{"id":7943,"date":"2016-03-06T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2016-03-17T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T08:44:19","slug":"mar06-war-criminals-15th-peacekeeping-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/mar06-war-criminals-15th-peacekeeping-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Criminals of the 15th \u2018Peacekeeping\u2019 Brigade: Unpublished Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 15th \u2018peacekeeping\u2019 brigade from Samara, is perhaps the most \u2018distinguished\u2019 military unit of the Russian Armed Forces, which is associated with the annexation of the Crimea and with the initial stage of the Russian aggression in the eastern Ukraine. The InformNapalm international volunteer community have more than once presented a convincing evidence of the involvement of \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 from Samara in the war in Donbas. However, InformNapalm\u2019s archives store dozens of other evidence of the military crimes of \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 that have not been published yet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Almost two years have already passed since the Russian military and political leadership unleashed an undeclared war against Ukraine. The provocative actions of the \u2018facade\u2019 separatists from the \u2018Novorossiya\u2019 were ensured not only by the sabotage-reconnaissance special operations units of the Russian Military Intelligence and Special Operations Forces, but also by the powerful shock troops of the Russian Armed Forces deployed on the Russian-Ukrainian border. After the vile \u2018blitzkrieg\u2019 in Crimea, Russia immediately began to concentrate troops in the areas bordering Ukraine \u2013 in Rostov, Voronezh and Belgorod Oblasts. By the end of spring of 2014 the powerful formation of battalion and company task groups from the ground forces of four military districts (Southern, West, Central and East Military Districts), the Airborne Forces and the coastal defense troops (marine brigades and other coast forces of the Russian Navy) had been already grouped. The greatest number of combat tactical groups were concentrated in the regions\u00a0of Rostov Oblast directly adjacent to Donbas, from where the Ukrainian territory was attacked at the early stage of the hidden invasion. Involvement of the Russian Armed Forces into the fighting in Donbas was carried out on regular basis\u00a0in order to resolve the specific combat missions on various directions and turn situation in favor of the separatists. The Russian tactical groups acted with lighting speed using\u00a0the \u2018raid \u2013 setback\u2019 principle: after performing a combat mission in Donbas and turning the situation in favor of the separatists, they immediately pull back troops \u2018over-the-border\u2019.<\/p>\n

The battalion tactical groups of the 15th brigade, with the cynical name \u2018Peacekeeping\u2019 (military unit No. 90600, Roshchinsky garrison in Volzhsky Raion of Samara Oblast),<\/em> of the Russian Central Military District, staffed by the contract soldiers having the greatest experience in combat training were in the vanguard of the Russian invasion forces. After the Crimean events in the spring of 2014, \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 from Samara were aimed at the Kharkiv direction and transferred to Belgorod and Voronezh Oblasts. The \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 waited for the order to invade Ukraine\u00a0for two months, the reason for which would be\u00a0the appearance of a\u00a0new flash-point of separatism in the form of the so-called ‘Kharkiv People\u2019s Republic’. Since the ‘KPR’ project failed miserably, and the whole burden of the military confrontation took place in Donbas, the Samara\u2019s \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 were transferred to the base camp of the Rostov formation\u00a0in the early summer of 2014. This camp was deployed on the border with Ukraine, in the Kamensky Raion of Rostov Oblast, which ensured their operational use on both\u00a0Luhansk and Donetsk directions.<\/p>\n

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After the series of the loud revelations concerning participation of the Samara \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 in the war in Donbas, the Russian military command and intelligence agencies ‘cleaned up\u2019 the leaking\u00a0information sources in the social networks, where the brave \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 left many traces of their participation in the military adventure in Ukraine. Most of the pages of the Russian war criminals were deleted, many pages were cleaned and renamed, but InformNapalm archives store dozens of evidence of their participation in the war in Donbas, which we present you in this article.<\/p>\n