{"id":5646,"date":"2015-10-09T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:25:35","slug":"alternative-energy-under-the-control-of-the-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/alternative-energy-under-the-control-of-the-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Gone With the Wind. Largest Electrical Windfarms in Ukraine Under the Control of the Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\" target=\"_blank\">InformNapalm<\/a>\u00a0international volunteer group gathered evidence of presence of the Russian militants within\u00a0the territory of the &#8216;Novoazovskyi&#8217; windfarm and monitored the activities of the Ukrainian electrical windfarms in the occupied territories of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a02008 Ukrainian authorities launched\u00a0a\u00a0green tariff, according to\u00a0which companies\u00a0generating\u00a0power from renewable sources (solar, wind, water and waste fuels based energy) earn\u00a0many times more comparing to\u00a0thermal or nuclear power stations. Subsidies\u00a0of the &#8216;green&#8217; power generation are\u00a0practiced all over the world. It\u00a0is a strategic investment and the protection of the environment\u00a0for the developed countries. But in Ukraine the green tariff became an\u00a0enrichment scheme for Andriy Klyuyev, former Verkhovna Rada deputy\u00a0and head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine at the times of Victor Yanukhovych. Klyuyev owns Active Solar doing installations of solar panels. But when Active Solar lost its leadership after the annexation of the Crimea, the windfarm operators took the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>Management Company &#8216;Wind Parks of Ukraine&#8217;, LLC is one of the biggest holdings in the wind power generating sector of Ukraine. It includes &#8216;Fuhrl\u00e4nder Windtechnology&#8217; \u2014 an\u00a0enterprise, specializing in the production of modern wind turbines, incorporated in Kramatorsk in July, 2010 and a group of\u00a0windfarms, producing the power or being at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wpu.com.ua\/en\/article\/planned-wind-parks\/\">stage of construction\/planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5693 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN.png\" alt=\"WindPower_A4_EN\" width=\"1754\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN.png 1754w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN-1024x724.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1754px) 100vw, 1754px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the windfarms, namely: Novoazovskyi, Krasnodonsky, Lutuhynskyi are located in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. In 2014 these companies changed the registration\u00a0address: <em>01021, Kyiv, Klovskyi\u00a0descent, 7.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is not quite clear about Kerchenskyi windfarm, since it is registered in the\u00a0Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Leninsky raion,<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Novomykolaivka<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">,\u00a0Oktyabrska str., 18A. But the Russian state register of corporations says that this windfarm is located\u00a0in the occupied Crimea and was registered as the Russian legal entity on November 28, 2014. Balla G.E. is the director of the enterprise according to both: Russian and Ukrainian registers of corporations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An article in\u00a0the Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rg.ru\/2015\/01\/29\/reg-kfo\/vie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rossiyskaya Gazeta<\/a>\u00a0notes that the Crimean windfarms\u00a0seceded from the Ukrainian mother company. &#8216;We have registered four legal entities\u00a0in Crimea,&#8217; \u2014\u00a0says Gennady Balla, the director of the Crimean windfarms. &#8216;Kerchenskiy windfarm\u00a0is already operating. As for the Prysyvashskyi \u2014 we have already received the\u00a0technical specifications from Krymenergo for interconnection with\u00a0their supply substation. Sakskyi and Stepovyi windfarms are waiting for their turn.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Note that the Novoazovskyi, Krasnodonskyi, Lutuhynskyi and Antratsytovskyi windfarms have identical founders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wind Parks of Ukraine, registered in Kramatorsk;<\/li>\n<li>UkrMashInvest Pension Funds Administration and Asset Management Company, registered in Kramatorsk;<\/li>\n<li>DEWOTT HOLDINGS LIMITED, registered in Cyprus;<\/li>\n<li>M-Capital, Closed Non-diversified Corporate Venture Investment Fund, registered in Donetsk, Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ultimate beneficial owner of the windfarms is Oleh Artushevych\u00a0Mkrtchan, known as the CEO and co-owner of the Industrial Union of Donbas.\u00a0The ultimate beneficial owner of the Wind Parks of\u00a0Ukraine is <em>Olena Volodymyrivna Blyzniuk<\/em> \u2014 the wife of the son of a former governor of Donetsk Oblast and <em>Anatoli Mykhailovych Blyzniuk<\/em>, former Minister for Regional Development,\u00a0Construction and Housing.\u00a0The ultimate beneficial owner of\u00a0the windfarming production component in &#8216;Fuhrl\u00e4nder Windtechnology&#8217; is <em>Maksym Viktorovych Efimov<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the construction of windfarms is funded with the money of the shareholders of the Industrial Union of Donbas, family of the former Donetsk Oblast governor Anatoly Blyzniuk and Maksym Efimov, an MP from Solidarnist, Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nashigroshi.org\/2015\/08\/05\/elektrostantsiya-blyznyuka-styahnula-z-ukrajiny-53-miljony-bo-perekonala-suddiv-scho-pratsyuje-ne-v-dnr\/\">Nashi Hroshi<\/a>\u00a0[Our Money] website investigating corruption reports that the <strong>State Enterprise Enerhorynok<\/strong>, responsible for operating the electricity market in Ukraine, signed a contract on\u00a0supply of electricity\u00a0with Novoazovskyi windfarm back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities\u00a0issued a number of orders\u00a0in March 2015\u00a0by which the decision was made not to transfer payments to producers of electrical energy, whose equipment was located\u00a0within the\u00a0occupied\u00a0territory of Ukraine. Novoazovskyi windfarm was also in the list. But in April 2015 this windfarm and\u00a0Vetroenergoprom company managed to get a\u00a0court decision to\u00a0exclude them from the list.\u00a0The court took into account the fact the company&#8217;s facilities are located in the territory of the Rozivska village council in Donetsk Oblast.<\/p>\n<p>By the government&#8217;s ordinance\u00a0of November 2015, only Krasnoarmiyske\u00a0and\u00a0Novoazovsk in Novoazovsk\u00a0raion and Primorske in Starobesheve raion were marked as settlements\u00a0uncontrolled by Ukraine. No evidence of companies&#8217; capacities being in the uncontrolled territory were provided to the\u00a0court. \u00a0Thus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reyestr.court.gov.ua\/Review\/47620433\">the court decided<\/a> <strong>on July 22, 2015,<\/strong> that\u00a0State Enterprise Energorynok must\u00a0<strong>compensate 52.73 million hryvnias\u00a0in favor of Novoazovskiy windfarm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will not delve into the intricacies of this legal process, but we should mention\u00a0that the\u00a0representatives of the Russian occupation forces pay\u00a0attention to this wind park\u00a0despite the fact that the production of electricity is located in\u00a0the disputed territory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetryaky-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13444\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetryaky-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u0435\u0442\u0440\u044f\u043a\u0438 1\" width=\"771\" height=\"692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Snymok-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13454\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Snymok-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a 3\" width=\"755\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier there were only\u00a0group\u00a0selfies\u00a0in front of wind\u00a0turbines. Now we found the evidence that the military criminals started to play the masters in the territory of Novoazovskyi windfarm. The militants climb the turbines and use them as observation points. All this was documented in the video by Artur Shcheglyakov, a militant from Luhansk (<a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id322848798\" target=\"_blank\">VK profile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ixuhE\" target=\"_blank\">archive 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nr4gL\" target=\"_blank\">archive 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Video: Novoazovskyi Windfarm: Terrorists Pretend Being Astronauts<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-TA2YvAg15g?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look at the video\u00a0location on the map. The video\u00a0was shot from FL-2500 wind turbine produced by\u00a0&#8216;Fuhrl\u00e4nder Windtechnology&#8217;. You can see the\u00a0sea in the distance, the town of Sahanka\u00a0can be found on the left, the\u00a0USW 56-100\u00a0wind turbines are on the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vodoem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13445\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vodoem.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0435\u043c\" width=\"396\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetropole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13446\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetropole.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435\" width=\"396\" height=\"579\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This geolocation leaves\u00a0no doubt that the video was taken\u00a0in\u00a0the territory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/maps\/place\/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%92%D0%95%D0%A1\/@47.1413545,37.9058468,2087m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e6c3d92a117a47:0xba51ccd02d9207c5\">Novoazovskyi wind park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Karta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13447\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Karta.jpg\" alt=\"\u041a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430\" width=\"1337\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do militants do in the windfarm territory? Do they observe positions or use the wind turbines as a shield for their camp? There is another video of a field camp in this profile, but the position of it remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sc_Xa9wwWB0?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The aerial\u00a0reconnaissance conducted by &#8216;Dnepr-1&#8217; battalion disclosed a build up of the military equipment in the Bezimenne village. The photos demonstrate\u00a0defensive works at the wind turbine basement from which Artur Shcheglyakov made his video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ogn_rubezhi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13448\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ogn_rubezhi.png\" alt=\"ogn_rubezhi\" width=\"762\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bezimennoe_2_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13449\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bezimennoe_2_1.png\" alt=\"bezimennoe_2_1\" width=\"765\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This way, no matter if the\u00a0residential area is in the list of the uncontrolled ones, the production of the electric power is done under the control of the Russian occupation forces. How much does such kind of &#8216;protection&#8217;\u00a0cost?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Foto-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13455\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Foto-31.jpg\" alt=\"\u0424\u043e\u0442\u043e 3\" width=\"644\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are going to continue monitoring the windfarms&#8217; functioning not only in the area of Novoazovsk, but also in Lutuhyne, Krasnodon and Antratsyt raions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/13406-vetrografika\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Krm<\/a><\/strong>, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko, edited by Gennadiy Kornev.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InformNapalm\u00a0international volunteer group gathered evidence of presence of the Russian militants within\u00a0the territory of the &#8216;Novoazovskyi&#8217; windfarm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5685,"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":[530,4,528],"tags":[60,73,172],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimea","category-mainnews","category-news","tag-crimea","tag-dpr","tag-russian-mercenaries"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Money Gone With the Wind. 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Subsidies\u00a0of the 'green' power generation are\u00a0practiced all over the world. It\u00a0is a strategic investment and the protection of the environment\u00a0for the developed countries. But in Ukraine the green tariff became an\u00a0enrichment scheme for Andriy Klyuyev, former Verkhovna Rada deputy\u00a0and head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine at the times of Victor Yanukhovych. Klyuyev owns Active Solar doing installations of solar panels. But when Active Solar lost its leadership after the annexation of the Crimea, the windfarm operators took the lead role.\r\n\r\nManagement Company 'Wind Parks of Ukraine', LLC is one of the biggest holdings in the wind power generating sector of Ukraine. It includes 'Fuhrl\u00e4nder Windtechnology' \u2014 an\u00a0enterprise, specializing in the production of modern wind turbines, incorporated in Kramatorsk in July, 2010 and a group of\u00a0windfarms, producing the power or being at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wpu.com.ua\/en\/article\/planned-wind-parks\/\">stage of construction\/planning<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN.png\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-5693 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/10\/WindPower_A4_EN.png\" alt=\"WindPower_A4_EN\" width=\"1754\" height=\"1240\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nMost of the windfarms, namely: Novoazovskyi, Krasnodonsky, Lutuhynskyi are located in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. In 2014 these companies changed the registration\u00a0address: <em>01021, Kyiv, Klovskyi\u00a0descent, 7.<\/em>\r\n\r\nIt is not quite clear about Kerchenskyi windfarm, since it is registered in the\u00a0Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Leninsky raion,<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Novomykolaivka<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">,\u00a0Oktyabrska str., 18A. But the Russian state register of corporations says that this windfarm is located\u00a0in the occupied Crimea and was registered as the Russian legal entity on November 28, 2014. Balla G.E. is the director of the enterprise according to both: Russian and Ukrainian registers of corporations.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nAn article in\u00a0the Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rg.ru\/2015\/01\/29\/reg-kfo\/vie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rossiyskaya Gazeta<\/a>\u00a0notes that the Crimean windfarms\u00a0seceded from the Ukrainian mother company. 'We have registered four legal entities\u00a0in Crimea,' \u2014\u00a0says Gennady Balla, the director of the Crimean windfarms. 'Kerchenskiy windfarm\u00a0is already operating. As for the Prysyvashskyi \u2014 we have already received the\u00a0technical specifications from Krymenergo for interconnection with\u00a0their supply substation. Sakskyi and Stepovyi windfarms are waiting for their turn.'\r\n\r\nNote that the Novoazovskyi, Krasnodonskyi, Lutuhynskyi and Antratsytovskyi windfarms have identical founders:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Wind Parks of Ukraine, registered in Kramatorsk;<\/li>\r\n\t<li>UkrMashInvest Pension Funds Administration and Asset Management Company, registered in Kramatorsk;<\/li>\r\n\t<li>DEWOTT HOLDINGS LIMITED, registered in Cyprus;<\/li>\r\n\t<li>M-Capital, Closed Non-diversified Corporate Venture Investment Fund, registered in Donetsk, Ukraine.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe ultimate beneficial owner of the windfarms is Oleh Artushevych\u00a0Mkrtchan, known as the CEO and co-owner of the Industrial Union of Donbas.\u00a0The ultimate beneficial owner of the Wind Parks of\u00a0Ukraine is <em>Olena Volodymyrivna Blyzniuk<\/em> \u2014 the wife of the son of a former governor of Donetsk Oblast and <em>Anatoli Mykhailovych Blyzniuk<\/em>, former Minister for Regional Development,\u00a0Construction and Housing.\u00a0The ultimate beneficial owner of\u00a0the windfarming production component in 'Fuhrl\u00e4nder Windtechnology' is <em>Maksym Viktorovych Efimov<\/em>.\r\n\r\nThus, the construction of windfarms is funded with the money of the shareholders of the Industrial Union of Donbas, family of the former Donetsk Oblast governor Anatoly Blyzniuk and Maksym Efimov, an MP from Solidarnist, Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nashigroshi.org\/2015\/08\/05\/elektrostantsiya-blyznyuka-styahnula-z-ukrajiny-53-miljony-bo-perekonala-suddiv-scho-pratsyuje-ne-v-dnr\/\">Nashi Hroshi<\/a>\u00a0[Our Money] website investigating corruption reports that the <strong>State Enterprise Enerhorynok<\/strong>, responsible for operating the electricity market in Ukraine, signed a contract on\u00a0supply of electricity\u00a0with Novoazovskyi windfarm back in 2011.\r\n\r\nAt the same time the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities\u00a0issued a number of orders\u00a0in March 2015\u00a0by which the decision was made not to transfer payments to producers of electrical energy, whose equipment was located\u00a0within the\u00a0occupied\u00a0territory of Ukraine. Novoazovskyi windfarm was also in the list. But in April 2015 this windfarm and\u00a0Vetroenergoprom company managed to get a\u00a0court decision to\u00a0exclude them from the list.\u00a0The court took into account the fact the company's facilities are located in the territory of the Rozivska village council in Donetsk Oblast.\r\n\r\nBy the government's ordinance\u00a0of November 2015, only Krasnoarmiyske\u00a0and\u00a0Novoazovsk in Novoazovsk\u00a0raion and Primorske in Starobesheve raion were marked as settlements\u00a0uncontrolled by Ukraine. No evidence of companies' capacities being in the uncontrolled territory were provided to the\u00a0court. \u00a0Thus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reyestr.court.gov.ua\/Review\/47620433\">the court decided<\/a> <strong>on July 22, 2015,<\/strong> that\u00a0State Enterprise Energorynok must\u00a0<strong>compensate 52.73 million hryvnias\u00a0in favor of Novoazovskiy windfarm.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWe will not delve into the intricacies of this legal process, but we should mention\u00a0that the\u00a0representatives of the Russian occupation forces pay\u00a0attention to this wind park\u00a0despite the fact that the production of electricity is located in\u00a0the disputed territory.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetryaky-1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13444\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetryaky-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u0435\u0442\u0440\u044f\u043a\u0438 1\" width=\"771\" height=\"692\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Snymok-3.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13454\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Snymok-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a 3\" width=\"755\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nEarlier there were only\u00a0group\u00a0selfies\u00a0in front of wind\u00a0turbines. Now we found the evidence that the military criminals started to play the masters in the territory of Novoazovskyi windfarm. The militants climb the turbines and use them as observation points. All this was documented in the video by Artur Shcheglyakov, a militant from Luhansk (<a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id322848798\" target=\"_blank\">VK profile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ixuhE\" target=\"_blank\">archive 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nr4gL\" target=\"_blank\">archive 2<\/a>).\r\n\r\n<em>Video: Novoazovskyi Windfarm: Terrorists Pretend Being Astronauts<\/em>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-TA2YvAg15g?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nLet's take a closer look at the video\u00a0location on the map. The video\u00a0was shot from FL-2500 wind turbine produced by\u00a0'Fuhrl\u00e4nder Windtechnology'. You can see the\u00a0sea in the distance, the town of Sahanka\u00a0can be found on the left, the\u00a0USW 56-100\u00a0wind turbines are on the right.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vodoem.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13445\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vodoem.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0435\u043c\" width=\"396\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetropole.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13446\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Vetropole.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435\" width=\"396\" height=\"579\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThis geolocation leaves\u00a0no doubt that the video was taken\u00a0in\u00a0the territory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/maps\/place\/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%92%D0%95%D0%A1\/@47.1413545,37.9058468,2087m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e6c3d92a117a47:0xba51ccd02d9207c5\">Novoazovskyi wind park<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Karta.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13447\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Karta.jpg\" alt=\"\u041a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430\" width=\"1337\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nWhat do militants do in the windfarm territory? Do they observe positions or use the wind turbines as a shield for their camp? There is another video of a field camp in this profile, but the position of it remains unknown.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sc_Xa9wwWB0?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nThe aerial\u00a0reconnaissance conducted by 'Dnepr-1' battalion disclosed a build up of the military equipment in the Bezimenne village. The photos demonstrate\u00a0defensive works at the wind turbine basement from which Artur Shcheglyakov made his video.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ogn_rubezhi.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13448\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ogn_rubezhi.png\" alt=\"ogn_rubezhi\" width=\"762\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bezimennoe_2_1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13449\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bezimennoe_2_1.png\" alt=\"bezimennoe_2_1\" width=\"765\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>This way, no matter if the\u00a0residential area is in the list of the uncontrolled ones, the production of the electric power is done under the control of the Russian occupation forces. How much does such kind of 'protection'\u00a0cost?\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Foto-31.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13455\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Foto-31.jpg\" alt=\"\u0424\u043e\u0442\u043e 3\" width=\"644\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>We are going to continue monitoring the windfarms' functioning not only in the area of Novoazovsk, but also in Lutuhyne, Krasnodon and Antratsyt raions.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/13406-vetrografika\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Krm<\/a><\/strong>, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko, edited by Gennadiy Kornev.<\/em>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","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=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}