{"id":9745,"date":"2016-11-28T07:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T07:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:27:12","slug":"russian-scout-7th-military-base-given-away-bull-terrier-horlivka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-scout-7th-military-base-given-away-bull-terrier-horlivka\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian scout from 7th Military Base given away by Bull Terrier from Horlivka"},"content":{"rendered":"

A career scout with the 7th Russian military base (military unit 09332, Gudauta, occupied Abkhazia, Georgia) who is on a combat mission in the city of Horlivka, Donetsk region of Ukraine, was given away by a bull terrier.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In early October 2016, InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community received a document<\/strong><\/a>, the so-called ration records reflecting the structure and strength of the battalion tactical group (BTG) of the 7th Military Base on the “Rostov-Ukraine mission”. According to our estimates, as of July 7, 2016,\u00a0 288 servicemen (out of 418) of this BTG of the 7th Military Base, being on a combat alert mission in the Rostov region, received food rations. It gave us 130 absentees. So we wondered where the 130 soldiers belonging to BTG were. And after a while we received confirmations for our assumption of their foray to the other side of the border to support illegal armed groups of Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). This is the focus of this OSINT investigation.<\/p>\n

The target of our investigation<\/p>\n

Sergey Finogin<\/p>\n

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Born August 2, 1990, originally from Alexandrovsk, Perm Oblast.<\/p>\n

He did his compulsory military service in 2009 in the Russian Air Force\/Air Defense. Since 2014 he\u2019s been a contract serviceman of the 7th Russian Military Base (military unit 09332, Gudauta, occupied Abkhazia, Georgia). Presumably, he serves in the field reconnaissance company of the reconnaissance battalion or in the reconnaissance platoon of the 2nd infantry battalion.<\/p>\n

Social network accounts: using the false first name and the surname of his mother, he calls himself Ilya Kuznetsov<\/strong> – on VK<\/a>\u00a0(archived\u00a0profile<\/a>,\u00a0photo album<\/a>,\u00a0contacts<\/a>), declared place of residence is Horlivka. There are also abandoned accounts under the name Sergey Finogin – VK2,<\/a> OK1,<\/a> OK2<\/a> with residence in Aleksandrovsk, Perm Oblast, Russia.<\/p>\n

Judging by the photos posted by Finogin, his combat mission to Donbas began in August 2016. The last photo from the home station of the 7th Military Base in Gudauta was posted on July 20<\/a>. A little earlier, on June 30,<\/a> photos were posted from the base camp of the Rostov contingent around Kadamovsky training range. \u00a0From then on Finogin posted pictures from the mission, and we believe he is still there.<\/p>\n

Photo #1,<\/a> posted on September 4, 2016, shows Finogin together with two militants, all three of them wearing non-standard uniforms.<\/p>\n

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Photo #2<\/a>, posted on November 13, 2016, shows Finogin posing with a “dashing” militant in a fur hat.<\/p>\n

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On the photo #3<\/a>, posted on November 10, 2016, Finogin is walking a bull terrier. \u00a0We identified the spot: Gorky Municipal Park in Horlivka<\/a> with distinctive benches and cracked pavement.<\/p>\n

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In his album, there are also other pictures with the Horlivka bull terrier. They belong to the period from August to November 2016, among them there is the photo #4,<\/a> posted on November 5. It shows Finogin posing in the standard-issue uniform of the Russian Army (“digital camo”) with a DPR flag shoulder patch.<\/p>\n

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Photo #5<\/a> posted on October 27, 2016 shows Finogin with a young lady.<\/p>\n

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We easily identified the lady: she turned out to be a resident of the occupied Horlivka, a single mother Yuliya Abayeva,<\/strong> born January 15, 1991 personal ID code<\/a> – 3325200224. She resides at 22 Olenina st, apt. 39. Presumably, a medic working at City Hospital #2. Social network accounts:\u00a0archives: <\/a>VK (profile<\/a>,\u00a0photo album<\/a>,contacts<\/a>), OK<\/a> (\u00a0profile<\/a>,\u00a0photo album<\/a>,\u00a0contacts<\/a>). It is noteworthy that among Abayeva’s friends we found one Oksana Kuznetsova,<\/a> the mother of Finogin, which indicates the seriousness of his relationship with the young lady from Horlivka.<\/p>\n

This is not the first “military romance” between an occupier and a citizen of Ukraine. Read more love stories<\/strong> in previous publications of InformNapalm:<\/em><\/p>\n

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