{"id":11418,"date":"2017-07-19T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=11418"},"modified":"2017-07-19T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:29:21","slug":"identified-zaza-khasia-member-of-the-putin-martial-arts-club-who-was-previously-spotted-in-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/identified-zaza-khasia-member-of-the-putin-martial-arts-club-who-was-previously-spotted-in-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Identified: Zaza Khasia, member of the Putin Martial Arts Club, who was previously spotted in Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00ab<\/em><\/strong>Bagration<\/em><\/strong><\/a>?! “<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dedicated to the \u2018hero\u2019 of the inglorious war of 2014, Russian citizen of Georgian origin Zaza Khasia, in memory of the 3rd anniversary of his participation in the undeclared war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the OSINT investigations of InformNapalm international intelligence community are based on the primary information provided by our readers – Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarusians, who shared with us interesting materials. This publication is no exception. If it were not for the primary data from our friends, we would not have learned about the new \u2018Bagration\u2019 and pride of Russia who raised arms against the fraternal nation.<\/p>\n

On February 23, 2017, on VK social media website, a Defender of the Fatherland Day greeting was post<\/a>ed<\/u> with hashtags #Georgians<\/a> #February23<\/a> in the Georgian diaspora in Moscow group. Of the six photos of the ‘defenders’, our attention was drawn to a photo of an armed militant in a camouflage uniform and beret, a tactical vest and a machine gun against the backdrop of a T-64 tank.<\/p>\n

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There were several reasons that prompted us to find out more about this photo. First and foremost, the out-of-regulation appearance of the ‘defender’ of the Russian Federation, who looks more like a mercenary-militant of Novorossiya, and, of course, the T-64 tank.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/em><\/strong> Ukrainian T-64 tanks were actively used by Russian-terrorist forces in the Donbas at the initial stage of the conflict. The reason for their use is trivial: to disguise the Russian presence and to make it look like all the equipment transferred from Russia was supposedly captured by ‘rebellious miners’ from the Ukrainian military. Indeed, some of these machines were seized from the Ukrainian Army. However, a large number of T-64 tanks were deployed to the east of Ukraine from Russia (see Fig.\u00a0<\/em>1<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>2<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>3<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>4<\/em><\/strong><\/a>), where there are hundreds of them are in conservation at storage bases.\u00a0After a while, \u2018separatists\u2019 started using T-72 tanks, as well as other Russian weapons and equipment, which were no longer <\/em>possible to disguise<\/em><\/strong><\/a> as captured. <\/em><\/p>\n

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According to military experts advising InformNapalm, the photo above most likely shows a tank captured<\/a> from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as evidenced by the specific pain job. Though, machines of this type were transferred from Russia as well. In any case, the photo of the militant with a T-64 on the background was taken in the Donbas.<\/p>\n

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We found a photograph of this particular tank, against which the militant poses, on the Lost Armour<\/a> website.\u00a0Moreover, there we found a photo of the T-64 with two militants sitting on it, and again one of them is the main figure of our OSINT investigation. The photo was taken in the same place as the first picture that attracted our attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to the <\/em>Lost Armour<\/em><\/a> records, the first time the T-64BV tank was spotted near the village of Metalist in Luhansk Oblast on June 16, 2014. This tank, which was listed with the 128th Mountain Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was captured by the so-called Luhansk Zarya Battalion (IAF Russian-terrorist troops) and later was in service with the ‘army of the South-East’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Enough of the tank and let\u2019s get back to the militant with a nickname zaza___18 <\/strong>(he is on the photo)<\/strong>. Although the posing militant was very cautious in social networks, it was not difficult to identify him. The format of the photo suggests it was posted on Instagram. Using simple combinations, several search engines and analyzing the collected information, it was possible not only to identify the subject of the investigation, but also to collect a lot of information about him.<\/p>\n

Zaza Tarielovich Khasia<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Born on December 18, 1992. A registered place of his residence is in Moscow, according to the entry<\/a> in the Moscow phone database from 2010. Originally from the Samegrelo region in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Originally, the Khassia’s photos with a T-64 tank on the background were posted on Instagram \/ Instami, \u00a0\u00a0uploaded<\/a> on April 10, 2015. See Khassia\u2019s pages on Instagram<\/a> (archive<\/a>) and other social networks tied to it: Instami (archive<\/a>), Imgwonders (archive<\/a>), Imgrum<\/a> (archive<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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On Instagram photographs Khassia often poses in the Hustle restaurant<\/a> (6\/20 Pokrovsky Blvd, Building 1, Moscow, Russia, 109028, tel.\u00a0 7 495 221-22-71), co-owner of which is his old friend Alexander Chekanov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Among other Instagram photos of Khassia\u2019s glamorous life in Moscow are a picture with a \u2018For Special Forces\u2019 hookah<\/a>, made by himself, as well as a photo with his mother, Inga Khassia<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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Zaza Khasia was listed<\/a> as a student of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University, a private educational institution of higher professional education, majoring in systematic theology of the confession, in 2015 under #36 with a minimal number of points 34.<\/p>\n

Looking at the accounts of relatives of our subject, we found another photo of Z. Khassia<\/a> in the photo album of his aunt, uploaded in January 2015. Like the first one, it testifies to his deployment to the Donbas. On the second photo Khassia poses in the same camouflage clothe, with new details – a St. George ribbon arm patch and a cross that is most similar to the so-called Award Cross<\/a> \u201cFor Merit to the Cossacks of Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n

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