{"id":9885,"date":"2016-12-09T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=9885"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:42:45","slug":"secret-losses-russian-gru-special-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/secret-losses-russian-gru-special-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSecret Losses\u201d of Russian GRU Special Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On November 11, 2016 \u00a0one of Russian provincial newspapers \u201cRodnikovyi prospect\u201d published an <a href=\"http:\/\/rpnews.ru\/2016\/11\/16\/\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0434\u0447\u0438\u043a-\u043d\u0435-\u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c-\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0434\u0447\u0438\u043a\/\">article<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">about the death of a reconnaissance officer Sergey Pechalnov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The interview with the parents of the dead officer tells about Sergey\u2019s service in the Main Intelligence Directorate\u2019s special forces and about the participation of Senior Lieutenant Pechalnov in the military operation in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The newspaper reports that Sergey was killed as a result of a mine explosion in June 2016 in Syria. He and his comrade-in-arms were transported to Moscow, to Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute. However, even with the induced coma, the doctors could not save the wounded soldiers. On June 17, 2016, Sergey Pechalnov was buried in his homeland, in the village of Mikhailovskoe, Rodnikovskiy Rayon, Ivanovskaya Oblast (Russia). Besides this article, there were no other comments on the so called heroism of this soldier, neither by the Russian Ministry of Defense, nor by Russian media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3-1-696x617.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"229\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-280x420.jpg\" width=\"163\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the interview with the father of the officer, Aleksandr, it becomes evident that the name of the second person struck by the mine was Oleg Arhireev. Ruslan Leviev has already <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/citeam.org\/russian-special-operations-forces-secret-losses-in-syria\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a text about Arhireev in August 2016. In particular, it was said that captain Oleg Arhireev was killed in action on June 9, 2016. Therefore, Oleg served in the same unit with Sergey Pechalnov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Arhireev.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the newsfeed of the social network <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/5BAPv\">profile<\/a> of Sergey Pechalnov\u2019s wife Victoria there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/INwnS\">picture<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0of a memorial with a memorial plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pamyatnik.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This memorial is probably installed on the territory of the military unit 92154, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/special-operations-forces-analysis-situation-senezh-special-operations-center\/\">Senezh Special Purpose Center<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is located in the town of Solnechnogorsk in Moscow Oblast. The is suggested not only by the fact that the surrounding buildings look like barracks, but also by the last names of other servicemen commemorated with this memorial:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/suslov-grave2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Sergey Borisovich Suslov. Pictures of his grave with the date of death June 14, 2014, are also included in the CIT report on dead servicemen of Main Intelligence Directorate\u2019s special forces. Sergey Suslov was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. Ruslan Leviev assumes that the death of this serviceman was related to Russian military operations in Donbas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2. Lieutenant-Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kononov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/kononov-aleksandr-ivanovich\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/kononov-aleksandr-ivanovich\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Died on August 12, 2014. He lived in Solnechnogorsk and served in the Senezh Special Purpose Center. He was posthumously awarded with the title of Hero of Russia. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warheroes.ru\/hero\/hero.asp?Hero_id=21655\">official information<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0he was killed in Dagestan. We should not exclude the possibility that losses in Ukraine are masqueraded as results of special operations in different areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Kononov-251x300.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/640x512-1.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Lieutenant of Main Intelligence Directorate Aleksandr Zharov. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/666_mancer\/status\/537964558477180928\">Killed on August 1, 2014<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/B3c76HoCIAE0ju_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are followed by Russian Special Operations Forces servicemen killed in Syria, as also mentioned in the CIT report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Maksim Aleksandrovich Sorochenko. Died on November 19, 2015. Awarded an Order of Kutuzov posthumously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Fyodor Vladimirovich Zhuravlyov has the same date of death as Sorochenko, he was also killed in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sorochenko-grave1.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"209\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ZHuravlev.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pechalnov and Arhireev, who were killed in Syria in June 2016, are listed last. The fact that Sergey Pechalnov was buried in his home village, and not in the Solnechnogorsk cemetery, where all lost Spetsnaz troops are usually buried, was probably the reason why the fact of this death remained unknown for a long time. The newspaper article about Sergey ends with a very reasonable question addressed to the Russian higher military command, which keeps denying the fact of participation of Russian military in foreign conflicts:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\">\n<div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">&#8230;Not so long ago Russian Ministry of Defense announced a tender process to produce more than ten thousand medals \u201cFor military operation in Syria\u201d. They will be given to those who are lucky to come back alive. What will happen to those of our guys who died? Will anybody know about them? Will anybody remember the heroes, who gave away their lives in a war during the time of peace?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Original by<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\">\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victory Krm<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Translated by Maksym Sviezhentsev<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by Max Alginin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8997 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"InformNapalm_logo_05\" width=\"134\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a>\u00a0(CC BY) Information specially prepared for <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/\"><strong><em>InformNapalm.org<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em><strong> site, an active link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We call on our readers to actively share our publications on social networks. By making investigation materials public, we can turn the tide of information and combat confrontation<\/strong><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11, 2016 \u00a0one of Russian provincial newspapers \u201cRodnikovyi prospect\u201d published an article\u00a0about the death of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9888,"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":[529,528,531,532],"tags":[91,709],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donbas","category-news","category-syria","category-world","tag-gru","tag-senezh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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He and his comrade-in-arms were transported to Moscow, to Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute. However, even with the induced coma, the doctors could not save the wounded soldiers. On June 17, 2016, Sergey Pechalnov was buried in his homeland, in the village of Mikhailovskoe, Rodnikovskiy Rayon, Ivanovskaya Oblast (Russia). Besides this article, there were no other comments on the so called heroism of this soldier, neither by the Russian Ministry of Defense, nor by Russian media.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3-1-696x617.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"229\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-280x420.jpg\" width=\"163\" height=\"241\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the interview with the father of the officer, Aleksandr, it becomes evident that the name of the second person struck by the mine was Oleg Arhireev. Ruslan Leviev has already <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/citeam.org\/russian-special-operations-forces-secret-losses-in-syria\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a text about Arhireev in August 2016. In particular, it was said that captain Oleg Arhireev was killed in action on June 9, 2016. Therefore, Oleg served in the same unit with Sergey Pechalnov.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Arhireev.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the newsfeed of the social network <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/5BAPv\">profile<\/a> of Sergey Pechalnov\u2019s wife Victoria there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/INwnS\">picture<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0of a memorial with a memorial plate.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pamyatnik.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This memorial is probably installed on the territory of the military unit 92154, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/special-operations-forces-analysis-situation-senezh-special-operations-center\/\">Senezh Special Purpose Center<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is located in the town of Solnechnogorsk in Moscow Oblast. The is suggested not only by the fact that the surrounding buildings look like barracks, but also by the last names of other servicemen commemorated with this memorial:<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/suslov-grave2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"235\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Sergey Borisovich Suslov. Pictures of his grave with the date of death June 14, 2014, are also included in the CIT report on dead servicemen of Main Intelligence Directorate\u2019s special forces. Sergey Suslov was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. Ruslan Leviev assumes that the death of this serviceman was related to Russian military operations in Donbas.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2. Lieutenant-Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kononov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/kononov-aleksandr-ivanovich\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/kononov-aleksandr-ivanovich\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Died on August 12, 2014. He lived in Solnechnogorsk and served in the Senezh Special Purpose Center. He was posthumously awarded with the title of Hero of Russia. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warheroes.ru\/hero\/hero.asp?Hero_id=21655\">official information<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0he was killed in Dagestan. We should not exclude the possibility that losses in Ukraine are masqueraded as results of special operations in different areas.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Kononov-251x300.jpg\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/640x512-1.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"221\" \/>\r\n<ol start=\"3\">\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Lieutenant of Main Intelligence Directorate Aleksandr Zharov. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/666_mancer\/status\/537964558477180928\">Killed on August 1, 2014<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/B3c76HoCIAE0ju_.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are followed by Russian Special Operations Forces servicemen killed in Syria, as also mentioned in the CIT report.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Maksim Aleksandrovich Sorochenko. Died on November 19, 2015. Awarded an Order of Kutuzov posthumously.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Fyodor Vladimirovich Zhuravlyov has the same date of death as Sorochenko, he was also killed in Syria.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sorochenko-grave1.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"209\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ZHuravlev.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"206\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pechalnov and Arhireev, who were killed in Syria in June 2016, are listed last. The fact that Sergey Pechalnov was buried in his home village, and not in the Solnechnogorsk cemetery, where all lost Spetsnaz troops are usually buried, was probably the reason why the fact of this death remained unknown for a long time. The newspaper article about Sergey ends with a very reasonable question addressed to the Russian higher military command, which keeps denying the fact of participation of Russian military in foreign conflicts:<\/span>\r\n\r\n[su_quote]...Not so long ago Russian Ministry of Defense announced a tender process to produce more than ten thousand medals \u201cFor military operation in Syria\u201d. They will be given to those who are lucky to come back alive. What will happen to those of our guys who died? Will anybody know about them? Will anybody remember the heroes, who gave away their lives in a war during the time of peace?[\/su_quote]\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Original by<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\">\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victory Krm<\/span><\/i><\/a>\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Translated by Maksym Sviezhentsev<\/span><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Edited by Max Alginin<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-8997 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"InformNapalm_logo_05\" width=\"134\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a>\u00a0(CC BY) Information specially prepared for <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/\"><strong><em>InformNapalm.org<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em><strong> site, an active link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>We call on our readers to actively share our publications on social networks. 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