{"id":15414,"date":"2020-05-15T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=15414"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:14:44","slug":"new-evidence-of-ru-41st-br-in-aggression-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/new-evidence-of-ru-41st-br-in-aggression-against-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"New evidence of Russian 41st Brigade of Missile Boats participating in aggression against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its new OSINT investigation identifying Russian troops directly involved in the aggression against Ukraine in Crimea, InformNapalm international intelligence community has gathered new evidence against some naval sailors of the 41st Brigade of Missile Boats of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. With regard to the results of this investigation, we are calling on the competent authorities of Ukraine with a request to supplement their data on Russian military aggression in Crimea and to carry out appropriate legal proceedings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Investigating social media pages of Russian sailors<\/h2>\n

While researching open sources of information, we discovered on VK social network a page of Russian sailor Oleg Nikolayevich Yermakov<\/strong>, born in 1992.<\/p>\n

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He posted a photo of a medal for the occupation of Crimea and an award certificate to it.<\/p>\n

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The certificate indicates the number of the military unit in which Yermakov served when Russia launched its armed aggression against Ukraine in February 2014. Military unit 72165 is 41st Brigade of Missile Boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, stationed in Sevastopol city, temporarily occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n

The Brigade consists of two squadrons:\u00a0166th Novorossiysk Guided Missile Corvette Squadron (166th GMCS) and 295th Sulino Missile Boat Squadron (295th MBS)<\/em>. The ships of both squadrons participated in the aggression against Ukraine and featured in OSINT investigations<\/a> of InformNapalm.<\/p>\n

On the following photo from Yermakov\u2019s album<\/a> taken on board of a boat, at a closer look, we can see an inscription on the lifebuoy which reads “\u0420\u041a\u0410 953”.<\/p>\n

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“\u0420\u041a\u0410” is the Russian abbreviation for “\u0440\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440”, a missile boat.\u00a0The numeral “953<\/a>” is the hull number of the R-239 missile boat (12411 Molniya project, part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet since 1992, the boat\u2019s permanent base is in temporarily occupied Sevastopol, Quarantine Bay). This boat is part of the<\/a> 295th MBS of the 41st Brigade of Missile Boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. In 2018, the boat was given the name Naberezhnye Chelny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We invite interested readers to compare the characteristic elements of the boat on the photo from Yermakov\u2019s album and on other P-239 photos<\/a> found online.<\/p>\n

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