{"id":8181,"date":"2016-03-31T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2016-03-31T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:21:13","slug":"syrian-dividends-291st-artillery-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/syrian-dividends-291st-artillery-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Dividends of Russian Army 291st Artillery Brigade Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It has been three months since our team published the results of OSINT research that confirmed Russian artillery units\u2019 participation in the Syrian military campaign: <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec06-artillery-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">East Is a Delicate Matter: 29 Servicemen from 291st Artillery Brigade in Syria<\/a>. After the publication, we saw another proof of our results: social profiles of the Russian soldiers mentioned there started to disappear quickly. But it seems the Russians did not learn the lesson, and three months later we see again something interesting posted by three of those soldiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id153273271\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitriy Semashkov<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0#9 on our list\u00a0\u2013 the contract soldier who deleted his photos in Syria. However, soon after he updated his profile, bragging about a military award: a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Yh9DO\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Suvorov<\/a>, which he was awarded by the Presidential Order from December 8, 2015. He also uploaded the photo of a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/mIzLK\" target=\"_blank\">new Lada<\/a>, which he could now afford with his Syrian bonus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DS-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DS-1.jpg\" alt=\"DS 1\" width=\"580\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zarplata.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zarplata.jpg\" alt=\"zarplata\" width=\"551\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mudal.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mudal.jpg\" alt=\"mudal\" width=\"668\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lada.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21598\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lada.jpg\" alt=\"lada\" width=\"678\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em> Photo album archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XT7mx\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3lbGJ\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em> Profile archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9R8il\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/e3EWw\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id224033287\" target=\"_blank\">Vanya Zimin<\/a>, #20 on our list \u2013 he also deleted his Syrian photos but soon after he just had to show off his <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wJoVW\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Suvorov<\/a>. He was awarded this medal by the same Order from December 8, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VZ.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21599 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VZ.jpg\" alt=\"VZ\" width=\"548\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/7-31.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21600 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/7-31.jpg\" alt=\"7-31\" width=\"677\" height=\"631\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo album archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DdvG4\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zhj0J\" target=\"_blank\">updated\u00a0<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Profile archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/aMGM5\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/HCB6h\" target=\"_blank\">updated\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id215190748\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandr Karatnik<\/a>,\u00a0#24 on our list \u2013 he tried to clean up his profile but later he uploaded the photo of a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WYbt0\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Zhukov<\/a>, with the same date: December 8, 2015. He also added a somewhat ambiguous comment: \u201cWent to a place you never were, did something you never did\u201d.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AK.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AK.jpg\" alt=\"AK\" width=\"522\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-34.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21603 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-34.jpg\" alt=\"12-34\" width=\"713\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/koomenttttttttt.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21604\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/koomenttttttttt.jpg\" alt=\"koomenttttttttt\" width=\"661\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo album archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1NPxS\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3DdFn\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Profile archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/g0xQi\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nrMSy\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Afterword:<\/strong> Just a few hours after the publication of the original article, two of the three pages discussed here were cleaned up, and the photos deleted. More on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\/posts\/961680243945222\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the 291st Artillery Brigade is among the most infamous military units of the Southern Military District; we have published multiple reports about it in the context of the so-called \u201cRostov &#8211; Ukraine business trips\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is the list of our publications\u00a0about the <\/strong><strong>291st Brigade:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/armed-forces-russian-federation-spotted-along-ukrainian-border-donbas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armed Forces of Russian Federation Spotted along the Ukrainian Border and in Donbas<\/a>,\u00a0August 26, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/identification-units-russian-armed-forces-deployed-fight-eastern-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Units of the Russian Armed Forces Which Have Been Deployed to Fight in Eastern Ukraine<\/a>,\u00a0September 19, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/1714-ydentyfykatsyya-y-vooruzhenye-artylleryjskyh-podrazdelenyj-rossyjskyh-syl-vtorzhenyya\" target=\"_blank\">Identification of the Russian invaders&#8217; artillery units and armaments (RUS, POL),<\/a>,\u00a0September 30, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/291st-artillery-brigades-tour-duty-crimea-donbass\/\" target=\"_blank\">291st artillery brigade\u2019s \u201cTour of duty\u201d from Crimea to Donbass<\/a>,\u00a0November 12, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/7707-rossyya-foto-pozytsyj-artylleryy-vs-rf-obstrelyvavshej-terrytoryyu-ukrayny-v-2014-godu\" target=\"_blank\">Russia. Pictures showing artillery positions firing on the Ukrainian territory in 2014 (RUS, DEU, POL, BEL)<\/a>,\u00a0April 5, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/novorossiya-militant-s-contract-was-finalized-in-military-recruiting-office-of-volgograd-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Novorossiya\u2019 Militant\u2019s Contract Was Finalized in Military Recruiting Office of Volgograd, Russia<\/a>,\u00a0October 7, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russia-began-a-concealed-ground-operation-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Began a Concealed Ground Operation in Syria<\/a>,\u00a0October 29, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec06-artillery-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">East Is a Delicate Matter: 29 Servicemen from 291st Artillery Brigade in Syria<\/a>, December 7, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec18-291-crimes-part1\/\" target=\"_blank\">War Crimes of Russian 291st Brigade in War Against Ukraine. Part 1<\/a>,\u00a0December 18, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec21-291-crimes-part2\/\" target=\"_blank\">War Crimes of Russian 291st Brigade in War Against Ukraine. Part 2<\/a>,\u00a0December 21, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article uses the original OSINT research by the international volunteer group <strong>InformNapalm.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">CC BY 4.0 \u2013 <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/21534-sirijskie-dividendy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Original article<\/span><\/a> written by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\" target=\"_blank\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a><\/strong>, translated by Oksana Panchuk. Upon reuse of the material, an active link to the author and our project is desirable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been three months since our team published the results of OSINT research that confirmed Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8183,"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":[528,531],"tags":[14,498,513],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-syria","tag-291-th-artillery-brigade","tag-russian","tag-syria"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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After the publication, we saw another proof of our results: social profiles of the Russian soldiers mentioned there started to disappear quickly. But it seems the Russians did not learn the lesson, and three months later we see again something interesting posted by three of those soldiers.<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id153273271\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitriy Semashkov<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0#9 on our list\u00a0\u2013 the contract soldier who deleted his photos in Syria. However, soon after he updated his profile, bragging about a military award: a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Yh9DO\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Suvorov<\/a>, which he was awarded by the Presidential Order from December 8, 2015. He also uploaded the photo of a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/mIzLK\" target=\"_blank\">new Lada<\/a>, which he could now afford with his Syrian bonus.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DS-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21596\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DS-1.jpg\" alt=\"DS 1\" width=\"580\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zarplata.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21606\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zarplata.jpg\" alt=\"zarplata\" width=\"551\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mudal.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21597\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mudal.jpg\" alt=\"mudal\" width=\"668\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lada.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21598\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lada.jpg\" alt=\"lada\" width=\"678\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<em> Photo album archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XT7mx\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3lbGJ\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a><\/em>\r\n<em> Profile archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9R8il\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/e3EWw\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a><\/em>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id224033287\" target=\"_blank\">Vanya Zimin<\/a>, #20 on our list \u2013 he also deleted his Syrian photos but soon after he just had to show off his <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wJoVW\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Suvorov<\/a>. He was awarded this medal by the same Order from December 8, 2015.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VZ.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21599\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21599 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VZ.jpg\" alt=\"VZ\" width=\"548\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/7-31.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21600\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21600 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/7-31.jpg\" alt=\"7-31\" width=\"677\" height=\"631\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<em>Photo album archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DdvG4\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zhj0J\" target=\"_blank\">updated\u00a0<\/a><\/em>\r\n<em>Profile archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/aMGM5\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/HCB6h\" target=\"_blank\">updated\u00a0<\/a><\/em>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id215190748\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandr Karatnik<\/a>,\u00a0#24 on our list \u2013 he tried to clean up his profile but later he uploaded the photo of a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WYbt0\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Zhukov<\/a>, with the same date: December 8, 2015. He also added a somewhat ambiguous comment: \u201cWent to a place you never were, did something you never did\u201d. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AK.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21602\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AK.jpg\" alt=\"AK\" width=\"522\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-34.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21603\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21603 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-34.jpg\" alt=\"12-34\" width=\"713\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/koomenttttttttt.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21604\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/koomenttttttttt.jpg\" alt=\"koomenttttttttt\" width=\"661\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a>\r\n<em>Photo album archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1NPxS\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3DdFn\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\r\n<em>Profile archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/g0xQi\" target=\"_blank\">old<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nrMSy\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Afterword:<\/strong> Just a few hours after the publication of the original article, two of the three pages discussed here were cleaned up, and the photos deleted. More on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\/posts\/961680243945222\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIt is worth noting that the 291st Artillery Brigade is among the most infamous military units of the Southern Military District; we have published multiple reports about it in the context of the so-called \u201cRostov - Ukraine business trips\u201d.\r\n\r\n<strong>Here is the list of our publications\u00a0about the <\/strong><strong>291st Brigade:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/armed-forces-russian-federation-spotted-along-ukrainian-border-donbas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armed Forces of Russian Federation Spotted along the Ukrainian Border and in Donbas<\/a>,\u00a0August 26, 2014<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/identification-units-russian-armed-forces-deployed-fight-eastern-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Units of the Russian Armed Forces Which Have Been Deployed to Fight in Eastern Ukraine<\/a>,\u00a0September 19, 2014<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/1714-ydentyfykatsyya-y-vooruzhenye-artylleryjskyh-podrazdelenyj-rossyjskyh-syl-vtorzhenyya\" target=\"_blank\">Identification of the Russian invaders' artillery units and armaments (RUS, POL),<\/a>,\u00a0September 30, 2014<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/291st-artillery-brigades-tour-duty-crimea-donbass\/\" target=\"_blank\">291st artillery brigade\u2019s \u201cTour of duty\u201d from Crimea to Donbass<\/a>,\u00a0November 12, 2014<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/7707-rossyya-foto-pozytsyj-artylleryy-vs-rf-obstrelyvavshej-terrytoryyu-ukrayny-v-2014-godu\" target=\"_blank\">Russia. Pictures showing artillery positions firing on the Ukrainian territory in 2014 (RUS, DEU, POL, BEL)<\/a>,\u00a0April 5, 2015<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/novorossiya-militant-s-contract-was-finalized-in-military-recruiting-office-of-volgograd-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Novorossiya\u2019 Militant\u2019s Contract Was Finalized in Military Recruiting Office of Volgograd, Russia<\/a>,\u00a0October 7, 2015<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russia-began-a-concealed-ground-operation-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Began a Concealed Ground Operation in Syria<\/a>,\u00a0October 29, 2015<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec06-artillery-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">East Is a Delicate Matter: 29 Servicemen from 291st Artillery Brigade in Syria<\/a>, December 7, 2015<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec18-291-crimes-part1\/\" target=\"_blank\">War Crimes of Russian 291st Brigade in War Against Ukraine. Part 1<\/a>,\u00a0December 18, 2015<\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec21-291-crimes-part2\/\" target=\"_blank\">War Crimes of Russian 291st Brigade in War Against Ukraine. Part 2<\/a>,\u00a0December 21, 2015<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<em>This article uses the original OSINT research by the international volunteer group <strong>InformNapalm.<\/strong>\r\n<\/em>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">CC BY 4.0 \u2013 <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/21534-sirijskie-dividendy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Original article<\/span><\/a> written by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\" target=\"_blank\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a><\/strong>, translated by Oksana Panchuk. Upon reuse of the material, an active link to the author and our project is desirable.<\/span><\/p>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","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=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}