{"id":7346,"date":"2016-01-12T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2016-01-15T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:41:10","slug":"jan12-donbas-buryat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/jan12-donbas-buryat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;War Buryats of the Russian World&#8217;: Russian 5th Tank Brigade in Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volunteers of the InformNapalm international community continue to register facts of the Russian servicemen&#8217;s concealed participation in the war conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. The current investigation\u00a0discloses presence of the &#8216;war Buryats&#8217; in Donbas. In particular, our volunteers have tracked the &#8216;tour of duty&#8217; of Bair Guroev, a serviceman from the 5th separate tank brigade of the Russian Federation&#8217;s armed forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Definitely, many of you can recall high-profile story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/siberia-forest-fires-have-burnt-the-tanks-of-the-russian-5th-armored-brigade-near-debaltseve\/\" target=\"_blank\">burnt Buryat Dorzhy Batomunkuev<\/a>\u00a0from the &#8216;famous&#8217; 5th tank brigade (military unit No. 46108, Central Military District, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia). Here is an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/es7M8\">archive<\/a>\u00a0of Batomunkuev&#8217;s interview to the Russian media &#8216;Novaya Gazeta&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Carrying out another open source data investigation, the InformNapalm&#8217;s volunteers found one more fact of &#8216;hybrid&#8217; Buryat tank crewmen&#8217;s participation in the war of the Kremlin against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;hero&#8217; of our story is <strong>Bair Guroev<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/CH22p\">archive<\/a>) from a small\u00a0village of Ust-Obor (Petrovsk-Zabaykalsk raion,\u00a0Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia).\u00a0This village is dominated by the Buryat community.<\/p>\n<p>Archives of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/RYig1\" target=\"_blank\">profile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/8XBwt\" target=\"_blank\">album<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/EgRMw\" target=\"_blank\">contacts<\/a>, and\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/AOJKQ\">license plate No.<\/a>\u00a0(<strong>\u0445581\u0445x[75]<\/strong>).<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_053.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18603\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_053.png\" alt=\"Selection_053\" width=\"415\" height=\"556\" \/><\/a>Bair Guroev casted a lot with Ulan-Ude and service in the Russian army. Taking into account the chronology of the photos, Guroev was enrolled in 2012 (archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/fEMsC\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zkRSa\">2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_054.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18604\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18604 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_054.png\" alt=\"Selection_054\" width=\"490\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a>Specific badges, equipment and ethnic composition, &#8216;Ulan-Ude&#8217; inscription and other points during his service in 2013\u00a0point at the 5th &#8216;Tatsinskaya&#8217; separate tank brigade (military unit No. 46108)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"st-toggle\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<h3 class=\"toggle-title\">Archives<i class=\"icon-plus\"><\/i><i class=\"icon icon-minus\"><\/i><\/h3>\n<div class=\"toggle-content\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"txt-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/I91Qo\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/I91Qo,<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ztlFN\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/ztlFN<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/pMFvc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/pMFvc<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3hj7V\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/3hj7V<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/mlXoL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/mlXoL<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/O7gQc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/O7gQc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18605\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_055.png\" alt=\"Selection_055\" width=\"736\" height=\"584\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_056.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18606\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_056.png\" alt=\"Selection_056\" width=\"585\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, a lot of Guroev&#8217;s contacts also\u00a0come from military unit No. 46108 &#8211; please refer to the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/k0zjI\">coworkers<\/a>&#8216; album.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Guroev had a little &#8216;civil&#8217; period, a kind of vacation, but starting from the second half of 2014 new\u00a0pictures started to appear showing his contract service life in the same unit. (archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/sjcoz\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/V7aQH\">2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_057.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18607\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_057.png\" alt=\"Selection_057\" width=\"395\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Period between December of 2014 and February of 2015 was the most\u00a0intense. Those days the servicemen were transferred &#8216;on training&#8217;. And here comes the most important moment &#8211; Guroev uploaded a picture of movement of a equipment convoy with well-known flag of the so-called &#8216;DPR&#8217; (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/s28kU\">archive<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_058.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18608\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_058.png\" alt=\"Selection_058\" width=\"500\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo was\u00a0taken by Guroev from his own tank on February 25, 2015. We were able to identify the location where it happened &#8211; this is &#8216;Shyrokyi&#8217; district of the Ukrainian Donetsk, in front of &#8216;Epitsentr&#8217; shopping mall on Lenin avenue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/maps\/@47.9242995,37.7638298,3a,75y,17.41h,79.11t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJTMRqi0Pk2klMjjXU8oi0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\">The exact place<\/a> was found with the help of <strong>Google Street View<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_045.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18564\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_045.png\" alt=\"Selection_045\" width=\"977\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pictures also show the tactical sign on a\u00a0vehicle of the pseudo-militants &#8211; a &#8216;white square&#8217;. Equipment with such sign have been numerously registered in the combat action areas in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"st-toggle\">\n<li class=\"\">\n<h3 class=\"toggle-title\">Additional facts<i class=\"icon-plus\"><\/i><i class=\"icon icon-minus\"><\/i><\/h3>\n<div class=\"toggle-content\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"txt-content\">\n<p>A tank with &#8216;N-2200&#8217;\u00a0markings by the Russian Railways (&#8216;cargo within loading gage&#8217;):<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/K46A3\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/archive.is\/K46A3<\/a><br \/>\nSome photos from February show Russian soldiers without any insignia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DtKrQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/DtKrQ<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/SnJFU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/SnJFU<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/og19q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/og19q<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/OW1zt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/OW1zt<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/6YZPC\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/6YZPC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the &#8216;training&#8217; finished in Donbas, the war criminal Bair Guroev continued his service in his native 5th tank brigade at least till the end of summer 2015 (archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ZnDGp\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1sXHN\">2<\/a>). You can see the badge of the military unit No. 46108 on Bair&#8217;s sleeve in the picture taken on August 30, 2015 (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5DBKz\">archive<\/a>) &#8211; this confirms the supposition that\u00a0he was continually serving as a contract soldier in this unit,\u00a0throughout the entire trip to Donbas.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_062.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18612\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_062.png\" alt=\"Selection_062\" width=\"527\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 4.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/18448-po-sledam-buryata-iz-5-otbr\/\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NikolayMahno\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolay Mahno<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\" target=\"_blank\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a>, translated by Stepan Grishin<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRelated topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div  class=\"six columns\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/siberia-forest-fires-have-burnt-the-tanks-of-the-russian-5th-armored-brigade-near-debaltseve\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Siberia Forest Fires\u2019 in Buryatia Have Burnt the Tanks of the Russian 5th Armored Brigade Near Debaltseve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/11974-pozhary-v-buryatyy-sozhgly-tanky-5-j-otbr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18676 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/4-id4628-03-642x336.jpg\" alt=\"4-id4628-03-642x336\" width=\"642\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"six columns\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-military-hospitals-as-militants-recreation-places\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Military Hospitals As Militants\u2019 Recreation Places<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/15407-voennye-gospytaly-vs-rf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18677\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/9tgr6sfv6jh8663m45dsb66zsr3546rf.jpg\" alt=\"9tgr6sfv6jh8663m45dsb66zsr3546rf\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n[\/row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers of the InformNapalm international community continue to register facts of the Russian servicemen&#8217;s concealed participation in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":7347,"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":[529,528],"tags":[69,240],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donbas","category-news","tag-donbas","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>&#039;War Buryats of the Russian World&#039;: Russian 5th Tank Brigade in Donbas - InformNapalm.org (English)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/jan12-donbas-buryat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;War Buryats of the Russian World&#039;: Russian 5th Tank Brigade in Donbas - InformNapalm.org (English)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We really do not have many &#039;miners&#039; from Buryatia in Donbas in peaceful times... 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The current investigation\u00a0discloses presence of the 'war Buryats' in Donbas. In particular, our volunteers have tracked the 'tour of duty' of Bair Guroev, a serviceman from the 5th separate tank brigade of the Russian Federation's armed forces.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nDefinitely, many of you can recall high-profile story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/siberia-forest-fires-have-burnt-the-tanks-of-the-russian-5th-armored-brigade-near-debaltseve\/\" target=\"_blank\">burnt Buryat Dorzhy Batomunkuev<\/a>\u00a0from the 'famous' 5th tank brigade (military unit No. 46108, Central Military District, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia). Here is an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/es7M8\">archive<\/a>\u00a0of Batomunkuev's interview to the Russian media 'Novaya Gazeta'.\r\n\r\nCarrying out another open source data investigation, the InformNapalm's volunteers found one more fact of 'hybrid' Buryat tank crewmen's participation in the war of the Kremlin against Ukraine.\r\n\r\nThe 'hero' of our story is <strong>Bair Guroev<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/CH22p\">archive<\/a>) from a small\u00a0village of Ust-Obor (Petrovsk-Zabaykalsk raion,\u00a0Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia).\u00a0This village is dominated by the Buryat community.\r\n\r\nArchives of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/RYig1\" target=\"_blank\">profile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/8XBwt\" target=\"_blank\">album<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/EgRMw\" target=\"_blank\">contacts<\/a>, and\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/AOJKQ\">license plate No.<\/a>\u00a0(<strong>\u0445581\u0445x[75]<\/strong>).<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_053.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18603\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18603\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_053.png\" alt=\"Selection_053\" width=\"415\" height=\"556\" \/><\/a>Bair Guroev casted a lot with Ulan-Ude and service in the Russian army. Taking into account the chronology of the photos, Guroev was enrolled in 2012 (archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/fEMsC\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zkRSa\">2<\/a>).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_054.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18604\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-18604 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_054.png\" alt=\"Selection_054\" width=\"490\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a>Specific badges, equipment and ethnic composition, 'Ulan-Ude' inscription and other points during his service in 2013\u00a0point at the 5th 'Tatsinskaya' separate tank brigade (military unit No. 46108)\r\n\r\n[toggle]\r\n[toggle_item title =\"Archives\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/I91Qo\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/I91Qo,\r\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ztlFN\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/ztlFN<\/a>,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/pMFvc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/pMFvc<\/a>,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3hj7V\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/3hj7V<\/a>,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/mlXoL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/mlXoL<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/O7gQc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/O7gQc<\/a>\r\n\r\n[\/toggle_item]\r\n[\/toggle]\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18605\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_055.png\" alt=\"Selection_055\" width=\"736\" height=\"584\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_056.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18606\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18606\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_056.png\" alt=\"Selection_056\" width=\"585\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nMoreover, a lot of Guroev's contacts also\u00a0come from military unit No. 46108 - please refer to the '<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/k0zjI\">coworkers<\/a>' album.\r\n\r\nNext, Guroev had a little 'civil' period, a kind of vacation, but starting from the second half of 2014 new\u00a0pictures started to appear showing his contract service life in the same unit. (archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/sjcoz\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/V7aQH\">2<\/a>).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_057.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18607\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18607\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_057.png\" alt=\"Selection_057\" width=\"395\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nPeriod between December of 2014 and February of 2015 was the most\u00a0intense. Those days the servicemen were transferred 'on training'. And here comes the most important moment - Guroev uploaded a picture of movement of a equipment convoy with well-known flag of the so-called 'DPR' (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/s28kU\">archive<\/a>).\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_058.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18608\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18608\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_058.png\" alt=\"Selection_058\" width=\"500\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe photo was\u00a0taken by Guroev from his own tank on February 25, 2015. We were able to identify the location where it happened - this is 'Shyrokyi' district of the Ukrainian Donetsk, in front of 'Epitsentr' shopping mall on Lenin avenue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/maps\/@47.9242995,37.7638298,3a,75y,17.41h,79.11t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJTMRqi0Pk2klMjjXU8oi0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\">The exact place<\/a> was found with the help of <strong>Google Street View<\/strong>.\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_045.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18564\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_045.png\" alt=\"Selection_045\" width=\"977\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe pictures also show the tactical sign on a\u00a0vehicle of the pseudo-militants - a 'white square'. Equipment with such sign have been numerously registered in the combat action areas in Ukraine.\r\n\r\n[toggle]\r\n[toggle_item title =\"Additional facts\"]\r\n\r\nA tank with 'N-2200'\u00a0markings by the Russian Railways ('cargo within loading gage'):<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/K46A3\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/archive.is\/K46A3<\/a>\r\nSome photos from February show Russian soldiers without any insignia.\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DtKrQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/DtKrQ<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/SnJFU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/SnJFU<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/og19q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/og19q<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/OW1zt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/OW1zt<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/6YZPC\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.is\/6YZPC<\/a>\r\n\r\n[\/toggle_item]\r\n[\/toggle]\r\n\r\nAfter the 'training' finished in Donbas, the war criminal Bair Guroev continued his service in his native 5th tank brigade at least till the end of summer 2015 (archive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ZnDGp\">1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1sXHN\">2<\/a>). You can see the badge of the military unit No. 46108 on Bair's sleeve in the picture taken on August 30, 2015 (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5DBKz\">archive<\/a>) - this confirms the supposition that\u00a0he was continually serving as a contract soldier in this unit,\u00a0throughout the entire trip to Donbas.\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_062.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18612\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18612\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Selection_062.png\" alt=\"Selection_062\" width=\"527\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 4.0<\/a>)\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/18448-po-sledam-buryata-iz-5-otbr\/\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NikolayMahno\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolay Mahno<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\" target=\"_blank\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a>, translated by Stepan Grishin<\/em>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nRelated topics:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n[col width=\"six\"]\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/siberia-forest-fires-have-burnt-the-tanks-of-the-russian-5th-armored-brigade-near-debaltseve\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Siberia Forest Fires\u2019 in Buryatia Have Burnt the Tanks of the Russian 5th Armored Brigade Near Debaltseve<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/11974-pozhary-v-buryatyy-sozhgly-tanky-5-j-otbr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18676\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-18676 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/4-id4628-03-642x336.jpg\" alt=\"4-id4628-03-642x336\" width=\"642\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n[\/col]\r\n[col width=\"six\"]\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-military-hospitals-as-militants-recreation-places\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Military Hospitals As Militants\u2019 Recreation Places<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/15407-voennye-gospytaly-vs-rf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18677\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18677\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/9tgr6sfv6jh8663m45dsb66zsr3546rf.jpg\" alt=\"9tgr6sfv6jh8663m45dsb66zsr3546rf\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\r\n[\/col]\r\n[\/row]","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7359,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions\/7359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}