{"id":5709,"date":"2015-10-12T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2017-02-25T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:24:11","slug":"the-russian-74th-brigade-s-contract-servicemen-fight-in-donbas-as-hooligans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-russian-74th-brigade-s-contract-servicemen-fight-in-donbas-as-hooligans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian 74th Brigade’s Contract Servicemen Fight in Donbas As Hooligans"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue gathering evidence of Russia’s armed forces’ participation in combats in Donbas.\u00a0At the conclusion of another OSINT investigation we got new information\u00a0regarding the ‘Rostov-Ukraine assignment’ of the 74th separate motorized rifle brigade (military unit No. 21005, Central Military District, Yurga, Kemerov Oblast, Russia) in the summer and fall of 2014. Also we have proofs that certain servicemen of this unit are still in the occupied territory of Donbas and serve in the ranks of the illegal armed formations of so-called ‘Novorossiya’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conducting the in-depth analysis of the information found in VKontakte’s ‘Unit 21005, Kemerov Oblast, Yurga<\/a>‘ group, we found a set of topics with the correspondence between the relatives and close people of the 74th brigade’s servicemen. All those conversations concerned\u00a0the events during the ‘southern assignment’ of the unit in the summer and fall of 2014. The ‘Who knows anything about our guys in Rostov? Calm me down. No news for 4 days<\/a>‘ (archive<\/a>) topic is worth sharing. Between August 30 and October 2, the\u00a0readers\u00a0of this topic discussed the details of Yurga’s brigade’s participation in the combat actions in Donbas, including fights for the Luhansk airport. Here are several quotations (provided also as screenshots):<\/p>\n

Svetlana Kovalenko<\/a>: “the things are bad there! my friend’s husband called today and said they tried to capture the airport yesterday! they were shelled and he was laying wounded in a hospital. He said there are many wounded<\/em>”<\/p>\n

September 2, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Chayana Mongush<\/a>: “There are wounded indeed, but no information about killed”<\/em><\/p>\n

September 2, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Chayana Mongush<\/a>:\u00a0“Nobody from Yurga’s unit was killed, this is for sure. It’s morning there, they are sleeping, commanders store the mobiles. They will call when get the phones back.”<\/em>
\nSeptember 3, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ksenia Ushkalova<\/a>: “Hooray! Husband has called! He said he was on war. They plan to come back by the end of September”<\/em>
\nSeptember 3, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tatyana Remer<\/a>:\u00a0“Do they know if there will be a new transfer of our guys to Ukraine?”<\/em>
\nSeptember 3, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Svetlana Kovalenko<\/a> answered\u00a0Tatyana Remer<\/a>: “It seems that no, Tatyana, we won!”<\/em>
\nSeptember 3, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Another topic, named ‘Here is how our heroes live )))<\/a>‘ (archive<\/a>), contains a photo with comments. Taking into account the informal outfit and the white identification arm badges, the photo shows one of the raids to the Ukrainian Donbas made by the 74th brigade from Rostov Oblast. You can see the masked military equipment in the background.<\/p>\n

Note: some pages of the conversation participants have been removed. Their too\u00a0loose tongues and the corresponding reaction of the authorities may be the reason for that. Or maybe the women ‘whose men\u00a0won’ never met their husbands again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 74th motorized rifle brigade has been already mentioned in our early investigations. The photos of the Yurga’s brigade’s servicemen were published in the materials gathered in November, 2014<\/a>. The pictures were made in the field camps near the Ukrainian border, which were used as bases for the raids to Donbas. Also the copies of the “non disclosure agreements about the restricted\u00a0information regarding\u00a0the execution of the special tasks related to the Russian Federation’s security”<\/strong>\u00a0were provided. There were also photos of the 74th brigade’s \u00a0<\/a>T-72 tank<\/a>\u00a0burnt in Donbas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to our observations, the Russian command used a different\u00a0tactic of their troops usage in Donbas in the last 6 months. In the period\u00a0of\u00a0the Minsk agreements’ terms the Russians gave up using classic\u00a0(battalion or company)\u00a0tactical groups, since such large units can not stay unnoticed (especially since two Russian-terrorist army corps were created as illegal armed formations of new type). Now the Russian contract servicemen man by man or in small groups are assigned to different ‘Novorossiya’s units as instructors or specialists. The following servicemen have been noticed withing such ‘instructors’:<\/p>\n