18th Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit \u2116 27777), based in Khankala and Kalinovskaya village, Chechnya, is part of the Russian 58th Army of the Southern Military District\u00a0and Russian military unit which is actively participating in the Donbas War.<\/b><\/p>\n
While examining information and social profiles of the servicemen of 18th brigade (photo albums, comments, contacts, statuses, geotags, etc.), we detected a group of contract servicemen from the reconnaissance company of this brigade, who were deployed to Ukraine in Spring and Summer of 2014.<\/p>\n
In the outcome we were able to gather evidence, confirming the presence of Russian scouts in active combat in Donbas. Among\u00a0the indicators, pointing to the presence of those Russians in Ukraine, are online photos in which\u00a0these people are posing white arm bands, non-commissioned uniform, Novorossiya insignia, St. George ribbons, weapons and military equipment, masked with DNR\/LNR signs yet in a manner which made trace analysis (linking the equipment to Russia) still possible.<\/p>\n