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We have identified another war criminals – artillerymen from tactical group of the 74th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (74th SMRB) of Russian Army who fought in the Donbas in 2014. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For three years now, Russia has been fighting undeclared war against Ukraine. During this time InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community has performed enormous work identifying Russian servicemen who executed Kremlin\u2019s illegal orders. We back our investigations by visual proofs. Hundreds of aggressors has been identified already, and this job is in progress. Our goal is to identify each participant of this infamous war because each revealed fact harms reputation of the aggressor country which sooner or later will pay for everything<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new OSINT investigation of InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community is based on the picture that was taken during a \u201cUkrainian mission\u201d of Russian artillerymen from the 74th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (the 74th SMRB, military unit 21005, the town of Yurga, Central Military District). The battalion tactical group from this unit took part in hostilities in the Donbas in summer – autumn 2014. The 74th SMRB has appeared on the InformNapalm\u2019s radar several times before. This unit discredited itself not only during the so-called \u201cRostov-Ukraine missions\u201d, but in the \u201cSyrian missions\u201d as well. Later on, some servicemen from the 74th SMRB had been spotted within \u201cNovorossia\u201d Illegal armed groups.<\/p>\n

In April 2017, InformNapalm published<\/a> an article on identification of the 8 war criminals \u2013 mortar crewmen from a tactical group of the 74th SMRB who fought in the Donbas in 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n

This photograph analyzed in this story was taken from our community\u2019s archives<\/a>. The original<\/a> of this photo, posted in July 2015 on the 74th SMRB serviceman\u2019s page, has already been deleted. In the picture there are four Russian soldiers wearing non-standard uniforms. The landscape and season look similar to the ones from the previous publication.<\/p>\n

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As we mentioned earlier, the picture for this investigation was taken from the account of the Russian soldier, the subject #1.<\/p>\n

#1. Denis (Denchik) Sushkov<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of birth (DOB): November 22, 1995. He is native of the city of Rubtsovsk city or the nearby village of Novoyegoryevskoye in Altai Krai.<\/p>\n

As of summer – autumn 2014, he served in the self-propelled howitzer artillery battalion (armed by 2S3M Akatsiya 152-mm self-propelled howitzers<\/em>) of the 74th SMRB. Allegedly, he became a contract soldier after a conscript service. Although the \u201cUkrainian mission 2014\u201d group picture was deleted from Sushkov\u2019s VK album, his album in OK1 contains a photo series from that period with notable comments.<\/p>\n

Social network accounts: VK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives), OK1<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> sanitized archives), OK2<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives).<\/p>\n

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#2. Aleksandr\u00a0 Nimitkin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of birth (DOB): September 15. He is native of the city of Barnaul, Altai Krai.<\/p>\n

As of summer – autumn 2014, he served in the self-propelled howitzer artillery battalion of the 74th SMRB. There are four Nimitkin\u2019s accounts in social networks. Two of them are active but been sanitized recently; in particular, now they do not have any photos (some of those photos were saved in InformNapalm\u2019s archives though). Also there are 2 inactive accounts with photos and notable comments, which helped to identify him.<\/p>\n

Social media accounts: active VK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives), inactive VK2<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives) and VK3<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives), active OK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives).<\/p>\n

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Besides the abovementioned subjects #1 and #2, we found accounts of the Russians who look very similar to the two remaining servicemen from the photograph. We emphasize that we found no connection of these people to the 74th<\/sup> SMRB besides them looking similar to the servicemen in the picture. <\/em><\/p>\n

– Grigoriy Vasilyev. Native of Irkutsk.<\/em><\/p>\n

Judging by the scanty set of photos in his account, since 2014, he has been a serviceman in the Russian Army. We emphasize that we found no connection of Grigory Vasilyev to the 74th<\/sup> SMRB besides him looking similar to the soldier wearing a camo bandana in the group picture. His social media account: VK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives).<\/em><\/p>\n

– Rustam Mustafin. Native of the town of Davlekanovo, Republic of Bashkortostan. His account in VK has just a couple of photos from 2011 and then a few pictures posted in 2015. It has been inactive since. As is in the previous case, we found no connection of Rustam Mustafin to the 74th<\/sup> SMRB besides him looking similar to the soldier wearing an olive bandana in the group picture. His social media account: VK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are asking our responsive readers, who time after time initiated our OSINT-investigations or brought them up to date later, to help us in identification of the two unrecognized war criminals in the photo. <\/em><\/p>\n

Following previous findings about \u201cUkrainian missions\u201d of the battalion tactical group from the 74th<\/sup> brigade, including InforNapalm publication<\/a> from April with identification of mortar crewmen from this unit, and taking into account landscape particularities seen in this \u201cquartet\u201d picture <\/strong>(hills, similar scenery, and season),<\/strong><\/em> it is reasonable to assume that the picture was taken in late August – early September 2014, in Starobesheve Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, where fierce fighting took pace, such as the battle of Ilovaisk. It is possible that the identified artillerymen from the 74th SMRB were involved in the slaughter of Ukrainian military convoys at the village of Novokaterynivka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 74th SMRB was mentioned in 8 episodes of InformNapalm investigations:<\/p>\n