{"id":7954,"date":"2016-03-16T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2016-03-20T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T12:32:32","slug":"mar16-donbas-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/mar16-donbas-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Revealed Information about Ammo Supplied to Terrorists in Donbas by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’d like to present you an interesting article<\/a>\u00a0prepared by our friends from the ‘Information Resistance’ group. In its turn, ‘IR’ group thanks\u00a0Andriy\u00a0Donets, officers of the SBU’s counter-espionage department and fighters of ‘Azov’ battalion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any ammunition is\u00a0the key element without which the conduct of combat actions\u00a0is simply impossible. All weapon systems of any caliber and any type serve the\u00a0only purpose – to provide the intended use of munitions – to hit the opponent.<\/p>\n

Bullets and cartridges. What is so special about them? Every soldier has them and all what is needed is that they, if possible, ‘never end’. But long-term combat operations require regular and uninterrupted supply of ammunition. Separatists’ ammunition supply task is handled by the Russian military procurers, as hardly anyone can really claim that the militants have been fighting for two years using the\u00a0‘captured Ukrainian ammunition’.\u00a0The Russians are forced to deliver huge amounts of\u00a0rifle ammunition, because it is the expendable war material. From the very beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine it began to supply ammunition produced in Russia after\u00a01991. And this is not that important if it was caused by dwindling of the Soviet ammunition stockpiles or by negligence of the procurers.<\/p>\n

It is important that this is another element of evidence<\/strong> of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. We offer our readers to get briefly acquainted with a number of materials from 2014-15, including the\u00a0open ones, on the cartridges from the\u00a0Russian ‘military shops’.<\/p>\n

See also: Russian \u2018Military Shops\u2019 in Donbas: TOP-5 Products in February<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For a start, it is worth noting that we go off of the markings on cartridge packaging which apply principles common in both Ukraine and Russia, as they have been used since the Soviet period. The basic data on the crates, which we will discuss below, is the notational conventions on marking the production date and manufacturers.\u00a0This data is written\u00a0on a container in a single line and consists of\u00a0three components: the number of cartridges batch, ammunition production year (last two digits) and conventional digital code of the manufacturer.<\/p>\n

So. July of 2014. The city of Slavyansk is\u00a0liberated\u00a0by the\u00a0Ukrainian soldiers. The footage by\u00a0‘Channel 5’, among various captured ammunition of Girkin’s militants, shows\u00a0a container with\u00a0the Russian newest SPP\u00a0cartridges of caliber 9×39, which is mainly used for ‘Val’ or ‘Vintorez’ rifles. Indeed there are weapons of such caliber in the service of the Ukrainian special forces, but the container in the screenshot is purely Russian. 9×39 SPP (sniper, enhanced penetration) cartridges were\u00a0patented in the Russian Federation in\u00a02006\u00a0and that same year their serial production began.<\/p>\n

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The batch, year and manufacturer are specified on the crate by the M46-07-539 <\/strong>code, where M46\u00a0<\/strong>is the batch No., 07<\/strong>\u00a0refers to the year of production (2007), and\u00a0539\u00a0<\/strong>is the manufacturer code – Tulsk ammunition factory.<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a>Here is how a deactivated 9×39 SPP cartridge looks like.<\/p>\n

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August-September of 2014. Slavyansk’s outskirts. Fighters of the Ukrainian Directorate of Intelligence show the officers of the SBU’s counter-espionage department several trophy containers of 9×39 SP5 cartridges without any markings on crates or cartridges. But we have to say that these cartridges can still be dated by some other characteristics.<\/p>\n

These cartridges could have been\u00a0produced exclusively in Russia, since\u00a0the 9×39 cartridges in bimetallic sleeves<\/span> are made only by\u00a0Klimovsk specialized ammunition plant (previously,\u00a0the factory\u00a0had code\u00a0711) and the period of such production covered about 15 years – from the second half of the 1990s till the end of 2010s. Thus, these cartridges also belong exclusively to\u00a0the post-Soviet period of production.<\/p>\n

See also: TOP-10 Military Gadgets Involved in the Russian Aggression Against Ukraine<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

These are deactivated 9×39 SP5 cartridges with container\u00a0produced by the Klimovsk plant.<\/p>\n

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Besides the special purpose ammunition, the most massively supplied ammo are standard high caliber cartridges, including the 5.45×39 rifle ammo.<\/p>\n

January 15, 2015. The pro-Russian militants attack the Donetsk airport. Semen Pegov, a Russian reporter from ‘Life News’ channel, broadcasts from the territory of the airport and gives on-the-spot comments about the militants’ actions. The link to the video – Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, almost continuously from 3:21 till 3:53, he posed in front\u00a0of the Russian ‘spam can’ with 5.45×39 cartridges with PS bullets\u00a0manufactured by Barnaul Cartridge Plant No.17 in\u00a01993, and it\u00a0obviously in no way could\u00a0be a ‘trophy’ container\u00a0captured from the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n

\"63\"<\/a>Upon closer examination of markings we can find the\u00a0output data of the Russian ammunition manufacturer.<\/p>\n

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Identification mark is\u00a0identification mark, where\u00a0\u041098\u00a0<\/strong>is the batch No.,\u00a093<\/strong>\u00a0refers to the production year (1993) and\u00a017<\/strong>\u00a0is the code of Barnaul\u00a0Cartridge Plant.<\/p>\n

July 14, 2015. Andrey Rodionov, a pro-Russian militant from Sevastopol, uploads a group photo\u00a0to his social profile in VK network. It shows fighters of the ‘Feniks’ detachment (a part of ‘Prizrak’ brigade) ruled by now-deceased Aleksey Mozgovoy.<\/p>\n

\"qwe\"<\/a>Photo<\/a> from Rodionov’s profile (archive<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Apart from Rodionov (the second from the right), the picture shows a crate with 5.45×39\u00a0cartridges which also has similar Russian marking outstanding only\u00a0with the manufacturing batch number. The same 1993 year and\u00a0Barnaul\u00a0Cartridge Plant No. 17, but the batch No. is A66<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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August-September of 2015. Scouts of ‘Azov’ regiment captured a lot of various rifle ammunition in the area of Shyrokyne. There also was modern Russian munition produced in recent years. Below you can find a photo of one of the trophy ammo containers\u00a0with Russian 5.45 cartridges from batch No. A90<\/strong>, manufactured in 1993.<\/p>\n

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This way, based on the abovementioned information, we can make an unambiguous conclusion about the mass supply of the Russian-terrorist forces with\u00a0the modern Russian-made munitions. At the same time the shipments of the 5.45×39 rifle ammo are done all over the perimeter of the conflict zone. In the Luhansk direction (‘LPR’, ‘Feniks’ company) cartridges from\u00a0batch No. A66<\/strong>\u00a0have been\u00a0identified; in Donetsk direction (airport) – A98<\/strong>; Sector M – A90<\/strong>. Taking into account the fact that one batch contains hundreds of thousands of cartridges, it’s hard to imagine\u00a0the giant amounts of ammo shipped by the Russian ‘military shops’.<\/p>\n

Besides the Barnaul 5.45 bullets, the ‘Azov’ fighters have captured Russian ammunition of other types and\u00a0manufacturers. In the photo below you\u00a0can see trophy 5.45×39 cartridge samples:<\/p>\n