj\">this is a link to the archive file without the orders<\/a>).<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-8997 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>This publication was prepared by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\">Victory Krm<\/a> <em>and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a> <em>specially for\u00a0InformNapalm web site<\/em>. <em>Translated by Oleksandr Ivanov, edited by Artem Velichko.\u00a0<\/em><em>An active link to the authors and<\/em> <em>our project is obligatory for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>\r\n<\/em><em>(Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014\u00a0<\/em><em>CC BY 4.0\u00a0<\/em><em>) For notifications about InformNapalm investigations<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informnapalm24\/\">follow the community page on Facebook<\/a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10919"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10947,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions\/10947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}