{"id":14547,"date":"2019-04-03T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=14547"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:51:58","slug":"service-record-of-contract-soldier-from-the-7th-military-base-crimea-donbas-abkhazia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/service-record-of-contract-soldier-from-the-7th-military-base-crimea-donbas-abkhazia\/","title":{"rendered":"Service record of contract soldier from the 7th military base: Crimea, Donbas, Abkhazia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, much has been written about the Russians serving at the 7th Military Base of the Russian Army deployed by the occupiers in Abkhazia (military unit 09332, Gudauta town, occupied Abkhazia Georgia). InformNapalm archives contain more than 30 publications that one way or another are connected to the 7th Military Base. The most explosive and interesting investigations were focused on the participation of tactical groups, recon units, and the artillery of this military unit in the so-called Rostov-Ukrainian assignments in the summer and fall of 2014. We also published data about the massive outflow of contract soldiers and awards of the occupants form Gudauta based on the results of their Ukrainian and Syrian assignments.<\/p>\n

Both at the 7th Military Base and elsewhere we have repeatedly observed hybrid Russian military, with previously contract soldiers suddenly becoming \u201cNovorossia\u201d militants, as well as former \u201cL\/DPR militants\u201d changing the gangster Gorka camo suits for regular Russian military uniforms with the regalia of the Russian Armed Forces and the chevrons of specific military units of the Russian Army.<\/p>\n

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    SEE ALSO: Russian army\u2019s 7th Military Base in InformNapalm\u2019s materials<\/i><\/i><\/h3>\n
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    Combat Crews of 2S3 \u201cAkatsiya\u201d of the 7th Military Base Identified along the Border with Ukraine<\/a><\/h2>\n

    Medical Detachment of the 7th Military Base from Abkhazia Identified near the Border with Ukraine<\/a><\/h2>\n

    More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine<\/a><\/h2>\n

    \u2018Cinderellas\u2019 with Self-propelled Artillery Systems or How Russian Contract Servicemen are Posing as \u2018Self-defence\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n

    The \u0421over Story of the \u2018Former\u2019 Soldier of the 7th Russian Base Does not Hold Water<\/a><\/h2>\n

    \u2018Bored silly\u2019: the Russian Invaders\u2019 Games in Donbas<\/a><\/h1>\n

    Russia is building up its military presence in Georgia. New S-300 in occupied Abkhazia<\/a><\/h2>\n

    Russia uses soldiers of the 7th Military Base for aggression against Ukraine<\/a><\/h2>\n

    Russian Occupation Army\u2019s 7th Military Base as Vanguard of Russian Propaganda<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

    The soldier we are making famous this time is almost the same as his colleagues, other \u201chybrid warriors\u201d, except, unlike the others, he didn\u2019t just take part in the hostilities in the Donbas, but was also in the vanguard of the Russian invasion to Crimea in spring 2014.<\/p>\n

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    Maxim Pashchenko<\/p>\n

    According to the personal data records<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    Born on September 15, 1986 in Alakurtti village, Kandalakshsky district, Murmansk Oblast.<\/p>\n

    Lives in Ryazan.<\/p>\n

    Has relatives in Kurskaya settlement, Stavropol Krai.<\/p>\n

    Since 2004, he has served in military unit 09332. Apparently, after completing conscript service, he immediately signed the contract.<\/p>\n

    It appears that he serves in the reconnaissance company of the 7th Military Base (Until 2009, the 7th Military Base, military unit 09332, was the 131st Maykop Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade<\/a>. It was defeated<\/a> by patriots of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on December 31, 1994). For a number of years, units of the Maykop brigade were on duty as a part of the so-called Collective Peacekeeping Forces in Abkhazia. After the Russian aggression against Georgia in August 2008, the 131st Maykop Motorized Rifle Brigade was reorganized into the 7th Military Base and deployed in Abkhazia)<\/p>\n

    Social media accounts: VK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a> archives), OK<\/a> (profile<\/a>, album<\/a>, contacts<\/a>\u00a0 archives)<\/p>\n

    Among the photos found in Maxim Pashchenko\u2019s albums, there are many curious ones – related to his service in Abkhazia, as well as his everyday life as a \u201cNovorossia\u201d militant, uploaded in 2012-2019. Perhaps the most curious pictures are:<\/p>\n

    The picture<\/a>, uploaded on March 31, 2014, taken in Simferopol (Crimea), against the background of the so-called monument \u201cShot in the back\u201d<\/a> (opened in 2007), where Pashchenko poses in Russian military uniform with a chevron that looks similar to the symbols of the IAG \u201cTerskaya Wolf Hundred<\/a>\u201d that served as a cover for the agents of the GRU \/ FSB operating in Crimea in the spring of 2014 as a part of the so-called self-defense of Crimea and later on in the Donbas. Another photo<\/a> is from Chornomors\u2019ke village in Crimea – against the background of the monument to internationalist soldiers \u201cThe pain of Afghanistan is in my soul<\/a>,\u201d uploaded on September 13, 2014, where the soldier poses in shorts.<\/p>\n

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    The picture<\/a>, uploaded on January 13, 2017 (and February 18, 2018 in VK), taken in the Donbas presumably in 2014, where Pashchenko poses in the standard guise of a militant (non-regulation uniform, weapon, white bandage, St. George ribbon), along with another \u201cNovorossia\u201d militant.The same photo can be seen in social network albums of other militants – \u201cTersky Cossack<\/a>\u201d (image<\/a> was uploaded on May 12, 2018), \u201cLech Tersky<\/a>\u201d (image was uploaded on November 26, 2014), another \u201cTersky Cossack<\/a>\u201d (photo<\/a> was uploaded on September 3, 2016).<\/p>\n

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    It is not difficult to identify the Russian contract soldier Maxim Pashchenko in a number of group pictures of Novorossia militants from 2014, including pictures from albums of the aforementioned \u201cTerek\u201d gangsters \u2014 Russian secret service agents, who were among the first to be deployed to provoke the conflict in the Donbas.<\/p>\n

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    Also in Pashchenko\u2019s albums there are many photos from the occupied Abkhazia \u2013 the city of Gudauta, the \u201cTsebelda\u201d training area, as well as Kodori Gorge.<\/p>\n

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    Reference data of the 7th Military Base (source – http:\/\/milkavkaz.com\/):<\/h2>\n

    The 7th Military Base, military unit 09332 (Georgia, occupied Abkhazia, Gudauta, belongs to the 49th Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation), began to take shape in 2009, after the Russian invasion to Georgia in 2008. It was organized on the basis of the 131st Maykop Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.<\/em><\/p>\n

    The structure of the occupation force in Abkhazia includes the land component in the form of a reinforced mechanized infantry brigade: 3\u00a0mechanized infantry battalions, a tank battalion, 2 artillery battalions, a rocket artillery battalion, a sniper company, a drone company, a reconnaissance battalion, as well as a number of other separate combat and logistics units.<\/em><\/p>\n

    The personnel of the occupation force consist of both conscripts and contract soldiers.<\/em><\/p>\n

    The main armaments of the Gudauta base include:<\/em><\/p>\n

    approximately 50 pcs. of tanks T-72B3 (replaced T-90s), near 150 pcs of BTR-82 and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers (APC), 36 pcs of 2S3M Akatsiya 152-mm self-propelled howitzers, 18 pcs of BM-21 Grad MLRS, other weaponry and equipment. The main locations where occupants perform their military exercises are Nagvalou coastal training area and Tsebelda mountain training area. The 7th Military Base units, including motorized infantry, scouts and EW draw permanent duty along administrative border in Gali district and Kodori valley.<\/em><\/p>\n

    In addition, the military base includes:<\/em><\/p>\n