{"id":9129,"date":"2016-09-20T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2016-09-20T20:42:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:42:51","slug":"russian-tigr-afvs-136th-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-tigr-afvs-136th-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo hunt for Russian Tiger in Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"

InformNapalm international volunteer community continues identification of unique weapons and equipment, seen in Donbas and included in the arsenal of the Russian-terrorist troops. This work is an important aspect of collecting evidence of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine. Recently, InformNapalm investigators demonstrated how <\/strong>Selfies with T-90A tanks<\/a> in Donbas <\/strong>roamed from accounts of Russian tank crews into accounts of terrorists on social networks. Our investigation had identified a main battle tank (MBT) of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army from Dagestan. Today, as part of another investigation, we are having a look at a GAZ Tigr infantry mobility vehicle\u00a0(IMV) of a reconnaissance company from the same 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade. This type of equipment has also been noticed being in service with Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

New evidence has been found in a photo album of a 43-year-old Russian mercenary\u00a0Oleg Rakhimov<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(archived\u00a0account<\/a>,\u00a0photo album<\/a>,\u00a0contacts<\/a>), who came all the way from the Altai region of Russia to spread the so-called \u201cRussian world\u201d in Donbas. He has posted in his account a lot of interesting photos with modern Russian weapons and equipment deployed to Donbas. Among his photos there is also\u00a0a\u00a0picture<\/a>\u00a0(archive<\/a>) with a Tigr (GAZ-233014) IMV, posted on March, 16, 2016. It is noteworthy that the door of the Tigr shows a tactical marking familiar to the OSINT-researchers since 2014 – the emblem of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit # 63354, city of Buinaksk and Botlikh village, Dagestan) of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of the Russia.<\/p>\n

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Such IMVs with the tactical markings of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade have repeatedly featured in the InformNapalm investigations before. In February 2015, we published the article \u201cTracking Down A Scout From The 136th Brigade\u201d<\/a>, which also contains photos proving the fact of of a \u201cUkrainian mission\u201d of the combined reconnaissance unit from the 136th Motorized Brigade from Dagestan with similar Tigrs showing the same tactical markings.<\/p>\n

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Tigrs from this Dagestan infantry unit also appeared in other publications, including the article Cops from Chechnya on a \u201cUkrainian mission<\/a>“, where Chechen Kadyrov\u2019s police force fighters pose with such IMV in the background. Although they covered the number plate of the vehicle on the photo, they forgot to get rid of the tactical marking of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade on the vehicle door.<\/p>\n

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It is worth reminding, that Russian invaders actively used Tigr IMVs for blocking and assaulting the Ukrainian military facilities during the occupation operation in the Crimea. The video below shows the unique footage of the Tigrs convoy movement from Kazach’ya Bay in Sevastopol in early March 2014.<\/p>\n