{"id":5059,"date":"2015-08-19T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:23:01","slug":"research-on-unit-commander-of-the-russian-gru-whose-servicemen-were-captured-by-the-ukrainian-army-in-shchastya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/research-on-unit-commander-of-the-russian-gru-whose-servicemen-were-captured-by-the-ukrainian-army-in-shchastya\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on Unit Commander of the Russian GRU Whose Servicemen Were Captured by the Ukrainian Army in Shchastya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story about the contract servicemen of the Russian GRU captured by the Ukrainian military during the battle near the town of Shchastya on May 16 is already widely reported by the Ukrainian and international media. It is quite evident that Captain Erofeev and Sergeant Aleksandrov are just a top of the iceberg of the Russian troops presence in the occupied territory of Ukraine in Luhansk Oblast. Blogger <\/b>Anton Pavlushko<\/b><\/a> who is doing OSINT investigation concerning Russian military presence made a special research for <\/b>InformNapalm<\/b><\/a> during which he used social networks to obtain information about the unit commander in which Erofeev and Aleksandrov were serving before their captivity.<\/b><\/p>\n

A quote from the interrogation of Aleksandrov: <\/span>\u201c\u2026 we entered the territory of Ukraine on March 26, 2015. I entered with the second battalion, consisting of 220 people. The commander of battalion Konstantin Nikolayevich Napolskikh is major and a citizen of the Russian Federation. The second battalion consisted of the three scout groups…\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n