{"id":8499,"date":"2016-06-21T21:38:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2016-06-21T21:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:39:32","slug":"part-3-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/part-3-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Propagandists Hacked. Part 3. The Shelling of Nikishyne"},"content":{"rendered":"

International volunteer community InformNapalm<\/a> continues to publish its investigations on the basis of information provided to us exclusively by the Ukrainian cyber alliance. In early June, the alliance of Ukrainian hacker groups FalconsFlame<\/a>, Trinity<\/a> and Ruh8<\/a>\u00a0provided our volunteer investigators with a vast array of data extracted from hacked mail boxes and cloud storages of Russian journalists and propagandists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new investigation examines videos stored in the <\/span>oblako@mail.ru <\/strong>\u00a0cloud storage (in a folder titled <\/span>“Industrial area near Debaltseve\u2026 Retaliation fire\u201d<\/strong>) of Sergey Zenin, a propagandist in the service of state-owned Channel One of the Russian Federation. We have 25 videos of a mortar battery (operated by terrorists of the so-called Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR)) shelling Nikishyne in Donetsk Region of Ukraine. We have compiled the most informative videos into one file and uploaded it to Youtube<\/a>. The original videos will be submitted to the Military Prosecutor’s Office and SBU (the Ukrainian Security Service). The videos were made with a photo camera (MotionJPEG; image resolution: 640*480) The videos were probably shot in January 2015. We can see a three-piece 120mm mortar battery operated by non-professional combatants of various ages wearing mismatched military out\ufb01ts. They are commanded by a militant in a winter camouflage suit and rubber overshoes, nicknamed “Alabay”. There are no communication or battery fire control devices in sight (and none in the shelter, either; only a crumpled map). There are virtually no target adjustment or fire correction orders given, it looks like they are indiscriminately targeting large areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Establishing the location and the direction of fire<\/h2>\n

The battery was deployed in an industrial area located to the east of Kumshatske, a rural settlement in Donetsk Region. Exact coordinates<\/a>\u00a0and the direction of fire were identified by analyzing the geotagging of a number of videoframes (geotagging courtesy of 5urpher<\/a>).\"Selection_038\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The red arrow indicates the probable direction of mortar fire, pointing to the direction of Nikishyne, a village located three kilometers from the industrial area.<\/p>\n

Below is the aforementioned compilation of the 25 videos showing the shelling of Nikishyne by the terrorists’ mortar battery.<\/p>\n