{"id":5478,"date":"2015-09-23T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:22:31","slug":"massive-deployment-of-the-russian-troops-and-equipment-from-the-occupied-abkhazia-is-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/massive-deployment-of-the-russian-troops-and-equipment-from-the-occupied-abkhazia-is-registered\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Deployment of the Russian Troops And Equipment from the Occupied Abkhazia Is Registered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The international volunteer group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\" target=\"_blank\">InformNapalm.org<\/a>\u00a0has documented a massive movement of the Russian occupation forces from the 7th military base in Gudauta (occupied Abkhazia, Georgia). One of the first equipment echelons was seen on the railway near the town of Tuapse (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) on September 12, 2015. The last echelons were seen in Sochi on September 19. This story presents the details with the photo and video evidence, as well as the\u00a0intermediate conclusions about the Russian occupation forces&#8217; actions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The servicemen of the 7th base of Russia&#8217;s occupation forces in Abkhazia have been\u00a0mentioned a lot in the context of &#8216;Rostov-Ukraine assignments&#8217;. We have written how the soldiers were deployed, awarded, forced\u00a0to sign contracts, how they sued\u00a0this military unit. But the last week we registered an\u00a0extensive movement of the troops from the base to the territory of Russia. Eyewitnesses documented several echelons loaded with military equipment and weaponry near Sochi:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>One of the first echelons was noticed on the railway <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/BNVJH\">near Tuapse on September 12<\/a>. It was loaded with BM-21 &#8216;Grad&#8217; MLRS units, KamAZ trucks, BTR-82 APCs and command vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12894\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-0.jpg\" alt=\"eshelon 0\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-vYPGZp0gHSI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12895\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-vYPGZp0gHSI-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"4 vYPGZp0gHSI\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-ukSeqNB90PY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12896\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-ukSeqNB90PY-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"1 ukSeqNB90PY\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-XEBwvl-VBSE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12897\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-XEBwvl-VBSE.jpg\" alt=\"2 XEBwvl-VBSE\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-OY_ReE9XcYw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12898\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-OY_ReE9XcYw.jpg\" alt=\"3 OY_ReE9XcYw\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>One of the last trains transferred the military equipment from the 7th base on September 19. Around 50 units of various military equipment (including T-90 tanks, 2S3 &#8216;Akatsiya&#8217; self-propelled guns,\u00a0fire control vehicles, command vehicles, and electronic warfare) were registered in Sochi.<br \/>\nThe facts are presented in the video:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZT8rb22SjUc?rel=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(The original video named &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d6ESfZq-hp0\" target=\"_blank\">Sochi tanks<\/a>&#8216; was uploaded by <a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink g-hovercard spf-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3aRIz4dK_33Ym9QweK6afw\" target=\"_blank\">Shishkinbab<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12900\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-2.jpg\" alt=\"eshelon 2\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12901\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-1.jpg\" alt=\"eshelon 1\" width=\"900\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The location identification &#8211; the railway\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/maps\/@43.5893044,39.7286199,206m\/data=!3m1!1e3\" target=\"_blank\">on the satellite map<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/111267956?source=wapi&amp;referrer=kh.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">the photo of this area<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mesto-siomki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12902\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mesto-siomki.jpg\" alt=\"mesto siomki\" width=\"900\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foto-ucjastka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12903\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foto-ucjastka.jpg\" alt=\"foto ucjastka\" width=\"900\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>According to the preliminary estimates, the forces deployed from Abkhazia make a full-size\u00a0battalion tactical group. It contains: BTR-82 battalion, T-90 tank company, mixed &#8216;Akatsia&#8217; and &#8216;Grad&#8217; division, reconnaissance company and other supply units.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The movements of the Russian forces in Sochi area of the border between Georgia and the Russian Federation have been\u00a0registered\u00a0previously as well\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0but the scale of the last week deployment\u00a0was in large excess over standard troops rotations or marches for trainings. Let us note that the 7th base has 2 training sites in Abkhazia &#8211; a coastal one in <strong>Nagvalou<\/strong>, and a mountain one in <strong>Tsebelda<\/strong>. And\u00a0none of them allows to conduct a training for a battalion tactical group with shooting from all types of weaponry. That is why the units of this base are usually sent to training sites in <strong>Molkino<\/strong> (Rostov Oblast) and <strong>Ashuluk<\/strong> (Astrakhan Oblast). But a\u00a0common training event\u00a0requires just one echelon for the personnel with some supplies, since the training equipment is already located at the shooting ground.\u00a0<strong>The only exception was the Spring-Summer trainings of the 7th base conducted in Astrakhan Oblast in 2014. Then the military units instead of returning to Gudauta were sent to the Ukrainian border area with following participation in summer-fall fights in Donbas.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We should not leave out the possibility of transferring the troops to Novorossiysk for further deployment to Syria with the help of the Russian Navy&#8217;s landing platforms. We have published an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/war-in-syria-how-the-russian-navy-helps-bashar-assad\/\">the increase in LPDs expeditions<\/a>\u00a0from the ports of the occupied Crimea and Novorossiysk to the Syrian port of Tartus.<\/p>\n<p>By this moment we have documented just the fact of the troops deployment from Abkhazia. There is no information about the destination point of the forces moved from the 7th military base as for September 22, 2015. But taking into account the last year experience, we can assume that this battalion group will be sent to the Ukrainian border for the rotation or for enforcement of the Russian troops before the conflict escalation. The participation of the 7th base&#8217;s servicemen in the &#8216;Rostov-Ukraine assignments&#8217; have been numerously proved by direct and indirect evidence gathered\u00a0by InformNapalm.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information we have, besides being on duty at the Ukrainian border, a group of contract servicemen of this base is now in the occupied territory of Donbas, fighting in the ranks of the illegal armed formations. A new article on this topic will be published soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here are other materials regarding the 7th military base:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-sover-story-of-the-former-soldier-of-the-7th-russian-base-does-not-hold-water\/\">The \u0421over Story of the \u2018Former\u2019 Soldier of the 7th Russian Base Does not Hold Water<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/cinderellas-with-self-propelled-artillery-systems-or-how-russian-contract-servicemen-are-posing-as-self-defence\/\">\u2018Cinderellas\u2019 with Self-propelled Artillery Systems or How Russian Contract Servicemen are Posing as \u2018Self-defence\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/more-soldiers-from-7th-military-base-received-combat-medals-after-temporary-duties-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/involuntarily-military-service-russia-conscripts-imposed-contract-trip-rostov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Involuntarily Military Service: How Russia Conscripts Imposed with a Contract and a Trip to Rostov<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-unit-of-the-7th-tank-brigade\/\">The unit of the 7th Tank Brigade, Central Military District, among the invading forces in Eastern Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><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 style=\"text-align: justify\"><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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/12847-perebroska-iz-abhazyy\">Original article<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a>, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international volunteer group\u00a0InformNapalm.org\u00a0has documented a massive movement of the Russian occupation forces from the 7th military&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5479,"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":[4,528,5],"tags":[357,167,240],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainnews","category-news","category-terrorussians","tag-russian-aggression","tag-russian-armed-forces","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massive Deployment of the Russian Troops And Equipment from the Occupied Abkhazia Is Registered - InformNapalm.org (English)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the destination point? 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One of the first equipment echelons was seen on the railway near the town of Tuapse (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) on September 12, 2015. The last echelons were seen in Sochi on September 19. This story presents the details with the photo and video evidence, as well as the\u00a0intermediate conclusions about the Russian occupation forces' actions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The servicemen of the 7th base of Russia's occupation forces in Abkhazia have been\u00a0mentioned a lot in the context of 'Rostov-Ukraine assignments'. We have written how the soldiers were deployed, awarded, forced\u00a0to sign contracts, how they sued\u00a0this military unit. But the last week we registered an\u00a0extensive movement of the troops from the base to the territory of Russia. Eyewitnesses documented several echelons loaded with military equipment and weaponry near Sochi:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\r\n\t<li>One of the first echelons was noticed on the railway <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/BNVJH\">near Tuapse on September 12<\/a>. It was loaded with BM-21 'Grad' MLRS units, KamAZ trucks, BTR-82 APCs and command vehicles.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-0.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12894\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-0.jpg\" alt=\"eshelon 0\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-vYPGZp0gHSI.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12895\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4-vYPGZp0gHSI-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"4 vYPGZp0gHSI\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-ukSeqNB90PY.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12896\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1-ukSeqNB90PY-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"1 ukSeqNB90PY\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-XEBwvl-VBSE.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12897\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-XEBwvl-VBSE.jpg\" alt=\"2 XEBwvl-VBSE\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-OY_ReE9XcYw.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12898\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/3-OY_ReE9XcYw.jpg\" alt=\"3 OY_ReE9XcYw\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\r\n\t<li>One of the last trains transferred the military equipment from the 7th base on September 19. Around 50 units of various military equipment (including T-90 tanks, 2S3 'Akatsiya' self-propelled guns,\u00a0fire control vehicles, command vehicles, and electronic warfare) were registered in Sochi.\r\nThe facts are presented in the video:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZT8rb22SjUc?rel=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(The original video named '<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d6ESfZq-hp0\" target=\"_blank\">Sochi tanks<\/a>' was uploaded by <a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink g-hovercard spf-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3aRIz4dK_33Ym9QweK6afw\" target=\"_blank\">Shishkinbab<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12900\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-2.jpg\" alt=\"eshelon 2\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12901\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/eshelon-1.jpg\" alt=\"eshelon 1\" width=\"900\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The location identification - the railway\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/maps\/@43.5893044,39.7286199,206m\/data=!3m1!1e3\" target=\"_blank\">on the satellite map<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/111267956?source=wapi&amp;referrer=kh.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">the photo of this area<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mesto-siomki.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12902\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mesto-siomki.jpg\" alt=\"mesto siomki\" width=\"900\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foto-ucjastka.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12903\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/foto-ucjastka.jpg\" alt=\"foto ucjastka\" width=\"900\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>According to the preliminary estimates, the forces deployed from Abkhazia make a full-size\u00a0battalion tactical group. It contains: BTR-82 battalion, T-90 tank company, mixed 'Akatsia' and 'Grad' division, reconnaissance company and other supply units.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The movements of the Russian forces in Sochi area of the border between Georgia and the Russian Federation have been\u00a0registered\u00a0previously as well\u00a0-\u00a0but the scale of the last week deployment\u00a0was in large excess over standard troops rotations or marches for trainings. Let us note that the 7th base has 2 training sites in Abkhazia - a coastal one in <strong>Nagvalou<\/strong>, and a mountain one in <strong>Tsebelda<\/strong>. And\u00a0none of them allows to conduct a training for a battalion tactical group with shooting from all types of weaponry. That is why the units of this base are usually sent to training sites in <strong>Molkino<\/strong> (Rostov Oblast) and <strong>Ashuluk<\/strong> (Astrakhan Oblast). But a\u00a0common training event\u00a0requires just one echelon for the personnel with some supplies, since the training equipment is already located at the shooting ground.\u00a0<strong>The only exception was the Spring-Summer trainings of the 7th base conducted in Astrakhan Oblast in 2014. Then the military units instead of returning to Gudauta were sent to the Ukrainian border area with following participation in summer-fall fights in Donbas.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We should not leave out the possibility of transferring the troops to Novorossiysk for further deployment to Syria with the help of the Russian Navy's landing platforms. We have published an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/war-in-syria-how-the-russian-navy-helps-bashar-assad\/\">the increase in LPDs expeditions<\/a>\u00a0from the ports of the occupied Crimea and Novorossiysk to the Syrian port of Tartus.<\/p>\r\nBy this moment we have documented just the fact of the troops deployment from Abkhazia. There is no information about the destination point of the forces moved from the 7th military base as for September 22, 2015. But taking into account the last year experience, we can assume that this battalion group will be sent to the Ukrainian border for the rotation or for enforcement of the Russian troops before the conflict escalation. The participation of the 7th base's servicemen in the 'Rostov-Ukraine assignments' have been numerously proved by direct and indirect evidence gathered\u00a0by InformNapalm.\r\n\r\nAccording to the information we have, besides being on duty at the Ukrainian border, a group of contract servicemen of this base is now in the occupied territory of Donbas, fighting in the ranks of the illegal armed formations. A new article on this topic will be published soon.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here are other materials regarding the 7th military base:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-sover-story-of-the-former-soldier-of-the-7th-russian-base-does-not-hold-water\/\">The \u0421over Story of the \u2018Former\u2019 Soldier of the 7th Russian Base Does not Hold Water<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/cinderellas-with-self-propelled-artillery-systems-or-how-russian-contract-servicemen-are-posing-as-self-defence\/\">\u2018Cinderellas\u2019 with Self-propelled Artillery Systems or How Russian Contract Servicemen are Posing as \u2018Self-defence\u2019<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/more-soldiers-from-7th-military-base-received-combat-medals-after-temporary-duties-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/involuntarily-military-service-russia-conscripts-imposed-contract-trip-rostov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Involuntarily Military Service: How Russia Conscripts Imposed with a Contract and a Trip to Rostov<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-unit-of-the-7th-tank-brigade\/\">The unit of the 7th Tank Brigade, Central Military District, among the invading forces in Eastern Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><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 style=\"text-align: justify\"><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&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/12847-perebroska-iz-abhazyy\">Original article<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a>, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/em>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}