{"id":4400,"date":"2015-07-06T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:49:48","slug":"separatist-leader-pavel-gubarev-and-the-russian-18th-separate-motorized-rifle-brigade-what-s-the-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/separatist-leader-pavel-gubarev-and-the-russian-18th-separate-motorized-rifle-brigade-what-s-the-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story Behind the Photo: Separatist Leader Pavel Gubarev and the Russian 18th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a photo, published in one of our previous investigations: Russian Air Defence \u2018Decepticons\u2019 in Donbas. Who Shoots Down Ukrainian Air Fleet?<\/a> (translation: courtesy of Censor.net). Former self-proclaimed \u2018Donbas people\u2019s mayor\u2019, the leader of \u2018Novorossiya\u2019 movement, Pavel Gubarev is posing on this photo with 6P11 \u2018Utes\u2019 machine gun.<\/p>\n

Gubarev posed on an off-road pickup truck with a self-made mount for heavy-caliber \u2018Utes\u2019 machine gun. He was wearing a t-shirt with \u2018Novorossiya\u2019 label and was surrounded with the three militant guards.<\/p>\n

You can see a monument in background. The pedestal has several steps, its bottom part is painted with a blue color and the flag (same as pedestal\u2019s sign plate) is golden\/yellow. The top is covered with gray paint which already started to peel off. Unique features of the monument made its geolocation possible: Zrubne village, Shakhtarsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast (47\u00b0 59\u2032 58.63\u2033 N 38\u00b0 52\u2032 10.57\u2033 E)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You wonder how this monument is linked to the Russian army, don\u2019t you? And here the \u2018Peacemaker\u2019 project comes. Profile of Sergey Nikitin, Russian army contract scout from the village of Debyosy, Russia, was added to this website on November 14, 2014. Taking into account his friends, photo album names (\u2018Chechnya. 18th gvardeyskaya\u2019) and geotags (Naurskiy Raion, Russia) we assume that he is serving in the 18th separate guards motorized rifle brigade: https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/nikitin-sergej<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Nikitin already mentioned that he was \u2018in Donbas\u2019 last year. He uploaded photos with white armbands, etc. However now his VK profile<\/a> looks a little bit different (archive links: https:\/\/archive.is\/c9W60<\/a> and https:\/\/archive.is\/bqxyj<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The name is changed and some pictures are removed. But we can see on one of the removed photos how he poses with his friends in front of the same monument to a soldier with a flag: monument, pedestal, colors and even the peeled paint perfectly matches.<\/p>\n

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The group of soldiers with 6P29 \u2018Vintorez\u2019 rifles is clearly seen here, \u2018Nikonov\u2019 (the new VK name of Mr.\u00a0Nikitin) is the second from the left in the bottom row. Mixed camouflage, Russian \u2018Vintorez\u2019, brand new 6B1 SVD rifles \u2014 did the 18th brigade go to vacation in Donbas with its own weapons?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Pavel Gubarev unexpectedly disclosed the 18th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Army.<\/p>\n

Let us remind you that on June, 8 Russian propaganda channel LifeNews<\/a> reported that unknown militants entered an empty office building and opened fire at one of the DNR army units. Representatives of DNR MGB (Ministry of State Security [Russian: \u041c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438])<\/i> arrived at the place, blocked the street and surrounded the building. 15 persons were arrested including Pavel Gubarev. Possibly, our article about his role in disclosing the presence of the 18th brigade in Donbas will play a positive role in charging Mr.\u00a0Gubarev with some crime by the DNR authorities.<\/p>\n

Original article<\/i><\/a> by OSINT investigator <\/i>Anton Pavlushko<\/i><\/a> and InformNapalm team, translated by\u00a0Oleksandr Klymenko, edited by Gennadiy Kornev<\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a photo, published in one of our previous investigations: Russian Air Defence \u2018Decepticons\u2019 in Donbas….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4401,"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":[69,73,497,167,171,172],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donbas","category-mainnews","category-news","category-terrorussians","tag-donbas","tag-dpr","tag-novorossiya","tag-russian-armed-forces","tag-russian-invasion","tag-russian-mercenaries"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Story Behind the Photo: Separatist Leader Pavel Gubarev and the Russian 18th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade - InformNapalm.org (English)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pavel Gubarev posed on a truck with \u2018Utes\u2019 machine gun. 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Who Shoots Down Ukrainian Air Fleet?<\/a> (translation: courtesy of Censor.net). Former self-proclaimed \u2018Donbas people\u2019s mayor\u2019, the leader of \u2018Novorossiya\u2019 movement, Pavel Gubarev is posing on this photo with 6P11 \u2018Utes\u2019 machine gun.\r\n\r\nGubarev posed on an off-road pickup truck with a self-made mount for heavy-caliber \u2018Utes\u2019 machine gun. He was wearing a t-shirt with \u2018Novorossiya\u2019 label and was surrounded with the three militant guards.\r\n\r\nYou can see a monument in background. The pedestal has several steps, its bottom part is painted with a blue color and the flag (same as pedestal\u2019s sign plate) is golden\/yellow. The top is covered with gray paint which already started to peel off. Unique features of the monument made its geolocation possible: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/map\/#lt=47.999620&ln=38.869602&z=4&k=2\">Zrubne village, Shakhtarsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast (47\u00b0 59\u2032 58.63\u2033 N 38\u00b0 52\u2032 10.57\u2033 E)<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zrubnoeee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1548\" height=\"981\" \/>\r\n\r\nYou wonder how this monument is linked to the Russian army, don\u2019t you? And here the \u2018Peacemaker\u2019 project comes. Profile of Sergey Nikitin, Russian army contract scout from the village of Debyosy, Russia, was added to this website on November 14, 2014. Taking into account his friends, photo album names (\u2018Chechnya. 18th gvardeyskaya\u2019) and geotags (Naurskiy Raion, Russia) we assume that he is serving in the 18th separate guards motorized rifle brigade:<a href=\"https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/nikitin-sergej\/\"> https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/nikitin-sergej<\/a>.\r\n\r\nMr.\u00a0Nikitin already mentioned that he was \u2018in Donbas\u2019 last year. He uploaded photos with white armbands, etc. However now his <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id155181733\">VK profile<\/a> looks a little bit different (archive links: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/c9W60\">https:\/\/archive.is\/c9W60<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/bqxyj\">https:\/\/archive.is\/bqxyj<\/a>).\r\n\r\nThe name is changed and some pictures are removed. But we can see on one of the removed photos how he poses with his friends in front of the same monument to a soldier with a flag: monument, pedestal, colors and even the peeled paint perfectly matches.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gjNHM5kZowY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe group of soldiers with 6P29 \u2018Vintorez\u2019 rifles is clearly seen here, \u2018Nikonov\u2019 (the new VK name of Mr.\u00a0Nikitin) is the second from the left in the bottom row. Mixed camouflage, Russian \u2018Vintorez\u2019, brand new 6B1 SVD rifles \u2014 did the 18th brigade go to vacation in Donbas with its own weapons?\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s how Pavel Gubarev unexpectedly disclosed the 18th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Army.\r\n\r\nLet us remind you that on June, 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/lifenews.ru\/news\/155318\">Russian propaganda channel LifeNews<\/a> reported that unknown militants entered an empty office building and opened fire at one of the DNR army units. Representatives of DNR MGB (Ministry of State Security <i>[Russian: \u041c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438])<\/i> arrived at the place, blocked the street and surrounded the building. 15 persons were arrested including Pavel Gubarev. Possibly, our article about his role in disclosing the presence of the 18th brigade in Donbas will play a positive role in charging Mr.\u00a0Gubarev with some crime by the DNR authorities.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/9714-kak-pavel-gubarev-zasvetyl-18-yu-gv-omsbr-vs-rf\"><i>Original article<\/i><\/a><i> by OSINT investigator <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anton.pavlushko\"><i>Anton Pavlushko<\/i><\/a><i> and InformNapalm team, translated by\u00a0Oleksandr Klymenko, edited by Gennadiy Kornev<\/i><i>.<\/i>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","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=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}