{"id":13992,"date":"2018-09-17T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=13992"},"modified":"2018-09-24T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T03:21:25","slug":"permanent-base-of-russian-mercenaries-in-syria-is-discovered-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/permanent-base-of-russian-mercenaries-in-syria-is-discovered-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent base of Russian mercenaries in Syria is discovered (photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian mercenaries from Wagner private military company are based on the outskirts of Hayan Petroleum Company gas processing plant.<\/strong> <strong>This is a conclusion reached by volunteers of InfromNapalm international intelligence community who found new photos of mercenaries and performed geo-positioning of the images.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When the dead can tell more than the living<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On September 5, 2018, the Moldovan news website <a href=\"https:\/\/ava.md\/2018\/09\/05\/eksklyuziv-ava-md-moldavskiy-naemnik-ubit\/\">AVA.MD<\/a> published an article about a Russian mercenary Vladislav Ivanovich Apostol, a call sign Volk, who held a dual Russian and Moldovan citizenship. He was a member of a Russian squad that tried to storm the\u00a0<em>CONOCO<\/em>\u00a0gas processing plant on February 7, 2018 and was killed by precision strikes by the US air force drones.<\/p>\n<p>Attention of the InformNapalm team was drawn to one of Vladislav Apostol\u2019s photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judging by the decorated and watered Christmas tree, we can assume that the photo was taken in early January, about a month before the mercenary\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>In the background, the pipes and reservoirs of an oil and gas plant are visible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0180.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>InformNapalnm volunteers performed geo-positioning and determined <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/#lang=en&amp;lat=29.540228&amp;lon=41.881932&amp;z=17&amp;m=w\">the place<\/a> where the photo was taken: to the north-west from the Hayan Petroleum Company plant. To help with the identification of the place, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I4jEubw4Qb0\">video<\/a> filmed by the Russian propagandists was used.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0173.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, earlier, in the territory of this plant, another group of Wagner mercenaries was registered, including the infamous Russian neo-Nazi mercenary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/?s=%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2\">Alexei Milchakov<\/a>\u00a0who also participated in the war in the Donbass on the side of the Russian troops.\u00a0In addition, in front of the plant main building there is a monument to the mercenaries of Wagner PMC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0176.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0175.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is another piece of puzzle: on July 8, 2018, a Russian Evgeny Shapovalov (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/awFul\">profile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/51wT7\">albums<\/a>) was photographed standing next to a construction truck in the vicinity of the same plant. He posted the photo (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/sd9c2\">archive<\/a>) in his album called \u201cWork\u201d. The photo\u2019s coordinates are: <em>34.60782200, 37.89565300<\/em>.\u00a0It\u2019s unclear what exactly the Wagner team builds at their base using construction cranes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0181.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another Yevgeny Shapovalov\u2019s photo indicates that he and his colleagues were transported to Syria on boad of an\u00a0IL-76\u00a0aircraft of the Russian military transport aviation. Photo was taken in the cargo area (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/V64wB\">archive<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pZNcDNsWlz4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using the newly found photographs, we have discovered a group of mercenaries from Wagner PMC in the vicinity of the gas processing plant of Hayan Petroleum Company who use the territory of the plant as its permanent base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a> specially for InformNapalm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Translated by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Distribution and reprint with reference to the source is welcome!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0CC BY 4.0.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian mercenaries from Wagner private military company are based on the outskirts of Hayan Petroleum Company gas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13993,"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":[528,531,532],"tags":[513,4215],"class_list":["post-13992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-syria","category-world","tag-syria","tag-wagner-pmc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Permanent base of Russian mercenaries in Syria is discovered (photo) - InformNapalm.org (English)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russian mercenaries from Wagner private military company are based on the outskirts of Hayan Petroleum Company gas processing plant. 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He was a member of a Russian squad that tried to storm the\u00a0<em>CONOCO<\/em>\u00a0gas processing plant on February 7, 2018 and was killed by precision strikes by the US air force drones.\r\n\r\nAttention of the InformNapalm team was drawn to one of Vladislav Apostol\u2019s photos.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB12.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nJudging by the decorated and watered Christmas tree, we can assume that the photo was taken in early January, about a month before the mercenary\u2019s death.\r\n\r\nIn the background, the pipes and reservoirs of an oil and gas plant are visible.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0180.png\" \/>\r\n\r\nInformNapalnm volunteers performed geo-positioning and determined <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/#lang=en&amp;lat=29.540228&amp;lon=41.881932&amp;z=17&amp;m=w\">the place<\/a> where the photo was taken: to the north-west from the Hayan Petroleum Company plant. To help with the identification of the place, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I4jEubw4Qb0\">video<\/a> filmed by the Russian propagandists was used.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0173.png\" \/>\r\n\r\nInterestingly, earlier, in the territory of this plant, another group of Wagner mercenaries was registered, including the infamous Russian neo-Nazi mercenary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/?s=%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2\">Alexei Milchakov<\/a>\u00a0who also participated in the war in the Donbass on the side of the Russian troops.\u00a0In addition, in front of the plant main building there is a monument to the mercenaries of Wagner PMC.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0176.png\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0175.png\" \/>\r\n\r\nThere is another piece of puzzle: on July 8, 2018, a Russian Evgeny Shapovalov (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/awFul\">profile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/51wT7\">albums<\/a>) was photographed standing next to a construction truck in the vicinity of the same plant. He posted the photo (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/sd9c2\">archive<\/a>) in his album called \u201cWork\u201d. The photo\u2019s coordinates are: <em>34.60782200, 37.89565300<\/em>.\u00a0It\u2019s unclear what exactly the Wagner team builds at their base using construction cranes.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Selection_0181.png\" \/>\r\n\r\nAnother Yevgeny Shapovalov\u2019s photo indicates that he and his colleagues were transported to Syria on boad of an\u00a0IL-76\u00a0aircraft of the Russian military transport aviation. Photo was taken in the cargo area (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/V64wB\">archive<\/a>).\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pZNcDNsWlz4.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nUsing the newly found photographs, we have discovered a group of mercenaries from Wagner PMC in the vicinity of the gas processing plant of Hayan Petroleum Company who use the territory of the plant as its permanent base.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a> specially for InformNapalm.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Translated by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Distribution and reprint with reference to the source is welcome!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0CC BY 4.0.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/header2.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992","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=13992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13995,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions\/13995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}