{"id":17160,"date":"2021-10-08T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2021-10-08T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:46:20","slug":"identified-5-more-servicemen-of-the-18th-mrb-who-participated-in-the-aggression-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/identified-5-more-servicemen-of-the-18th-mrb-who-participated-in-the-aggression-against-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Identified: 5 more servicemen of the 18th MRB who participated in the aggression against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

InformNapalm international intelligence community continues identifying regular Russian servicemen who took part in the hybrid aggression against Ukraine. As of July 2021, InformNapalm has collected evidence against over<\/strong> 2,630 Russian soldiers and officers<\/strong><\/a> in its OSINT investigations database. Another investigation by the Georgian editorial team of InformNapalm adds new facts to these data.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On August 12, 2014, a convoy of Russian troops of 1,200 people, among whom servicemen from the 18th Motorized Rifle Brigade (MRB), entered Ukraine and in the afternoon of August 13 stopped in the town of Snizhne, Donetsk Oblast. On the same day, Ukrainian artillery struck the convoy. Of the 1200 people, the Russians lost 120 killed and 450 wounded (<\/em>Novaya Gazeta 09\/01\/2014<\/a>).\u00a0<\/em>Among those killed in action, were previously identified contract servicemen of the 18th MRB<\/em> from Chechnya \u2013 Anton Tumanov<\/strong> and Robert Artyunyan (Arutyunyan).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of the new OSINT investigation is to identify Russian servicemen of the 18th MRB, who for almost 7 years could manage to hide their involvement in the “Ukrainian deployment”. Based on the results of this investigation, we could identify several military men of the Russian Army, including an officer, commander of the engineer platoon of the 1st Motorized Rifle Battalion, Alexander Smirnov.\u00a0<\/strong>A group photograph of August 2014, in which 8 Russian servicemen with white identification armbands are posing against a BTR-82, helped to identify the next participants in the aggression against Ukraine. The original source of the photo<\/a> was the social media page of the Russian contract soldier, a participant in those events, which was subsequently actively spread in the media and on social networks.<\/p>\n

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  1. Aleksandr Smirnov<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0Born 12\/26\/1984, in Kovernino village, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.<\/p>\n

    Graduated from Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Command School in the town of Kstovo in 2007.<\/p>\n

    Career:<\/p>\n