{"id":9955,"date":"2016-12-18T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2016-12-18T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:22:04","slug":"russian-army-conscript-seen-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-army-conscript-seen-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Army conscript seen in Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Russian Army conscript soldiers have not been seen in the Donbas since the battles of Ilovaisk and Debaltseve. But it turns out that some of them were present in the occupied territories in 2016.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the course of monitoring of social media, one militant came to the attention of the InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community. After a detailed study of his profile, he was identified as <strong>Pavel Dykiy<\/strong>, born on 02.02.1992, a <strong>contract serviceman<\/strong> of the Russian <strong>11th Separate Engineer Brigade<\/strong> (military unit 45767, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast, the Southern Military District). Dykiy revealed not only his own presence in the Donbas, but also that of <strong>Alexey Teplykh, <\/strong>a conscript from the same military unit. Both men are war criminals who carried out illegal orders of the Russian senior military command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chronology of the identification<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/k3SOW\">photo<\/a> of Pavel Dykiy with a sleeve insignia of the Somali Battalion on his uniform and another <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/smvTN\">one<\/a>, posted by Pavel in his album called &#8220;DPR&#8221; (Donetsk People\u2019s Republic).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/somali.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shevron-dikij.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a group <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/NNqNh\">photo<\/a> for future identification.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/opoznanie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/zg7u0\">photos<\/a> have a comment with the date when they were taken: &#8220;DPR, 04.24.2016\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dnr-24.04.2016.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chetverodikij.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Analysis of Pavel Dykiy\u2019s profile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To identify a military unit in which Dykiy served, let\u2019s analyze multiple <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/a5Tve\">photos<\/a>, uploaded by him on September 27, 2013. The image shown below was also found in Alexander Tarasov\u2019s (Dykiy\u2019s fellow conscript) profile. Alexander Tarasov uploaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/PGowZ\">photo<\/a> of the two of them a year earlier, on September 30, 2012. This picture was taken in a designated smoking area, at the <strong>military unit 45767, in the town of<\/strong> <strong>Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dikij2013.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Tarasov\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/21ds5\">photo<\/a> from his conscript service time also shows that he served with engineer troops.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ya-ezdiyu-2012.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is Pavel Dykiy in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/lALnT\">pictures<\/a> with Ivan Tsyganov. The pictures were taken in January 2016 at the military unit 45767 barracks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/v-kazarme.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/0zhTi\">photo<\/a> from January 2016 you can see a barracks corridor decorated with Christmas tinsels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06yanvarya2016.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> Ivan Tsyganov and Alexander Tarasov appeared in this investigation only as a link between the war criminals Pavel Dykiy and Alexey Teplykh and the military unit 45767.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are more photos taken in the barracks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"113\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor2.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"113\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor3.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"112\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor1.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of the phone app <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/60U9q\">&#8220;100 days to discharge&#8221;<\/a>, uploaded by Ivan Tsyganov on March 9, 2016, tells us that he was posting his photos in social networks on the same day he was taking them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/100.dnej.do.dembelya.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pavel Dykiy\u2019s membership in the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/d4l57#selection-35725.0-35725.10\">closed VK group<\/a> &#8220;Engineer Troops. Military unit 45767 Kamensk-Shakhtinsky&#8221; <strong>additionally confirms<\/strong> Pavel\u2019s affiliation to this military unit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But let\u2019s return to the pictures signed &#8220;DPR, 04.24.2016\u201d in the album of \u00a0Russian contract soldier Pavel Dykiy.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tri1.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the militants <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/VcNWu\">in the photo<\/a> wears a balaclava. After conducting a comparative analysis of brow arches, shape of the chin, nose and eyes, as well as the unique dentition (seen in his <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/JbBCl\">smile<\/a> under the balaclava), we identified the <strong>conscript<\/strong> <em>Alexey Teplykh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see who liked this photo.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lajk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lajk-lajk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>Nine people liked it, including Alexey Teplykh. It also confirms that the identification has been done correctly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By moving a slider on the next photo from left to right, you can compare yourself the person&#8217;s face on the left, with the face of a militant wearing a mask from the group picture, mentioned a moment ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sravnenie.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"266\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sravnenie1.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a few more photos to compare his face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"117\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mashina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22.jpg\" width=\"121\" height=\"117\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mashina.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snova.lybitsya.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"117\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stena.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"117\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/troe.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Alexey Teplykh<\/em>, born 03.13.1995, is a conscript, who served in the military unit 45767, in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky. The term of his service ended on <strong>July 2, 2016<\/strong> \u2013 on that day Teplykh posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/JVb0P\">screenshot of the phone app<\/a> that counts down days to a military discharge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dembel-aleksej.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/rmItp\">photo<\/a> of both <em>Alexey Teplykh<\/em> and Ivan Tsyganov, who was mentioned above, bridged the gap in the identification.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/teplyhTSiganov.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since 2008, the <em>term of conscript service<\/em> in Russia has been one year. This term is built into the phone application &#8220;Discharge-meter&#8221;, which is used by many conscripts. It means that <strong>Alexey Teplykh<\/strong> began his conscript service in July 2015. In April 2016, he was in occupied Ukrainian territory and was photographed with militants of the DPR or other Russian servicemen.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, more proof of Russian conscripts conducting &#8220;military exercises&#8221; under the guidance of more experienced Russian contract soldiers (such as Pavel Dykiy) in the occupied Donbas has been found.<\/p>\n<p>Note, that it takes about 5 hours by car to get from the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky to Ukrainian Donetsk and only an hour and a half to Luhansk. It is easy to bring Russian conscripts to the frontline every day to gain combat experience. Also, it easy to quickly return them to their home bases in Russia crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border through points which are under full control of the Russian Army. Should any casualties occur \u2013 they can be written off as an accident during a training exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Prepared by <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VidalSorokin\">Vidal Sorokin<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Evgeniy Kalashnik<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><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=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>(CC BY 4.0) This information has been specially prepared for\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/\"><em>InformNapalm.org<\/em><\/a><em>, an active link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further public use of the material.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Army conscript soldiers have not been seen in the Donbas since the battles of Ilovaisk and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9958,"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],"tags":[741,69,167],"class_list":["post-9955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donbas","category-news","tag-11th-separate-engineer-brigade","tag-donbas","tag-russian-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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But it turns out that some of them were present in the occupied territories in 2016.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn the course of monitoring of social media, one militant came to the attention of the InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community. After a detailed study of his profile, he was identified as <strong>Pavel Dykiy<\/strong>, born on 02.02.1992, a <strong>contract serviceman<\/strong> of the Russian <strong>11th Separate Engineer Brigade<\/strong> (military unit 45767, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast, the Southern Military District). Dykiy revealed not only his own presence in the Donbas, but also that of <strong>Alexey Teplykh, <\/strong>a conscript from the same military unit. Both men are war criminals who carried out illegal orders of the Russian senior military command.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chronology of the identification<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nHere is a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/k3SOW\">photo<\/a> of Pavel Dykiy with a sleeve insignia of the Somali Battalion on his uniform and another <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/smvTN\">one<\/a>, posted by Pavel in his album called \"DPR\" (Donetsk People\u2019s Republic).\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/somali.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shevron-dikij.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nHere is a group <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/NNqNh\">photo<\/a> for future identification.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/opoznanie.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nThese <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/zg7u0\">photos<\/a> have a comment with the date when they were taken: \"DPR, 04.24.2016\u201d.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dnr-24.04.2016.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chetverodikij.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<strong>Analysis of Pavel Dykiy\u2019s profile<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTo identify a military unit in which Dykiy served, let\u2019s analyze multiple <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/a5Tve\">photos<\/a>, uploaded by him on September 27, 2013. The image shown below was also found in Alexander Tarasov\u2019s (Dykiy\u2019s fellow conscript) profile. Alexander Tarasov uploaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/PGowZ\">photo<\/a> of the two of them a year earlier, on September 30, 2012. This picture was taken in a designated smoking area, at the <strong>military unit 45767, in the town of<\/strong> <strong>Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dikij2013.jpg\" \/><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAlexander Tarasov\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/21ds5\">photo<\/a> from his conscript service time also shows that he served with engineer troops.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ya-ezdiyu-2012.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nHere is Pavel Dykiy in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/lALnT\">pictures<\/a> with Ivan Tsyganov. The pictures were taken in January 2016 at the military unit 45767 barracks.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/v-kazarme.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nIn this <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/0zhTi\">photo<\/a> from January 2016 you can see a barracks corridor decorated with Christmas tinsels.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06yanvarya2016.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> Ivan Tsyganov and Alexander Tarasov appeared in this investigation only as a link between the war criminals Pavel Dykiy and Alexey Teplykh and the military unit 45767.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\r\nThere are more photos taken in the barracks:\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"113\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor2.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"113\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor3.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"112\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/koridor1.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"113\" \/>\r\n\r\nA screenshot of the phone app <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/60U9q\">\"100 days to discharge\"<\/a>, uploaded by Ivan Tsyganov on March 9, 2016, tells us that he was posting his photos in social networks on the same day he was taking them.\r\n\r\n<em>\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/100.dnej.do.dembelya.jpg\" \/><\/em>\r\n\r\nPavel Dykiy\u2019s membership in the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/d4l57#selection-35725.0-35725.10\">closed VK group<\/a> \"Engineer Troops. Military unit 45767 Kamensk-Shakhtinsky\" <strong>additionally confirms<\/strong> Pavel\u2019s affiliation to this military unit.\r\n\r\n<strong>But let\u2019s return to the pictures signed \"DPR, 04.24.2016\u201d in the album of \u00a0Russian contract soldier Pavel Dykiy.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tri1.jpg\" \/><\/strong>\r\n\r\nOne of the militants <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/VcNWu\">in the photo<\/a> wears a balaclava. After conducting a comparative analysis of brow arches, shape of the chin, nose and eyes, as well as the unique dentition (seen in his <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/JbBCl\">smile<\/a> under the balaclava), we identified the <strong>conscript<\/strong> <em>Alexey Teplykh<\/em>.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s see who liked this photo.<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lajk.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lajk-lajk.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>Nine people liked it, including Alexey Teplykh. It also confirms that the identification has been done correctly.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBy moving a slider on the next photo from left to right, you can compare yourself the person's face on the left, with the face of a militant wearing a mask from the group picture, mentioned a moment ago.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sravnenie.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"266\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sravnenie1.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"266\" \/>\r\n\r\nThere are a few more photos to compare his face.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"117\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mashina.jpg\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22.jpg\" width=\"121\" height=\"117\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mashina.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stena.jpg\"><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snova.lybitsya.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"117\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/stena.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"117\" \/><img class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/troe.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<em>Alexey Teplykh<\/em>, born 03.13.1995, is a conscript, who served in the military unit 45767, in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky. The term of his service ended on <strong>July 2, 2016<\/strong> \u2013 on that day Teplykh posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/JVb0P\">screenshot of the phone app<\/a> that counts down days to a military discharge.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dembel-aleksej.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/rmItp\">photo<\/a> of both <em>Alexey Teplykh<\/em> and Ivan Tsyganov, who was mentioned above, bridged the gap in the identification.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/teplyhTSiganov.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\nSince 2008, the <em>term of conscript service<\/em> in Russia has been one year. This term is built into the phone application \"Discharge-meter\", which is used by many conscripts. It means that <strong>Alexey Teplykh<\/strong> began his conscript service in July 2015. In April 2016, he was in occupied Ukrainian territory and was photographed with militants of the DPR or other Russian servicemen.\r\n\r\nThus, more proof of Russian conscripts conducting \"military exercises\" under the guidance of more experienced Russian contract soldiers (such as Pavel Dykiy) in the occupied Donbas has been found.\r\n\r\nNote, that it takes about 5 hours by car to get from the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky to Ukrainian Donetsk and only an hour and a half to Luhansk. It is easy to bring Russian conscripts to the frontline every day to gain combat experience. Also, it easy to quickly return them to their home bases in Russia crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border through points which are under full control of the Russian Army. Should any casualties occur \u2013 they can be written off as an accident during a training exercise.\r\n\r\nPrepared by <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VidalSorokin\">Vidal Sorokin<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Translated by Evgeniy Kalashnik<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Edited by Svitlana Kemblowski<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><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=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>(CC BY 4.0) This information has been specially prepared for\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/\"><em>InformNapalm.org<\/em><\/a><em>, an active link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further public use of the material.<\/em>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}