{"id":9092,"date":"2016-09-10T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T18:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2016-09-10T20:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:22:15","slug":"uses-15th-motorized-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/uses-15th-motorized-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Uses Servicemen of the 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade of Peacekeeping Forces in Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volunteers of the international community InformNapalm have collected information from open sources that proves the presence of Russian servicemen of the 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of peacekeeping forces in the occupied territory of Ukraine. The presence of servicemen from this brigade might be an evidence of the Kremlin\u2019s plans to further escalate the conflict in Donbas and to legalize its \u201cpeacekeepers\u201d after enlarging the occupied zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a monitoring of social networks, InformNapalm investigators came across a Russian contract soldier assigned to one of the illegal military formation of “Novorossiya” that operate in Ukraine in the interest of Russia. The following information about the soldier has been collected.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Anatoliy Konstantinovich Kashyrtsev<\/strong> is 24 years old (his date of birth, presumably, is August 26, 1992), was born in the village of Kvitok, Tayshetsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. He uses a call sign “Motey<\/strong>“; however, it did not prevent us from identifying him. He was born into a family with military traditions: his father is Konstantin Kashyrtsev<\/a><\/strong>, a former midshipman of the Russian Pacific Fleet, presumably served on a surface-to-surface missile cruiser Variag; his brother is Vladimir Kashyrtsev<\/a><\/strong>, an officer of the Russian armed forces, serves in the Russian Far East.<\/p>\n

\"portret\"<\/a>In 2013-2014, Anatoliy Kashyrtsev served as a conscript in the 649th Regiment of the 60th Rocket Division of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (military unit 93412, town of Svetly, Tatishchevsky District, Saratov Oblast)<\/em>.\u00a0During the service, he graduated from the communications training center. In 2014, he signed a service contract and in the rank of a sergeant<\/a> was sent to the 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of peacekeeping forces (military unit 90600, Roshchinsky training range, Volzhsky District, Samara Oblast)<\/em> of the Central Military District.<\/p>\n

Since April of 2015, he has been in the illegal armed groups in Donbas. Here are his web pages in social networks:\u00a0“VK<\/a>” (archives of profile<\/a>, photo album<\/a>, contacts<\/a>); “VK-2<\/a>” (archives of profile<\/a>, photo album<\/a>); “OK-1<\/a>“; \u00a0“OK-2<\/a>“; \u00a0“OK-3<\/a>“; \u00a0“OK-4<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s track a \u201cservice record\u201d of Kashurtsev by using pictures that he posted on social media.
\nA serviceman of the 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Peacekeeping Brigade<\/strong>, fall-winter of 2014<\/a> in Roshchinsky garrison, Samara Oblast:<\/p>\n

\"157\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"135\"<\/a>\"132\"<\/a>\"128\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Military training before the deployment to Ukraine \u2013 <\/strong>February, 2015<\/a>.\u00a0Kashyrtsev and other servicemen of his brigade were trained for combat at a training range in Kazan Oblast.<\/p>\n

\"100\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"93\"<\/a> \"110\"<\/a> \"121\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A Ukrainian deployment of Sergeant Kashyrtsev<\/strong> started in April of 2015<\/a>. He might be in Ukraine at the time when this article is being written.<\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"84\"<\/a>\"77\"<\/a>\"75\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"67\"<\/a>\"63\"<\/a>\"36\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Motorized<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20\"<\/a>\"5\"<\/a>\"1<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ok\"<\/a> \"ok2\"<\/a> \"ok3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Studying Kashyrtsev’s social media friends provided some information about his comrades-in-arms from the same 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade \u2013 \u201cveterans\u201d of the war in Donbas and\/or participants of the occupation operation in Crimea:<\/p>\n