{"id":11148,"date":"2017-05-30T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2017-05-30T19:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:25:37","slug":"captured-humvees-and-russian-command-vehicle-in-syria-possible-connection-of-isis-and-russian-special-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/captured-humvees-and-russian-command-vehicle-in-syria-possible-connection-of-isis-and-russian-special-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Captured Humvees and Russian command vehicle in Syria: Possible connection of ISIS and Russian special forces?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russian Federation manages the terrorist groups of the DPR and LPR in the east of Ukraine – this thesis is widely accepted now by everybody but Russian propaganda and a few marginal admirers of Russia from other countries of the world.<\/em><\/strong> And if everything is very clear and almost transparent in the case of the DPR and LPR, the cooperation of Russian special services with the ISIS terrorist organization has not been proven to date, although many experts have repeatedly drawn attention to the signs of such cooperation.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0It is in the interest of Russia to keep the “scarecrow” in the Middle East to preserve the image of “an ally of the world community in the fight against international terrorism.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no direct proof of cooperation of ISIS and the Russian government in open sources so far.\u00a0There are videos of terrorists demonstrating execution of allegedly Russian intelligence and FSB officers, but they could have been intended to remove any suspicions from the Kremlin. Aide to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov has not yet been seen on joint photos with the ISIS leaders, unlike his photos from meetings of the Union of Donbas Volunteers<\/a>. And Russian propagandists do not forget to mention that ISIS is banned in Russia.\u00a0But some facts indicate that Russian militants in the Donbas and the terrorists of ISIS can have the same assistants and curators.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2015, InformNapalm volunteers revealed that some Russian mercenaries who were then in Syria<\/a>, back 2014 fought in the Donbas. New evidence of Syrian deployments of the defenders of the “Russian world” were found.\u00a0During monitoring of social media, photos of Russian mercenaries in Syria were found; the photos were taken in front of the Humvee military trucks that were captured by ISIS from the Iraqi army in 2014.<\/p>\n

Tamerlan Ruslanovich Gogaev, <\/strong>possibly a professional soldier of the Russian Armed Forces or a mercenary from one of the Russian PMCs affiliated with Russian special services, attracted attention of InformNapalm investigators. His call sign is “Ardon”.\u00a0He was born in the town of Ardon in North Ossetia on 07\/07\/1987.<\/p>\n

He is a veteran of the Russian invasion of Georgia\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0Subsequently,\u00a0from 2011 to February 2014, he was a contract\u00a0<\/strong>serviceman<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of one of the special forces units of the Russian Internal Troops in the North Caucasus.<\/strong>\u00a0Since August 2014, he was in the ranks of the militants of the Russian terrorist group “Sut Vremeny\u201d (The Essence of Time), possibly as a curator, whose\u00a0members<\/a>\u00a0joined the Vostok terrorist battalion which fights in the Donbas as part of the DPR.<\/p>\n

His accounts in social media:\u00a0VK1<\/a>\u00a0(archives of\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0album<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0friends<\/a>\u00a0), the\u00a0account is abandoned, was active in May – September 2016<\/em>\u00a0;\u00a0VK2<\/a>\u00a0(archive of\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0album<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0friends<\/a>), the\u00a0account has been active since December 2016<\/em>\u00a0;\u00a0OK<\/a>\u00a0(archives of\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0album<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0friends<\/a>\u00a0), the\u00a0account was active from 2011 to February 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is interesting that Ardon and a number of his colleagues from the Vostok Battalion were listed as killed (\u201cthe 200th\u201d) in the disinformation\u00a0<\/em>list<\/em><\/a>\u00a0of the Russian so-called human rights activist Elena Vasilieva.\u00a0The entry notes:\u00a0“No. 134.\u00a0Call sign “Ardon”, Vostok battalion, killed, confirmed by Myrotvorets, full name is not known “.<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>There is a <\/em>double error in the Russian “human rights defender’s” statement: Ardon <\/em>is not<\/em> dead,<\/em> and the <\/em>Myrotvorets Center<\/em><\/a> has never confirmed his death<\/em> but wrote a request to identify some militants, including Ardon. Perhaps, the Vasilieva\u2019s list was created to conceal Russian agents whose mission in the Donbas was completed and it was planned that they would go Syria.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ardon\u2019s photo albums in social media, in which, in 2016, the images of the DPR fighters in eastern Ukraine alternated with the photographs of the Russian military personnel in the North Caucasus (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>), suggest that in 2014 he did not interrupt his military career. Probably, he was discharged from the Russian Armed Forces and joined one of the private military companies (PMC) under the cover of which Russian special services conduct military operations in the Donbas and Syria.<\/p>\n

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If the Ardon\u2019s photos from the Donbas and the Caucasus look quite ordinary, a couple of pictures (4<\/a> and 5<\/a>) from Syria, uploaded to his OK on June 3, 2016, drew our attention.\u00a0Ardon posted the same photographs on his VK\u00a0account on June 27<\/a>\u00a0and September 11<\/a>, 2016. The pictures of armed people against the background of a column of five army Hummers of sand color and a Russian military command vehicle on the KamAZ chassis look very impressive. Though the poor quality of the photos and the hidden faces of the posing have not yet allowed to identify them, we can state that:
\n1. The pictures were taken in Syria.<\/strong>
\n2. On the photos, the Russians are posing in full combat gear, dressed in the military Gorka uniform.<\/strong>\u00a0The same type of uniforms is used by ISIS fighters.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: when <\/em>we <\/em>check<\/em>ed the<\/em> Syrian photos <\/em>through<\/em> images.google, <\/em>we found out<\/em> that the picture of <\/em>the <\/em>Russians <\/em>in front of<\/em> the<\/em> convoys of<\/em> Hummer<\/em>s<\/em> was<\/em> first posted on the page of the user \u00a0<\/em>etoonda<\/em><\/a> on LiveJournal<\/em> in January 2016<\/em>. The search for the second photo with Hummers did not produce any results which may indicate that the image belongs to Ardon personally.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The posing in front of Hummers armed people do not look like ordinary Russian military whom we previously identified in Syria.\u00a0Most likely, these are special forces or PMCs, perhaps two in one – Russian special forces operating in Syria under the guise of a private military company.\u00a0It is hard to say why Ardon posted these photos in his photo albums.\u00a0If he and his military comrades had nothing to do with a Syrian deployment, what’s the point of publishing such pictures?\u00a0In order to supplement his album unrelated thematic photos, one can find better images.<\/p>\n

Anyway, those are Russian in the photos with Humvees in Syria.\u00a0As is known, these American vehicles are not in service with the Russian Armed Forces.\u00a0Hypothetically, these Hummers could have been\u00a0captured by the Russians from the Ukrainian Armed Forces<\/a>\u00a0in the Donbas and then shipped to Syria for provocation purposes. Though, it seems unlikely.<\/p>\n

According\u00a0to several sources<\/a>, more than 2 thousand Hummers were transferred by the US military to the Iraq authorities and then captured by ISIS militants in 2014.\u00a0Some of those captured Hummers\u00a0were transferred by ISIS to Syria<\/a> for their needs. And after a while the Russians are posing in Syria in front of several similar vehicles.\u00a0But if the Russian military would have seized these Hummers from ISIS, Russian propaganda would not fail to take advantage of this, having trumpeted about the “victory” for the whole world. However, nothing like this happened. The described photo has got only on several blogs without any description.\u00a0The question arises: why?\u00a0Is it because the Russian special forces (or PMCs) act in coordination with the ISIS militants?<\/p>\n

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Studying social media accounts of other Russian militants who fought in the Donbas, we often see photographs of Syria among their photos.\u00a0Here, for example,\u00a0Vladimir Anatolyevich Savelyev<\/a>, date of birth: December 01,1971, originally from the city of\u00a0Shakhty, 43zh\u00a0Ryleeva Street , Ap.12.<\/p>\n

He is a militant from the 1st Slavic Brigade, the Dixon Battalion.<\/p>\n

Until recently, his account also contained a series of photos from the Middle East.\u00a0Saveliev himself also liked to pose in the Gorka uniform.<\/p>\n

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This publication does not provide direct evidence, it only raises a number of questions about the possible links of Russian special services and the coordination of their actions with the ISIS terrorist organization. The traces of this cooperation are much more difficult to detect than the connection between the DPR and LPR with the Kremlin.\u00a0But bloggers and investigators are increasingly paying attention to the indirect signs of this. The truth is somewhere near\u2026<\/p>\n

Prepared by InformNapalm on the basis of its own OSINT investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Authors: <\/em>Irakli Komaxidze<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Al<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Gri<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Edited by\u00a0<\/em>Roman Burko<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/em><\/p>\n

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We call on our readers to actively share our publications on social networks. Broad public awareness of these investigations is a major factor in the information and actual warfare.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aide to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov has not yet been seen on joint photos with the ISIS leaders, unlike his photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/hackers-show-truth-behind-ex-russian-duma-deputy-voronenkov-s-statements-surkov-s-innocence-photos-audio\/\">meetings of the Union of Donbas Volunteers<\/a>. And Russian propagandists do not forget to mention that ISIS is banned in Russia.\u00a0But some facts indicate that Russian militants in the Donbas and the terrorists of ISIS can have the same assistants and curators.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn 2015, InformNapalm volunteers revealed that some <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec08-russia-terrorism\/\">Russian mercenaries who were then in Syria<\/a>, back 2014 fought in the Donbas. New evidence of Syrian deployments of the defenders of the \"Russian world\" were found.\u00a0During monitoring of social media, photos of Russian mercenaries in Syria were found; the photos were taken in front of the Humvee military trucks that were captured by ISIS from the Iraqi army in 2014.\r\n\r\n<strong><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/dE-275x300.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"270\" \/>Tamerlan Ruslanovich Gogaev, <\/strong>possibly a professional soldier of the Russian Armed Forces or a mercenary from one of the Russian PMCs affiliated with Russian special services, attracted attention of InformNapalm investigators. His call sign is \"Ardon\".\u00a0He was born in the town of Ardon in North Ossetia on 07\/07\/1987.\r\n\r\nHe is a veteran of the Russian invasion of Georgia\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0Subsequently,\u00a0<strong>from 2011 to February 2014, he was a contract\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/VM0UW\"><strong>serviceman<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0of one of the special forces units of the Russian Internal Troops in the North Caucasus.<\/strong>\u00a0Since August 2014, he was in the ranks of the militants of the Russian terrorist group \"Sut Vremeny\u201d (The Essence of Time), possibly as a curator, whose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ex9Zt\">members<\/a>\u00a0joined the Vostok terrorist battalion which fights in the Donbas as part of the DPR.\r\n\r\nHis accounts in social media:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id364587215\">VK1<\/a>\u00a0(archives of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/jaVph\">profile<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/hPxke\">album<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ZuPZJ\">friends<\/a>\u00a0), the\u00a0account<em> is abandoned, was active in May - September 2016<\/em>\u00a0;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id401313971\">VK2<\/a>\u00a0(archive of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/IM139\">profile<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/EjEW1\">album<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/MmdYd\">friends<\/a>), the\u00a0account<em> has been active since December 2016<\/em>\u00a0;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ok.ru\/profile\/515550441940\">OK<\/a>\u00a0(archives of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1PTRT\">profile<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/llJ0I\">album<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WcNRG\">friends<\/a>\u00a0), the\u00a0account<em> was active from 2011 to February 2017.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7-1024x649.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cxinvali-08-300x237.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"139\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vv-13-300x241.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"140\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/djnbass-14-300x243.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"143\" \/>\r\n<blockquote><em>It is interesting that Ardon and a number of his colleagues from the Vostok Battalion were listed as killed (\u201cthe 200th\u201d) in the disinformation\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1UyE7\"><em>list<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0of the Russian so-called human rights activist Elena Vasilieva.\u00a0The entry notes:\u00a0\"No. 134.\u00a0Call sign \"Ardon\", Vostok battalion, killed, confirmed by Myrotvorets, full name is not known \".<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>There is a <\/em><em>double error in the Russian \"human rights defender's\" statement: Ardon <\/em><em>is not<\/em><em> dead,<\/em><em> and the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/psb-news.org\/banda-vostok\/\"><em>Myrotvorets Center<\/em><\/a><em> has never confirmed his death<\/em> <em>but wrote a request to identify some militants, including Ardon. Perhaps, the Vasilieva\u2019s list was created to conceal Russian agents whose mission in the Donbas was completed and it was planned that they would go Syria.<\/em><\/blockquote>\r\nArdon\u2019s photo albums in social media, in which, in 2016, the images of the DPR fighters in eastern Ukraine alternated with the photographs of the Russian military personnel in the North Caucasus (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/2Ac5U\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/21pXT\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/QWGHy\">3<\/a>), suggest that in 2014 he did not interrupt his military career. Probably, he was discharged from the Russian Armed Forces and joined one of the private military companies (PMC) under the cover of which Russian special services conduct military operations in the Donbas and Syria.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sk-prival-300x233.jpg\" width=\"154\" height=\"122\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sk-tigr-300x190.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"120\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/donbas-300x183.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"116\" \/>\r\n\r\nIf the Ardon\u2019s photos from the Donbas and the Caucasus look quite ordinary, a couple of pictures (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Z1dDJ\">4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/mXLSZ\">5<\/a>) from Syria, uploaded to his OK on June 3, 2016, drew our attention.\u00a0Ardon posted the same photographs on his VK\u00a0account on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/A0SVB\">June 27<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/bpjZl\">September 11<\/a>, 2016. The pictures of armed people against the background of a column of five army Hummers of sand color and a Russian military command vehicle on the KamAZ chassis look very impressive. Though the poor quality of the photos and the hidden faces of the posing have not yet allowed to identify them, we can state that:\r\n<strong>1. The pictures were taken in Syria.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>2. On the photos, the Russians are posing in full combat gear, dressed in the military Gorka uniform.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>The same type of uniforms is used by ISIS fighters.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ham-1-1024x718.jpg\" \/><\/strong>\r\n<blockquote><em>Note: when <\/em><em>we <\/em><em>check<\/em><em>ed the<\/em><em> Syrian photos <\/em><em>through<\/em><em> images.google, <\/em><em>we found out<\/em><em> that the picture of <\/em><em>the <\/em><em>Russians <\/em><em>in front of<\/em><em> the<\/em><em> convoys of<\/em><em> Hummer<\/em><em>s<\/em><em> was<\/em><em> first posted on the page of the user \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/X8YJy\"><em>etoonda<\/em><\/a><em> on LiveJournal<\/em><em> in January 2016<\/em><em>. The search for the second photo with Hummers did not produce any results which may indicate that the image belongs to Ardon personally.<\/em><\/blockquote>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ham-2.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe posing in front of Hummers armed people do not look like ordinary Russian military whom we previously identified in Syria.\u00a0Most likely, these are special forces or PMCs, perhaps two in one - Russian special forces operating in Syria under the guise of a private military company.\u00a0It is hard to say why Ardon posted these photos in his photo albums.\u00a0If he and his military comrades had nothing to do with a Syrian deployment, what's the point of publishing such pictures?\u00a0In order to supplement his album unrelated thematic photos, one can find better images.\r\n\r\nAnyway, those are Russian in the photos with Humvees in Syria.\u00a0As is known, these American vehicles are not in service with the Russian Armed Forces.\u00a0Hypothetically, these Hummers could have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-adventures-of-the-american-humvee-all-terrain-vehicle-in-ukraine\/\">captured by the Russians from the Ukrainian Armed Forces<\/a>\u00a0in the Donbas and then shipped to Syria for provocation purposes. Though, it seems unlikely.\r\n\r\nAccording\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/isis-has-1b-worth-us-humvee-armored-vehicles-one-was-used-mondays-suicide-bombing-1946521\">to several sources<\/a>, more than 2 thousand Hummers were transferred by the US military to the Iraq authorities and then captured by ISIS militants in 2014.\u00a0Some of those captured Hummers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/erbS9\">were transferred by ISIS to Syria<\/a> for their needs. And after a while the Russians are posing in Syria in front of several similar vehicles.\u00a0But if the Russian military would have seized these Hummers from ISIS, Russian propaganda would not fail to take advantage of this, having trumpeted about the \"victory\" for the whole world. However, nothing like this happened. The described photo has got only on several blogs without any description.\u00a0The question arises: why?\u00a0Is it because the Russian special forces (or PMCs) act in coordination with the ISIS militants?\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/h-Sy.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ha-Ir-300x133.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"138\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ha-Ir-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"138\" \/>\r\n\r\nStudying social media accounts of other Russian militants who fought in the Donbas, we often see photographs of Syria among their photos.\u00a0<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sav-277x300.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"241\" \/>Here, for example,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/savelev-vladimir-anatolevich\/\">Vladimir Anatolyevich Savelyev<\/a>, date of birth: December 01,1971, originally from the city of\u00a0Shakhty, 43zh\u00a0Ryleeva Street , Ap.12.\r\n\r\nHe is a militant from the 1st Slavic Brigade, the Dixon Battalion.\r\n\r\nUntil recently, his account also contained a series of photos from the Middle East.\u00a0Saveliev himself also liked to pose in the Gorka uniform.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sav-3-300x243.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"184\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sav-4-300x259.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"181\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sav-1-300x219.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"183\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sav-2-300x221.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"188\" \/>\r\n\r\nThis publication does not provide direct evidence, it only raises a number of questions about the possible links of Russian special services and the coordination of their actions with the ISIS terrorist organization. The traces of this cooperation are much more difficult to detect than the connection between the DPR and LPR with the Kremlin.\u00a0But bloggers and investigators are increasingly paying attention to the indirect signs of this. The truth is somewhere near\u2026\r\n\r\n<em>Prepared by InformNapalm on the basis of its own OSINT investigation.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Authors: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\"><strong><em>Irakli Komaxidze<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0and Al<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<strong>Gri<\/strong>.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Edited by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/burkonews\"><strong><em>Roman Burko<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Translated by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/em>\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=\"115\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a>(CC BY) Information specially prepared for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/\"><em>InformNapalm.org<\/em><\/a><em> site, an active link to the authors and our project <strong>is obligatory<\/strong> for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>We call on our readers to actively share our publications on social networks. Broad public awareness of these investigations is a major factor in the information and actual warfare.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","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=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}