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Since 2013 he is contract servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces serving at the 7th Base of the Southern Military District in Gudauta, Abkhazia, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10043\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pr-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"pr\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2013-dec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10044\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2013-dec-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2013 dec\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Spring\u2014Summer 2014 Igor Markin was trained in Ashuluk field camp in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia to be then sent to the Ukrainian Donbas. This is proved by a group selfie, dated September 2014, which Markin posted on his VK profile. The photo is hilarious.\u00a0It looks like Russian servicemen never saw the true <em>&#8216;opolchenets&#8217;<\/em> before and so they try to look miserable, like the &#8216;true locals&#8217; should look like according to the imagination of the Russian contract soldiers. In reality, the true Donbas militants are dressed much better because of the regular ammo, food and machinery supplies they get\u00a0via Russian &#8216;humanitarian convoys&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-sekt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10041\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-sekt.jpg\" alt=\"2014 sekt\" width=\"813\" height=\"721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-jul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-jul.jpg\" alt=\"2014 jul\" width=\"693\" height=\"746\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-april.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10045\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-april-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015 april\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-may.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10046\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-may-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015 may\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-fevr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10047\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-fevr-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015 fevr\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently Igor Markin is on vacation, and it looks like he will return to the 7th base afterwards. The field camp of the 7th base is currently located in Rostov Oblast, close to the Ukrainian border, from where the military irruptions, to which Ukrainians had\u00a0already gotten used to, are launched when time becomes though for\u00a0DNR\/LNR mock governments.<\/p>\n<p>Our previous reports on 7th Russian Military Base in occupied Abkhazia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/more-soldiers-from-7th-military-base-received-combat-medals-after-temporary-duties-in-ukraine\/\">More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/medical-detachment-7th-military-base-abkhazia-identified-near-border-ukraine\/\">Medical Detachment of the 7th Military Base from Abkhazia Identified near the Border with Ukraine<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/combat-crews-2s3-akatsiya-7th-military-base-identified-along-border-ukraine\/\">Combat Crews of 2S3 \u201cAkatsiya\u201d of the 7th Military Base Identified along the Border with Ukraine<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/10039-voennosluzhashhye-7-j-v-bazy-vs-rf-pereygryvayut-s-pereodevanyem-v-boevykov-dnr-lnr\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\">Irakli Komaxidze<\/a>, translated by Gennadiy Kornev.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Markin\u00a0(https:\/\/vk.com\/id63058170, archive\u00a0https:\/\/archive.is\/ysFup), is contract servicemen of the 7th Russian Military Base [7-\u044f \u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043c\u0451\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043e\u0440\u0434\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u041a\u0443\u0442\u0443\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4381,"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":[529,4,528,5],"tags":[69,357,167],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donbas","category-mainnews","category-news","category-terrorussians","tag-donbas","tag-russian-aggression","tag-russian-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Cinderellas&#039; with Self-propelled Artillery Systems or How Russian Contract Servicemen are Posing as &#039;Self-defence&#039; - InformNapalm.org (English)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Spring 2014 Igor Markin was trained in Ashuluk field camp in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia to be then sent to the Ukrainian Donbas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/cinderellas-with-self-propelled-artillery-systems-or-how-russian-contract-servicemen-are-posing-as-self-defence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Cinderellas&#039; with Self-propelled Artillery Systems or How Russian Contract Servicemen are Posing as &#039;Self-defence&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Spring\u2014Summer 2014 Igor Markin was trained in Ashuluk field camp in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia to be then sent to the Ukrainian Donbas. 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Since 2013 he is contract servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces serving at the 7th Base of the Southern Military District in Gudauta, Abkhazia, Georgia.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pr.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10043\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pr-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"pr\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2013-dec.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10044\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2013-dec-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2013 dec\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIn Spring\u2014Summer 2014 Igor Markin was trained in Ashuluk field camp in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia to be then sent to the Ukrainian Donbas. This is proved by a group selfie, dated September 2014, which Markin posted on his VK profile. The photo is hilarious.\u00a0It looks like Russian servicemen never saw the true <em>'opolchenets'<\/em> before and so they try to look miserable, like the 'true locals' should look like according to the imagination of the Russian contract soldiers. In reality, the true Donbas militants are dressed much better because of the regular ammo, food and machinery supplies they get\u00a0via Russian 'humanitarian convoys'.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-sekt.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-10041\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-sekt.jpg\" alt=\"2014 sekt\" width=\"813\" height=\"721\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-jul.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-10042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-jul.jpg\" alt=\"2014 jul\" width=\"693\" height=\"746\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-april.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10045\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-april-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015 april\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-may.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10046\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-may-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015 may\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-fevr.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10047\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-fevr-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015 fevr\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nCurrently Igor Markin is on vacation, and it looks like he will return to the 7th base afterwards. The field camp of the 7th base is currently located in Rostov Oblast, close to the Ukrainian border, from where the military irruptions, to which Ukrainians had\u00a0already gotten used to, are launched when time becomes though for\u00a0DNR\/LNR mock governments.\r\n\r\nOur previous reports on 7th Russian Military Base in occupied Abkhazia:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/more-soldiers-from-7th-military-base-received-combat-medals-after-temporary-duties-in-ukraine\/\">More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine<\/a>;<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/medical-detachment-7th-military-base-abkhazia-identified-near-border-ukraine\/\">Medical Detachment of the 7th Military Base from Abkhazia Identified near the Border with Ukraine<\/a>;<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/combat-crews-2s3-akatsiya-7th-military-base-identified-along-border-ukraine\/\">Combat Crews of 2S3 \u201cAkatsiya\u201d of the 7th Military Base Identified along the Border with Ukraine<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/10039-voennosluzhashhye-7-j-v-bazy-vs-rf-pereygryvayut-s-pereodevanyem-v-boevykov-dnr-lnr\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\">Irakli Komaxidze<\/a>, translated by Gennadiy Kornev.<\/em>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}