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IR summary: "MGB DNR military counterintelligence" is dissatisfied with officers in “1st Army Corps”, which arrived from Russia
18.05.2018 - 12:53

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

Over the last week, the enemy significantly increased the intensity of fire strikes on positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory of Donbass controlled by Ukraine. The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of the settlements Zolotoe, Krymskoe, Loskutovka, Prichepilovka, Novotoshkovskoe, Borovskoye, Popasnaya, Troitskoe, Novozvanovka, Lugansk, Novolugansk, Novgorod, Novoselovka, Yuzhnoye, Svetlodarsk, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Zaliznoe, Avdeevka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Kamenka, Peski, Opytnoe, Butovka mine, Bogdanovka, Novotroitskoe, Novolaspa, Starognatovka, Gnutovo, Chermalyk.

At the same time, the enemy attracted both the regular and duty artillery units of “1st and 2nd Army Corps” of the operational group of the Russian occupation forces to the task of defeating the positions of the JF and civilian objects.

Active combat activities continue in the area of the northern, north-western and north-eastern suburbs of Gorlovka. The enemy regularly strikes with 122 mm cannon artillery on the JF positions in the area of Zhovanka-Zaitsevo.

On the site from Peski to Novgorodskoe (the north-western suburbs of Donetsk and the eastern outskirts of Gorlovka), including the Avdeevka district, the enemy does not stop trying to "push off" the JF units from advanced positions, including the use of fire damage. Over the past few days, the cases of use of heavy weapons and other weapons destruction by the enemy, combined with the raids of small infantry groups of occupying forces on the neutral zone, were recorded there.

The enemy continues to actively conduct aerial reconnaissance in order to detect changes in the combat order of the Joint forces. The enemy focused on the opening of the control system, clarifying the operational situation, as well as identifying changes in the combat order and the concentration of reserves of the Joint Forces.

The activation of the maneuvering groups of the EW of the enemy along the entire contact line is noted, as well as the training of the air defense duty forces, including the demonstrative actions of artillery units with access to pre-prepared firing positions.

According to the plan of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, measures continue to be taken to prepare for the summer period of training in units and subunits of “1st and 2nd Army Corps” of the occupation forces. In this connection, a commission from the headquarters of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation began to work at the headquarters of the “1st and 2nd Army Corps”.

The Commissions from HQs of “1st and 2nd Army Corps” conduct checks of the registration and availability of standard weapons, ammunition, military equipment, the timeliness of working out documents of combat and mobilization readiness, and compliance with the regime of secrecy in the units and subunits.

In preparation for the summer training period, the activities are conducted to prepare for instructional and demonstration classes, as well as battalion tactical exercises involving air defense units and artillery at the Yuzhniy military training ground.

The Russian occupation command continues to conduct measures for the military registration of Ukrainian citizens of conscript age in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The so-called "military commissariats" carry out the work of conscription commissions, and medical examination of candidates for the service in “1st and 2nd Army Corps” is organized.

To ensure the activities of units of “1st and 2nd Army Corps” of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces, about 2,300 tons of fuel (railway stations Rovenky and Krasnaya Mogila) were delivered from the territory of Russia during the last week period.

The occupation forces continue to regroup their forces and assets at a number of sites. In particular:

- The command of the occupants is regrouping units with a change of positions in the area of the Smelyoe, Dolgoe and Zheltoe. On these sites, redeployment of armored vehicles is fixed, incl. heavy armament (tanks), mainly in the dark.

- In the twilight, 4 units of 122-mm guns of the D-30 type on a trailer (trucks Ural) passed through Bayraki to the southern direction. Most likely, we are talking about the replacement or the withdrawal of units after the shelling of the positions of AFU.

- The active traffic of motor transport is noted on the highway N-21 between the Snezhnoye - Shakhtersk and Torez. In a day, 3-4 columns are fixed, including the transportation of construction materials (mostly wood) and fuel by "army transport". Judging by the volumes, the invaders proceeded to equip the second echelon and cut-off positions in separate sections (south of Donetsk and in the Gorlovka area). In addition, there is a transfer of wood by railway transport is noted (2 railway cars with forest from the Russian Federation were fixed in Ilovaysk, and 4 are at Debaltsevo railway station).

- Also, the active movement of vehicles with items of material and technical supply is fixed between Makeyevka and Mineralnoe.

- The transfer of the invaders' reinforcement to Staromikhaylovka and Vesyoloye is fixed. Two columns of vehicles with personnel (7 trucks Ural and 2 trucks Kamaz with manpower) proceeded through the center of Donetsk towards Kuibyshevsky district (the personnel - with rucksacks and ammunition).

The invaders continue to prepare for the mythical "large-scale offensive of the AFU". Immediately at 2 military ranges of the “1st Army Corps”, the occupational command began an active phase of training anti-tank missile system operators. 25-30 "specialists" are trained at each training range. It is envisaged to carry out real launches from ATGM and "complex training" (what this means is still unclear, but most likely - working off interaction with other weapons of destruction). Simultaneously, the information is spreading among militants about the supply of new batches of the ATGM to the Corps units from the Russian Federation in the near future.

It is stated in a memorandum prepared by the “Military Intelligence Service of the MGB of DNR” in the name of the Russian advisers at the headquarters of the “1stArmy Corps DNR” that the Russian personnel, which was sent for rotation (mainly for the command and instructional staff), uses working time for the decision of their own issues, incl. related to abuse of official authority, banal stolen property of entrusted units, establishing and active participation in various contraband "flows". In the opinion of the “MGB DNR”, this situation has a drastic negative effect on the moral and psychological state of the personnel, primarily local militants. The report ends with a request to the Russian command "to more carefully approach to the issue of personnel selection" of candidates for sending to the Donbass from the Russian Federation.

At the same time, another "spy mania" burst is fixing in “DNR” and “LNR”. In particular, Russian advisers from the FSB of the Russian Federation in the "special services" of the “LDNR” believe that the SSU and the Department of Military Intelligence of Ukraine's Defense Ministry are currently implementing a "targeted program" for mass bribery and recruitment of top and middle-ranking officials in the structures of the occupation administration. In this regard, a large-scale inspection of officials is conducting for "links with Ukraine."

In Bokovo-Khrustalnoye (formerly Vakhrushevo) and Petrovo-Krasnoselie (formerly Petrovskoe), which are under the control of the "LNR", there is a large outburst of discontent from citizens of retirement age. The situation is caused by the decision of the so-called "Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the LNR", in connection with the reduction in the number of staff of the "LNR pension fund", to terminate the activities of branches of this structure in these settlements. At the same time, service for the pensioners of these towns (about 5000 people) will be a branch in the settlement Khrustalny (formerly Krasny Luch). Meanwhile, the "Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the LNR" is considering closing the branches of the "pension fund" in a number of other settlements, which is associated with a decrease in the level of funding from the Russian Federation and the forced reduction in the number of social workers in the "LNR".

IR
 
IR summary: the occupants conduct a special operation in Gorlovka
23.05.2018 - 11:51

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

In the last week period, the intensity of fire strikes on positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory controlled by Ukraine remained high. In total, artillery units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupation forces carried out more than 350 artillery raids (in the past week period more than 400) from 152/122mm artillery systems, 82/120mm mortars, 122mm MLRS “Grad", 122-mm portable launchers "Grad-P", infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.

The most intense fire strikes were inflicted on the positions of Ukrainian troops near the settlements of Zolotoe, Krymskoe, Novotoshkovskoe, Prichepilovka, Stepnoe, Troitskoe, Lugansk, Novolugansk, Novgorodskoe, Popasnaya, Katerinovka, Novozvanovka, Svetlogorsk, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Travnevoe, Zaliznoe, Shumy, Avdeevka, Peski, Butovka mine, Verkhnetoretskoye, Novotroitskoe, Novognatovka, Staragnatovka, Mykolaivka, Bogdanovka, Gnutovo, Pishchevik, Lebedinskoe and Shirokino.

Immediately on several sites, active raid actions of small infantry groups of the enemy were observed (on the neutral area or directly on the front line of defense of the JF units, mainly for the purpose of sudden shelling with the use of automatic small arms and hand grenade launchers, concealed mining, observation of the front edge of the AFU and sniper fire). In addition, attempts were made to displace Ukrainian units from occupied positions by assault actions in some cases.

The main tasks of enemy fire weapons were:

- Fire support to their own units in the course of their raiding actions;

- Fire damage of the advanced defensive JF units;

- Break in of combat control and supply of advanced JF units;

- The opening of the fire control system of the JF units by provoking them to open a return fire;

- Provocative and propaganda actions in the framework of information and psychological impact on the local population and personnel of the JF units.

At the same time, the enemy actively involved both the regular and duty artillery units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupation forces.

The enemy intensified the conduct of air reconnaissance in order to detect changes in the combat order of the Joint forces. In the period from May 15 to May 22 this year, about 45 reconnaissance flights of the UAV of the RF Armed Forces were recorded, including 7 flights of the Orlan-10 UAV, which were carried out by entry into the operational-tactical depth of the defense of the Joint forces. The enemy focused on the opening of the control system, clarifying of the operational situation, as well as identifying changes in the location of troops in the operational-tactical depth of the Joint forces.

The active activity of the EW maneuvering groups of the enemy continues along the entire contact line, as well as the demonstrative actions of the enemy artillery units with the exit of them to the pre-prepared firing positions.

According to a plan of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, training camps with the commanders of the companies and batteries from 1st and 2nd Army Corps were conducted at the military ranges "Yuzhniy", "Centralniy" and "Udarniy".

To ensure the terrorist activity of units 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces, about 1,400 tons of fuel (railway station Rovenky) and 12 wagons with ammunition were delivered during the last week from the territory of Russia (railway station Ilovaysk).

Redeployment of forces and means of invaders:

- The active movement of army trucks continues through Torez - Shakhtersk - Khartsyzk to Donetsk, Makeyevka and Gorlovka. The enemy continues to actively use trucks to bring logistic items directly into the combat units of their formations. Over the last 4 days, at least 30 trucks of the "army type" per day have been observed in this direction (for 5 hours in the last 24 hours there were 42 trucks of different types in several columns and at least 4 command and control vehicles and 6 long-length petrol tankers).

- The invaders actively bring up fuel, ammo and other supplies using different roads;

- In the vicinity of Donetsk (the airport and Spartak area), the equipment of the new positions is being fixed at a distance of about 3 km from the front line. The engineering works are being actively carried out, dugouts are being equipped;

- The strengthening of occupation units is noted in the Gorlovka area (in the area of the dumps of the mine named after Lenin, northeast of Nikitovka and in several other districts). The equipment of additional positions and placement of additional fire facilities are fixed. In particular, the presence of mortar units (3-4 mortars, mostly 82 mm in each) and the appearance of additional fire weapons such as "Utes", "Cord", heavy grenade launchers AGS-17/21 were noted. In addition, the appearance of at least 6 additional combat armored vehicles (mainly BMP-1/2) was noted at these sections in the second echelons. In the southern part of Gorlovka, cargo trucks (groups of 5-6 trucks) and two groups of armored vehicles of the bandit formation "Somali" is fixed - a column of 6 BMP-1/2 and 3 MT-LB and the second group of 4 BMP-2;

- There is a redployment of small subunits of the occupants through Yenakiyevo towards Gorlovka. The column of 5 BMP-2, 3 BTR-80 and several trucks Ural was fixed. Later - 4 trucks Kamaz and 2 MT-LB.

- The occupants reinforce again their units by armored vehicles on the section from Pionerskoe to Nikolaevka. The redeployment of at least 5 BMP-1/2 and 3 tilted trucks Ural was recorded through Vishnevy Dol to this section;

- At the training range in the Bugaevka area, a tank battalion from the 2nd Army Corps of the occupation forces exercises offensive operations in cooperation with artillery. Combat firing is conducted with a standard projectile.

After the history with the capture of Chigari under the control of AFU and the panic that engulfed the militants of the 3rd separate mechanized brigade and a part of the pro-Russian population, the command of the occupants decided to urgently implement the information and psychological operation to "neutralize negative consequences". In particular, disinformation about the "tank offensive by the AFU" and some "retaliation" by the occupation forces - the destruction of "Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles", "burning warehouses and smashed upcoming units of the AFU" and "an American radar destroyed by artillerymen of 1st Army Corps " was spread out in the information field. It was within the framework of this "operation" that the reinforcements (up to the reinforced battalion) were sent demonstratively to Gorlovka and massive bombardments of the suburbs of this settlement were organized.

The high combat readiness was announced in the 100th separate mechanized brigade, 11th separate mechanized regiment, 3rd and 5th separate mechanize brigades of the occupation forces in connection with the aggravation at the front. Reserve tactical groups are in the 2-hour readiness to go to the front. In the 3rdseparate mechanized brigade and 11th separate mechanized regiment, emergency measures are taken to "restore the combat readiness" of weapons and military equipment.

The command of the 1st Army Corps is forced to admit in the report prepared by the Corps headquarters that "... the level of manning of the advanced units has decreased to 35-40% of the regular strength". In this regard, at the headquarters of the 1st AK are going to thoroughly study the rear units for sending to the front for completing the "combat" units" by additional manpower. Also, a circular was signed with the demand for the personnel agencies to complete firstly the units, which are located at the front, rather than the headquarters and supply units, in which, as it turned out, the level of manning is higher.

In addition, the command of the 1st Army Corps demanded to restore order with the service in the advanced positions in the 5th and 100th separate mechanized brigades. As it turned out, unit commanders in the reporting documents indicate "Potemkin villages" in the form of supposedly equipped engineering fortifications and structures, whereas in reality, as stated in the report of the verification commission, there are only hastily equipped positions with weak flank cover or in general completely absent. Moreover, as it turned out, the actual number of "servicemen serving in advanced positions" makes it possible to organize front cover only as a "nodal" or "focal" method in the 9th separate mechanized regiment, 5th separate mechanized brigade and 11th separate mechanized regiment. The presence of numerous "holes" and "blind zones" in the combat orders of the advanced units is stated.

The occupation administration is ordered to allocate an inviolable "reserve" of beds in medical and sanitary institutions in Alchevsk, Lugansk and a number of front-line settlements in the occupied areas of the Luhansk region for the case of the notorious "offensive of the AFU". The same it applies to medicines, medical equipment.

The information on possible personnel changes in a management of a pseudo-republic extends among the "senior officials" of the so-called "LNR" in connection with change of the curator "LNR/DNR" in the Kremlin. At the same time, according to spreading rumors, the deputy head of the government of the Russian Federation, D. Kozak, is expected to be appointed chief curator of the LNR/DNR.

IR
 
Kremlin Fakes: Why Mr. Putin Links ISIS to Ukraine?
25.05.2018 - 15:57

Dmytro Zolotukhin, Deputy minister of information policy of Ukraine. Founder of the Institute for Postinformation Society. Founder of OSINT.Academy. Infowars practician.
The ISIS alleged calls to organize terrorist acts in Ukraine on the eve of the Champions League final are another provocation by Russian special services. However, it is far not the first. Since the end of 2013, Moscow has been actively trying to brainwash the world community into believing in the links between Ukraine and the jihadists.

On the eve of the most significant football event, the Champions League, reports of a possible ISIS attack on Liverpool and Real Madrid football fans appeared in the information space of both Britain and Ukraine. More precisely, the British tabloid ‘The Sun’, using data from closed Telegram chats, reported about the radical Islamists call for solo and mass attacks in the center of the Ukrainian capital — Kyiv. Meanwhile, if you take a closer look at the information provided by the British edition, it becomes clear that the journalists based their judgments only on the posters published by the ISIS — no one provided screenshots of chat communications.

It should be noted that for the first time the information appeared not in ‘The Sun’, but in the Peruvian ‘Libero’, on May 16 — three days before the mass distribution. Where from did the Peruvians get it? It’s very simple: posters were published in various Twitter accounts with a link to the ISIS media structure — “al-Burhan Media Foundation.” However, it is somewhat curious that the search of the materials concerning the attack in Kyiv at the pro-Isis cite bears no fruits.

The Security Service of Ukraine already evaluated the publications, indicating that they are just the spread of fake news. Moreover, the SSU experts believe that the information itself appeared not without the participation of Russian special services. The primary goal, as pointed out by the SSU, is the escalation of excessive widespread concerns, panic, and chaos among residents and guests of the Ukrainian capital.

The indirect evidence of Kremlin special services participation in this operation is the mass dissemination of this information by pro-Russian media, which, incidentally, did not disdain to use officials as main commentators, including administrative servants of the former runaway president Yanukovych, a man who is now accused of high treason.

At the same time, the central message, which pro-Russian publications laid in their articles, was a call to Ukrainian media to stop publishing materials about the Middle East. That makes sense since it is our Russian-speaking journalists who can influence the opinion of ordinary Russians regarding, for example, the Syrian military campaign.

By the way, one can mention that militants` posts published on social networks carry on propaganda for conducting terrorist attacks in Russia as well — during the World Cup. The question arises: why should the Kremlin call upon to attack its citizens and disrupt the competition? The explanation to this is as simple as the term “information operations to divert attention.”

However, if these attacks are indeed the work of the Russians — what can be said with a high degree of probability — then the Ukrainian secret services will quickly identify those responsible, just as they did before.

The one-year-old publication of the British “Sky News” is also worth recalling. Then the Moscow correspondent of the TV channel, referring to several dubious speakers, including journalists with Russian citizenship, described Ukraine as a kind of trans-shipment base for hundreds of ISIS terrorists. The material referred to the figure of 400–500 fighters. At the same time, the source of such data was not sounded. Moreover, no so-called jihadist witnesses on which the material was pointing out exist.

In general, all this turned out to be a common fake actively used by the Russians telling the whole world about the threat coming from Ukraine.

As a matter of curiosity, during the current information attack, the pro-Russian media, and even the British tabloid ‘The Sun’ made direct and indirect references to the material of 2017, telling about the so-called militant camps in the territory of Ukraine again. In truth, this time half reduced the number of militants.

Another rather nameworthy case dated 2016 is also worth mentioning. Let me remind you that on November 19, 2016, the reputable news agency ‘Agency France Press’ published information allegedly received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kuwait that Ukraine had supplied Chinese man-portable air defense missile system FN-6 to fighters from ISIS. The source of these data, according to journalists, were the terrorists themselves detained by the Kuwaiti police.

After the publication of this material (which was later removed by the French agency), the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine made an official statement that the Chinese MANPADS are not in service with our army.

Moreover, the main detainee, in this case, a citizen of Lebanon, said only then that he had bought weapons somewhere in the territory of Ukraine, but he did not specify which weapons and on what particular region. Later in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry noted that kits for similar MANPADS could be transported in Russian humanitarian convoys, which still illegally cross the Ukrainian border from the Russian Federation and enter the occupied lands of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

As a matter of curiosity, on the next day, 17 November 2016, Russian newspapers circulated information about a supposedly secret deal between Ukraine and Qatar on the sale of the SA-3 Goa S-125 Neva/Pechora Ground-to-Air missile system. The key message was: Kiev sold to Doha, the main ally of ISIS (according to the reports of Russian journalists), these weapons.

The first fake was published on the basis of fabricated correspondence and documents by the cyber group “Cyberberkut” (RF), then the information was picked up by Russian federal media. In the end, it turned out that there were not only no supplies but also no agreements on these weapons with Qatar.

By the way, this is not the first time when Russian special services tried to draw a line: Ukraine-Qatar-radical Islamists (even before ISIS emerged on the global arena in 2014). In January 2013, after Asad used the chemical weapons against the civilians, Russian special services fabricated electronic correspondence between the leadership of the British private company Britam Defense, which at that time was protecting oil wells in the south of Iraq, and which included enough Ukrainian workers.

According to the fake correspondence, confirmed by copies of the stolen original internal documents of the company and the passports of Ukrainians, Qatar allegedly offered Britam Defense to use “Ukrainian mercenaries” to deliver chemical weapons from Libya to Syria and apply it under the “Russian flag” to organize provocations against Russian Federation.

Henceforth, the whole world would see, especially after the American Tomahawk Land Attack Missile struck on Syrian targets, that it was Moscow who supplied chemical weapons to Syria.

In addition, we ought to recall, in June 2015, the Russian ambassador to Kuwait, Aleksey Salamatin, came to the Foreign Ministry of the host country in order to convince the Kuwaiti authorities that Ukraine had supplied tons of weapons and ammunition through Saudi Arabia to ISIS.

As evidence, he presented the publication of the English site “South Front” on 20 June. In it, an anonymous author assured that during the period from May 22 to May 25, the Ukrainian companies delivered 15 thousand small arms (AK-74) to the Saudi firm TMAS Marketing on the basis of the counterfeit Kuwaiti end-user certificate. Then this Ukrainian weapon allegedly arrived in the Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian camps for the preparation of the ISIS militants.

The Russian ambassador in Kuwait naively believed that Kuwaiti diplomats would not want to check this information out. However, it turned out to be the opposite: the Kuwaiti authorities discovered that the plenipotentiary representative of Russia had brought to the meeting with diplomats an ordinary reprint from the Russian “Military Observer” on 18 June.

All this is just a small part of those information operations that were directed against Ukraine — to undermine the trust of international partners to our state.

Simultaneously, it should be noted: Russia, since 2013 — before the Vilnius summit — started to link Ukraine with radical Islamists in Syria. It means the Kremlin planned advance military campaigns both in Ukraine and on the territory of Syria.

The Russian special services and the media under their control will subsequently spread fakes about the ISIS fighters who take part in hostilities in the Donbass region, transit bases for terrorists in various cities of our country — from Kharkov to Odessa, — about Crimean Tatars fighting on the side of jihadists in Syria, etc.

Thus, the general scheme, which is still used by the Kremlin, is filled with several important messages:

1. Russia is fighting against ISIS terrorists in Syria;

2. The terrorists of ISIS kill Europeans in the cities of Europe and pose a threat (while, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Europe and Russia ought to join efforts in the fight against Jihadist Terrorism);

3. ISIS is connected with Ukraine that is why Ukraine also poses a threat to the EU;

4. Let’s bomb terrorists together, but you have to return Ukraine to the so-called Russian sphere of influence.

That is why the current information operation, held on the eve of the Champions League final, is not an exception. The Ukrainian security services will soon prove it. However, the world finally has to realize: Ukraine is not a territory for terrorists; it is a country that fights with them. The only one who benefits from destabilizing Ukraine, Europe, the Middle East, and other regions with the ISIS factor is Kremlin.
 
IR summary: the occupants equip a new battalion defense area in Mariupol direction
31.05.2018 - 11:08

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

Over the past week, the intensity of fire strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory controlled by Ukraine remained high. In total, units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupying forces carried out more than 270 artillery raids (about 370 last week) from 122/152-mm artillery systems, 82/120-mm mortars, 122-mm portable rocket launchers " Grad-P, BMPs and tanks.

The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of the settlements of the Krymskoe, Zarya, Troitskoe, Lugansk, Staraya Nikolaevka, Shumy, Rassadki, Travnevoe, Pivdennoe, Novgorodskoe, Butovka mine, Nevelskoye, Novoselovka Vtoraya Avdeevka, Opytnoe, Marinka Novotroitskoye, Novognatovka, Bogdanovka, Granitnoye, Pavlopol, Chermalyk, Talakovka, Vodyanoe, Lebedinskoe and Shirokino.

The enemy actively used both regular and duty artillery units from the 1st and 2ndArmy Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupation forces.

The intensity of air reconnaissance by the enemy in order to detect changes in the combat order of the Joint Forces remains high. 47 reconnaissance flights of the UAV of the RF Armed Forces are recorded in the period from 22 to 29 May this year, including 8 flights of the Orlan-10 UAV, which entered in the operational-tactical depth of the defense of the Joint Forces. The enemy concentrated special attention on clarifying the operational situation, revealing changes in the situation of our troops in the operational and tactical depth of the Joint Forces, as well as the location of warehouses, ammunition and material and technical equipment.

The intense activity of the EW maneuvering groups of the enemy continues to be noted along the entire contact line. A new group of EW is deployed in the Mariupol direction, staffed by regular servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces. The numerous interferences are fixed in mobile and tracking communications. As the result, in particular, it was significant interference in the work of the mini-UAV of the OSCE monitoring team, which carried out air monitoring of the sector in the Verkhneshirokovskoe-Kazatskoe-Vedenskoe-Zaichenko section at May 27.

According to the plan of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, the preparatory period is completed in the units and subunits of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the occupation troops, within which instructor-methodological and commander's trainings were conducted with the command staff of units of the 1stand 2nd Army Corps, as well as the transfer of equipment for the summer period operation. With aim to monitoring and verifying the implementation of activities to prepare for the summer period, a commission from the headquarters of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces was working in the 1st and 2ndArmy Corps until May 26 this year.

Sharply increased activity of reconnaissance-sabotage and raiding groups of Russian occupation forces has been recorded in the zone of JFO in the Donbas over the past few days. Attempts to infiltrate them through the forward line of the JF stronghold points, attempts to organize sudden firings and raids on the forward support and observation posts of the JF units, concealed mining and ambushes directly behind the "zero" line and in the tactical rear of the JF units are noted.

The enemy continues to actively improve his engineering positions in the Mariupol direction. There are active excavation works at several places in the second line. The engineering equipment is fixed north of Bezimennoye (on the windmills), southeast of Veseloe and in the Vedenskoe district. In all cases, the presence of excavators, cranes, and in one case - a bulldozer, are noted. Apparently, the command of the occupiers is organizing a new battalion defense area in the second echelon in this direction.

Simultaneously, in the same direction, the occupants are working out the issue of strengthening their advanced units by reserves from the depth of defense. Thus, columns of combat armored vehicles (4 BMP-2, 3 BMP-1, 1 BRM-1K and 1 BTR-80) were observed between the Kulikovo and Khreschatytskoe, as well as several trucks, which were advanced to the front as a training. A little later, a part of the armored vehicles returned, proceeding in the direction of Kachkarskoye.

The command of the 2nd Army Corps secretly strengthens its advanced units by separate heavy armored vehicles. So, 3 tanks of type T-72 were noted to the north of Novosvetlovka.

For several days in the Gorlovka area, some AD systems "Strela-10" (9K35) of occupants were fixed, in particular, in the Mikhailovka - Piatikhatki district, as well as the Sukhoi Yar railway station. Obviously, the transfer is conducted for struggle against the UAVs.

The leaders of the "DNR" are planning to increase responsibility for the violation of customs regulations. In this regard, the so-called "The Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Policy of the DNR" instructed to submit a bill "on introducing amendments to the law" on customs regulation in the DNR" in the near future.

Representatives of the international public movement "Immortal Regiment" (Belarus, deputy chairman K. Zabavsky) are trying to establish cooperation "in the social and political sphere" with representatives of the Donetsk Society of Belarusians "Neman" (leader S.Pasynkov) with the further prospects of creating the Commonwealth "Russia- Belarus-Novorossia "for unification in the fight against the "Bandera junta".

IR
 
IR summary: the intelligence service of the occupants is conducting a special operation to falsify the "provocations of the AFU"
06.06.2018 - 12:25

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

According to the order of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, the Russian occupation command instructed the subordinate formations of the occupying forces to reduce active hostilities for the period of the World Cup in Russia. Meanwhile, during the last week period, the intensity of firing of the invaders (by 122/152-mm artillery systems, 82/120-mm mortars, 122-mm portable Grad missile launchers, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks) is insignificant (about 220 fire raids against about 280 in the previous week period).

The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of settlements Zolotoe, Krymskoe, Novotoshkovskoe, Svetlodarsk, Zaitsevo, Pivdennoe, Opytnoe, Peski, Novomikhailovka, Bogdanovka, Starognatovka, Novoselovka Vtoraya, Novotroitskoe, Chermalyk, Gnutovo, Pavlopol, Vodyanoe, Lebedinskoe and Shirokino.

The intensity of air reconnaissance of the enemy remains high. 45 reconnaissance flights of the UAV of the RF Armed Forces recorded in the period from May 29 to June 4 this year, incl. 5 flights of the UAV "Orlan-10", which were carried out with a flight to the operational-tactical depth of the defense of the Joint forces. The enemy focused on identifying changes in the combat order of the JF, as well as clarifying the status and location of the reserves of the JF in the area of the operation.

The active activity of the EW maneuvering groups of the enemy is noted along the entire contact line.

According to the plan of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, the summer preparatory training period began in units and subunits of the 1st and 2ndArmy Corps of the occupation forces, within which a "week of combat readiness" is held in the 1st and 2nd Army Corps. At the same time, the Russian occupation command plans to conduct combat readiness checks in units and subunits of both Army Corps in the Donbass with their withdrawal to concentration areas.

In addition, "Spring recruitment campaign" has finished in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. At the same time, more than 150 people were sent to staffing the 9th separate assault mechanized regiment of naval infantry (Novoazovsk).

To ensure the terrorist activities of units and subunits of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces, about 400 tons of petroleum products were delivered from the territory of Russia (railroad station Lugansk) in the period from May 30 to June 5 this year.

The Russian occupation forces in the Donbas continue the active redeployment of additional forces and assets in a number of sectors:

- The active movement of the combat armored vehicles and the motor vehicles of the occupants is noted in Gorlovka in order to strengthen the units of the 3rdseparate mechanized brigade. North of the Golmovskaya Street, the movement of the D-30 /30A guns of the artillery unit (including 2 MT-LB and several trucks Ural) is fixed to the southern direction. In addition, the equipment of new positions for mortars by the occupiers is noted to the south-west of the Gagarin mine;

- The occupants continue intensive motor transfers along the N-21 highway towards Donetsk. During 2 days, not less than 5 large convoys were recorded. The presence of fuel tankers and command-staff vehicles is noted in the composition of the columns;

- The command of the enemy continues to strengthen its Dokuchaevsk garrison and units defending north of this settlement by armored vehicles. Thus, along the route between Dokuchaevsk and Styla, movements of not less than 10 combat armored vehicles (MT-LB and BMP-1/2) and motor transport of the army model were observed;

- In the area of Stanitsa Luganskaya, the work of the occupants to strengthen and improve their advanced positions in engineering terms is noted. The delivery of construction materials was fixed twice.

The command of the 1st Army Corps of the occupation forces demanded that the personnel bodies of the subordinated brigades have to pay special attention to the manning of the regular anti-tank units, as well as the training of specialists of the appropriate profile. First of all, we are talking about the squads of AT-guns of the MT-12 Rapier type and the ATGM operator-gunners (first of all it concerns the 5th, 100th separate mechanized brigades and the 11th separate mechanized regiment).

Serious disruptions with fuel supplies from the Russian Federation continue in the "DNR» and this concern the provision of not only civilian enterprises and local population, but also units of the 1st Army Corps of the occupation forces. In separate units of the occupiers, the command is forced to restrict the use of motor vehicles, incl. for first-stage needs, and military drivers note a sharp deterioration in fuel quality. In the civil sector, there is a lack of popular brands of gasoline, and in some cases of diesel fuel in several gas stations (only a limited number of gas stations provide retail trade).

"DNR" and "LNR" reconnaissance units received the current task from Russian curators to record the results of artillery and mortar attacks by occupants on civilian targets in the territory controlled by Ukraine with the help of agents for further use of the received information for propaganda purposes. In particular, it is planned to issue these shelling for "provocation of AFU", allegedly firing populated areas in the territory controlled by them for the subsequent accusation of Russian invaders. A special unit is already being formed at the headquarters of the 1st Army Corps "DNR", which will handle the processing and use of the received information.

The “DNR leaders” manipulate the coal production indicators in the territory of the “DNR”, showing that they allegedly significantly increased production volumes in 2018. However, the comparison is made solely with the indicators of 2017, which was the most failed coal mining for the time of the existence of the “DNR”. If you compare at least with 2016, it turns out that the actual coal mining fell 1.5 times.

"DNR" enterprises controlled by A. Zakharchenko and his entourage buy up agricultural products from farmers at low prices and sell it in Russia at 3 times more expensive. Farmers who are outraged by this situation are warned by militants that the dissatisfied people will be forcibly sent to the forefront.

for the creation of a united "tax and customs" database In the "DNR", personal data of local residents (name, place of residence and registration, state motor transport signs, place of work, family composition, telephone numbers, etc.) are collected. In particular, the representatives of the “DNR” collect personal data from citizens when they crossing roadblocks, as well as doorbell- ringing, usually in groups of 4 (one employee of the Ministry of Revenue and fees and law enforcement, accompanied by two armed militants ).

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IR summary: the training center in St. Petersburg began preparing a new party of saboteurs for Donbass
09.06.2018 - 13:09

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

According to the information of the IR group, the officers of the FSB of the Russian Federation, who represent the structural units of this special service in the Kursk region (RF) along the Ukrainian-Russian border, are systematically working to recruit Ukrainian citizens recruited earlier on the compromising basis (one of the categories - smugglers) to participate actively in events in support of the UOC-MP in the territory of Ukraine in the context of the possible provision of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church.

Also, according to available information, employees (under cover) and FSB agents of the Russian Federation conduct systemic events of ideological processing and psychological influence on Ukrainian citizens at the checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Russian border from the Russian side, especially the females, who often visit Russia and have relatives there. The main thesis, which is brought and played out, is the prevention at any cost of a "church split" (ROC - UOC-MP), which "unites fraternal Slavic peoples".

An information campaign is being conducted in the world Hellenic environment (ethnic Greeks), using the potential of coordinator of the "Peripherals of the countries of the former USSR" Council of Greeks abroad "I. Savvidi, with aim to promote the idea that the indigenous people of the Crimean peninsula are the Greeks, and not the Crimean Tatars. The campaign is coordinated by representatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation.

Local residents of the village Rovenky in the occupied part of the Lugansk region express massive dissatisfaction with the innovations in the medical sphere connected with the mandatory passage of medical examination before official employment. At the same time the medical examination is paid - the cost is equivalent to 800 UAH.

The "People's Council of the LNR" plans to adopt new "laws" - "on the foundations of state youth policy" and "on the system of patriotic education of LNR citizens" in the second half of this year. In addition, the "Council of Ministers of the LNR" has developed and in the near future should adopt "republican programs" of "spiritual education of students of the LNR until 2020" and "patriotic education of the younger generation of LNR until 2020".

According to the policy implemented in this context, it is planned to organize 1566 events involving schoolchildren and students permanently residing in the Luhansk region up to the end of this year. At the same time, in order to increase the number of participants in these events from the territory of the Luhansk region under Ukraine's control, it is planned to hold information campaigns to popularize these events.

The Center for Tactical and Fire Training "Partizan" (St. Petersburg, Russia) recruited and began training a new batch of "volunteers" to take part in hostilities in the east of Ukraine as part of the Russian occupation forces. The training takes place from the 1st of June to 31st of August, according to the following program: the course of topography and orientation on the terrain, tactical medicine, survival course, the “Partizan” special course on fighting in the city and the forest, fire training using various types of small arms.

This center specializes in training saboteurs under a special program over the past four years, which allows in a short time to train "cadets" the basic skills of subversive and terrorist activities. Graduates of the center are appointed to the posts of commanders of the Special operation teams; perform the functions of instructors in the Russian occupation forces in the Donbass. During the existence of the center, more than 400 terrorists were trained, most of whom were awarded by "medals" of the "LDNR". The Center is registered at: St. Petersburg, Dresdenskaya street, 20, phones: 89213524578, 89112012177. The head of the center is a citizen of the Russian Federation Denis Vasiliev, born in 1978.
 
IR summary: the "Ministry of Internal Affairs" and "MGB" of "LNR" and “DNR” were transferred to the enhanced version of service for the period of World Cup 2018
15.06.2018 - 15:54

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

The Russian occupation forces in the Donbas continue to shell the positions of the AFU and populated areas near the line of demarcation. Predominantly the fire is opened by the enemy from automatic small arms, handle and heavy grenade launchers. However, the use of heavy weapons by the occupiers is fixed also- mostly 120 mm mortars and 122 mm cannon artillery. In addition, throughout the day, the conduct of fire by the enemy from the conventional weapons of the combat armored vehicles (BMP-2), anti-aircraft guns and a number of other weapons was recorded.

During the last week, the most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops near the settlements of the Crimskoe, Prichepilovka, Novotoshkovskoe, Zaitsevo, Kamenka, Opytnoe, Peski, Novoselovka Second, Novotroitskoe, Pavlopol, Vodyanoe, Lebedinskoe and Shirokino.

The intensity of air reconnaissance by the enemy remains high. The enemy focused on the opening of the control system, clarifying the operational situation, as well as identifying changes in the combat order and the location of the reserves of the Joint Forces. Also, active activity of maneuvering EW groups of the enemy continues to be noted along the entire contact line.

To increase the effectiveness of fire damage, as well as to maintain artillery units and subunits of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of Russian occupying forces in constant combat readiness, classes on shooting training were conducted at the military ranges "Udarniy", "Yuzhniy", "Pokrovskiy", "Udaloy" and "Vostochniy" during last week. Also, in units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps, according to a plan of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, a "week of combat readiness" was completed, during which units and subunits of the occupation troops were brought to the highest levels of combat readiness with maneuver to the concentration areas.

In the area of the dumps of the "Lenin Mine", Shirokaya Balka, Zheleznaya Balka and to the south, the several ZU-23-2 AD systems of occupants on the transport platforms, including the truck Ural and the MT-LB, were fixed. Most likely, the invaders are trying to prevent or "close" the area from UAV flights of the OSCE and the AFU.

Northeast of the height of 206.9 (the area south of Petrovskoe), the enemy, without observing the camouflage measures, openly set up positions for a 120-mm mortar battery, which fires on the unit of the AFU near Petrovskoe. 120-mm mortars of type 2B11 "Sani" are fixed on the position, which "according to the Minsk agreements" should be at least 15 km east of this area.

In the area between Raevka and Veselyaya Gora, another party of combat armored vehicles of occupants was fixed, transferred to reinforce units operating opposite the village Schastye on the eve of the "cultivation of sides" in the area of Stanitsa Luganskaya. The "motorized rifle platoon" was fixed on 4 BMP-2 and 2 MT-LB with mortars and several army-type trucks.

Immediately in several areas south of Donetsk - the area of Styla, Razdolnoye and Novolaspa - the presence of 1-2 units of the "Strela-10" air defense system type 9K35 of the occupiers is noted.

On both sides of the Svetlodarskaya arc, the engineering work is being carried out by the occupiers at several locations at once - in the Lozovoye area, at a height of 307.9, to the east of the railway station Dolomit. The work is carried out with the involvement of civil engineering equipment and military engineering vehicles.

According to the decree of the Administration of President of the Russian Federation, the structural units of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs" and "MGB" of both quasi-state formations - "DNR" and "LNR" - were transferred to the "enhanced version of service" for "the period of the football World Cup in Russia". The meaning of this order is not clear, considering that no events related to the 2018 World Cup will be held in the “DNR” and “LNR”.

There are active rumors among the militants of the "1st Army Corps DNR" and the local population of the Donetsk about the division of the territory of Donetsk by the Russian occupation authority into 3 categories. Occupation forces are allowed to conduct combat operations in full in the first side, regardless of the infrastructure available there and the presence of civilians; in the second side, it is permitted to conduct military operations with certain restrictions (minor damage to infrastructure facilities and human losses is allowed), in the third side, any fighting is not allowed. Allegedly this innovation is explained by the possible offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the World Cup in Russia.

The leadership of the "DNR" prohibited the departure for the metropolitans of the UOC-MP Hilarion and Mitrofan from the occupied territory of the Donetsk region. The restriction operates "up to a special order".

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Strangled nerve of the Russian army: the new evidence of the illegal presence of the regular Russian troops in DNR and LNR, - IR
15.06.2018 - 09:24

The main rule of the Kremlin liars is to deny everything. Let's recall the main narrative of Moscow: "All of you attribute aggression against Ukraine to us, but we are not there, and no one has really presented real evidence of the opposite, only some speculations and guesses".

But in the age of information technology, everything secret becomes clear. The "Information Resistance" group has repeatedly provided irrefutable evidence of the participation of the regular servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces in aggression against Ukraine.

This time we pinched the nerve of the Russian army. Namely - we revealed the locations of the troops of the RF Armed Forces in the occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk regions. We are talking about the newest stations of encrypted communication, which are in service exclusively for Russian military.

The map shows the location of the terminals of the mobile complexes of the protected video-conference communication (MC PVCC), and the exact location coordinates of the stations are indicated in the tables.

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As of April 2018, at least 18 mobile stations were operated in the satellite communications network of the Russian Armed Forces. Five of them were based on the territory of Ukraine, which was occupied by the Russian Federation, four in the DNR and LNR (Novoazovsk and Yasinovataya, Donetsk region, Kruglik and Kamenka, Lugansk region) and one in Crimea (Sevastopol).

As of the beginning of June, the number of mobile stations in the satellite communications network of the RF Armed Forces was reduced to 10, three of them were in the territories of Ukraine occupied by Russia - in the Novoazovsk and Vasilievka of the Donetsk region, Hrustalniy in Lugansk region.

We have to note that the satellite communication is used most intensive for organizing of unit’s communication outside the bases of permanent deployment, in this case, in the place of accomplishment of combat missions on the territory of Ukraine and Syria. Communication with the help of MC PVCC is organized by the control unit of the Armed Forces of the RF not lower than the brigade level.

In the Russian Army, satellite communications with units, including those performing tasks outside the Russian Federation, are provided by the 14th Main Communication Center of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (Moscow). The mobile satellite communications terminals in its arsenal have the same type of equipment (type "Auriga") and operate through a common frequency pool: 1 hub station and 16 subscriber channels of the Russian repeater satellite Yamal-402 (55E).

And here is a very interesting detail. MC PVCC will not be able to exploit by a tractor driver or miner, but even a mine surveyor. This is a product of the Russian defense industry, which cannot be found in the mines of Donbass, since it has been put into service exclusively for the Russian Army. It has special software and cryptographic protection systems. This satellite communication terminal can be operated only by specially trained servicemen of the RF Armed Forces with the appropriate level of access to work with cryptographic equipment. And as you understand, the transfer of such equipment to an alcoholic from LNR and DNR is even theoretically impossible according to the requirements of secrecy ...

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IR summary: "DNR leadership" came up with another way to attract local residents to "military service"
05.07.2018 - 10:34

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

Despite the so-called "grain truce", the intensity of fire strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory under control of Ukraine remains high. During the last 5 days, the enemy was conducting fire strikes most intensively on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of the Krymskoe, Novotoshkovskoe, Troitskoe, Lozovoye, Zaitsevo, Luganskoye, Yuzhnoye, Krutaya Balka, Peski, Avdeevka, Marinka, Staragnatovka, Novotroitskoe, Gnutovo, Lebedinskoe, Pavlopol, Vodyanoe, Berdyanskoye and Shirokino.

Units and formations of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the occupation troops continue to be in a state of waiting for the intensification of hostilities and remain in an increased degree of combat readiness. Measures are being taken to increase the stealth and sustainability of the control system by the advanced units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps, and their armored groups and artillery units are also being strengthened.

Within the summer training period, according to the unified plan of the Southern Military District of the AF Russian Federation, units and formations of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps conduct classes on tactical and shooting training at the "Centralniy", "Slavniy", "Udaloy", "Udarniy", "Primorskiy" and "Uzhniy" training grounds.

In accordance with the order of the head of the so-called DNR A. Zakharchenko since July 2 this year, a curfew restriction is introduced from 01.00 to 05.00 in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region.

The Russian occupants are preparing the future "cannon fodder" in the children's camps of the Lugansk region. According to the IR group, the Russian occupation authorities in the occupied territories of the Lugansk region and their Russian curators continue to attract young people to "youth paramilitary formations" to carry out "moral and psychological training" for further participation in the fighting in the ranks of "2nd Army Corps LNR". So, on the basis of the children's health camp "Mechta" (the village of Bolshoi Sukhodol), the occupation administration of the Krasnodon district conducts "patriotic" field camp for young people from June 29 to July 8. About 700 people from the cadets of the military-patriotic association "Pereval" (Perevalsk) and the "paratroopers and patriotic sports club" School of Courage "(Sverdlovsk) take part in these events. The head of the "School of Courage" is Domrachev Vyacheslav Pavlovich, according to his statement, the participants of the paratroopers and patriotic sports club actively assisted to the illegal armed forces of the "LNR" during the fighting in the Sverdlovsk and Krasnodon districts of Lugansk region in the summer of 2014. The main objective of this camp is "patriotic education" and the initial military training of young people. They study the rules of using firearms, the fundamentals of hand-to-hand combat, orientation on the ground, etc.

The condition of the ecological situation in the Gorlovka of the Donetsk region is defined as threatening, characterized by an increase in the number of deaths among local residents from toxic methane poisoning and contamination of sources of drinking water. This situation arose in connection with the closure of mines and the stopping of coal mining in the area of this settlement, as a result of which a process of raising the mine waters and flooding the lower shaft horizons are observed. Water from the lower horizons pushes methane and other toxic gases to the surface.

According to the unofficial instruction of the leaders of the "DNR", wages to civilians in the occupied areas of the Donetsk region should not exceed the average salary of "military personnel of the DNR" (about 15,000 Russian rubles). This order is aimed at ensuring effective recruitment of recruits in the ranks of the "1st Army Corps DNR".

Member of the regional parliament of Berlin from the party "Alternative for Germany" Gunnar Lindemann turned to the so-called "Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DNR” N.Nikonorova with a proposal to organize beer festival Oktoberfest in temporarily occupied Donetsk in the first half of October this year.

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The occupation authorities of the Crimea plan to hold the so-called "international" round table "Cooperation of the Ukrainian National Cultural Autonomy of the Republic of Crimea with Compatriots from Abroad" in Simferopol in October 2018 with the participation of "foreign guests". The main goals of the event are:

- Assistance in enhancing the interaction of the peoples of the Crimea with "compatriots" from abroad;

- Assistance in creating an "interethnic dialogue";

- Actualization of "civil initiatives of Russian compatriots living abroad" in the socio-political processes in Russia.

It is also planned to discuss plans and prospects for the development of cooperation between the "Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian national cultural autonomy of the Republic of Crimea" and "compatriots" from abroad. The occupants plan to attract Russian compatriots living abroad to work on international legal recognition of the annexation of Crimea and counteracting the sanctions policy of Ukraine and Western countries against Russian occupants in the Crimea.

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IR summary: "Russian response to "Javelins" began to arrive to the "1st AK DNR” from Russia
11.07.2018 - 12:31

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

The intensity of fire strikes against the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory of the Donbas controlled by Ukraine decreased in the period from 4 to 10 July this year. In total, units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupying forces carried out about 145 artillery raids (over the past week period - about 190) from 122 mm artillery systems, 82/120 mm mortars, 122 mm portable rocket launchers "Grad-P”, BMPs and tanks. The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of settlements: Avdeevka, Maryinka, Krymskoe, Lebedinskoe, Pavlopol, Talakovka, Vodyanoe and Shirokino. In addition, on 4 and 5 July this year, the enemy shelled the Ukrainian Armed Forces from small arms in the area of Stanitsa Luganskaya, which is a violation of the agreement on the cultivation of forces in this area.

In order to prevent the mythical allegedly preparing "large-scale offensive" of the Joint forces, the enemy intensified the activities of its technical reconnaissance assets, as well as the special operation teams along the entire contact line.

The intensity of air reconnaissance by the enemy remained high. In the period from 3 to 9 July this year, 37 reconnaissance flights of the UAV of the RF Armed Forces were recorded, including 17 flights of UAV "Orlan-10", which were carried out with a flight into the operational-tactical depth of the defense of the Joint forces.

Within the summer training period, in accordance with the unified plan of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, command and staff exercises were conducted with units and subunits of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps with exercises of practical shooting of air defense units and howitzer artillery at the "Yuzhniy", "Kruglik" and "Peredovoy" military ranges.

In order to create and prepare a mobilization resource, the Russian occupation command conducts mobilization activities. The servicemen of the reserve through the management of enterprises are given calls about the need to arrive at mobilization camps and take a course of practical classes on tactical and shooting training.

To ensure the activities of units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces, about 2300 tons of petroleum products (railway station Rovenky and Debaltsevo) were delivered in the period from 4 to 10 July this year from the territory of Russia.

Using the ongoing "grain truce" (since July 1 of this year), the enemy intensified the work on improving the engineering equipment of its advanced positions, transferring forces and resources to a number of sectors of the front line to strengthen its units, and systematically conducts training of air defense and duty artillery units in order to work out the questions of applying effective fire destruction to the Joint Forces.

Thus, the qualitative and quantitative strengthening by the invaders of their advanced positions in the Mariupol direction by several armored groups (up to a reinforced tank platoon) is recorded on a number of sectors:

- There is an activity of the reserve armored group of the enemy (6 units of the combat armored vehicles) in the area of Bezymyannoe. Apparently, it is something like a "fire brigade" from the 9th separate mechanized regiment, consisting of 3 BMP-1/2, a pair of BTR-70/80 and an unidentified armored vehicle with anti-cumulative screens;

- The tank group of 3 T-72 tanks operating in the area of Pikuzy performs the same function of the "on-duty" reinforcement. They move only in the dark time of the day (in the light time of the day they stay in overgrown beams to the southeast of the village). If necessary, the reinforcements occupy positions in the southern and western part of the village right in the middle of the private building;

- By the same scheme, the position of the occupiers has been strengthened in the area of Kulikovo-Verkhneshirokovskoe. There is a pair of BMP-2 and at least 2 units of tanks of the T-64 type. To the south, MT-LB was also fixed, equipped with a ZU-23-2 AD system.

- In addition, the redeployment of artillery was fixed in the areas of Kozatskoe and Kachkari during the past week (4 units of 122mm D-30 / 30A guns and 3-122-mm self-propelled guns of 2C1 Gvozdika type were noted).

In general, we can talk about the use of at least a tank company, 3 battery artillery group and motorized rifle company (possibly two), withdrawn in the first line, for use by the invaders in the Mariupol direction to carry out reinforcement in the area from Naberezhnoe to Shirokino . Most likely, this is due to "intel information of 1stArmy Corps DNR" about the strengthening of JF UNITS in the Mariupol area and to the north for preparation of the summer "short break" to the state border with Russia north of Novoazovsk and cutting off the "DNR" from the sea (this scenario has recently been widely is discussed at the headquarters of "1st Army Corps DNR").

Recall that earlier the occupiers in a similar scheme have strengthened their positions on the site Dokuchaevsk - Styla - Petrovskoe - Staromarevka. There, the occupants used the reserve battalion of the 5th separate mechanized brigade for reinforcement.

In the Zaitsevo district (northern and south-western parts), as well as in the vicinity of the railway station Dolomit, the occupants actively conduct engineering work using a truce. The equipment of a number of shelters, caponiers, and trenches is noted. Also, it notes the use of construction and engineering equipment (it is used whenever possible secretly).

The equipment of a number of new artillery positions in the defense zone of the 7thseparate mechanized brigade of the 1st Army Corps (in areas south of Kalinovka, southeast of Logvinovo and north of Novogrigorovka) is confirmed. A number of these positions are already occupied, and the artillery is carefully disguised. These are 122-mm guns of the type D-30/30A and 152-mm type D-20/20M. According to the IR group estimates, 6-8 guns of each type have already been deployed (most likely, as an "artillery group on duty").

In the “1st Army Corps DNR”, the units receive new weapons coming from the Russian Federation, which the commanders of the Corps call "the Russian response to the Javelins". In particular, a number of units of the 1st Army Corps received the first AT missile system type 9K114 "Shturm-S". At the moment, 2-3 units of 9P149 combat vehicles (based on the MT-LB, on which the Sturm-C ATGMs are installed) are fixed in the brigades of the 1st Army Corps of the occupation troops. It is planned that specialized anti-tank units in the 5th separate mechanized brigade and Kalmius artillery brigade of the 1st Army Corps of the occupation forces will be equipped with these complexes in the future - 6-8 units each.

In the Gorlovka area, new attempts by the occupiers to conduct PSYOPS actions (information and psychological operations) are noted. So, the Ukrainian servicemen in Gorlovka and Svetlodarsk began to receive SMS of defeatist content (such massive PSYOPS invaders conducted during the battles for Debaltsevo). This time, SMS comes in Ukrainian, however with a lot of gross grammatical errors. The content of SMS "go home until the battalion commander did not let you in for mincemeat" together with the highly distorted Ukrainian language provokes a backlash - sarcasm and contempt, which testifies to the "professionalism" of the occupational PSYOPS specialists.

The command of the 8th Combined Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation switched to arms supplies for the needs of the 1st and 2nd AK of the occupation forces in the Donbas according to the standards of supply of the regular army. Arms and equipment began to be supplied not in bulk, but in bundles for entire units. So, the artillery brigade "Kalmius" of the 1st Army Corps received an additional battery of 122-mm self-propelled guns 2C1 "Gvozdika" for completing one of the divisions. At the same time, transport vehicles and transport and load vehicle arrived, as well as a battery-operated mobile reconnaissance and control complex. This is not the first time, when weapons are delivered from the Russian Federation to the Donbas by "units".

Russian curators are not removed from the agenda the possibility of changing the leadership of the "DNR". In this context, attention is drawn to the information campaign launched by the Kremlin aimed at popularizing the idea of returning Donbass to Ukraine under the condition of a "parallel change of power" (the removal of the President and the Government of Ukraine and the top leadership of the "DNR"). Within the framework of this campaign, the leader of the pro-Russian movement "Svoi", an active participant in the "Russian Spring", former employee of the” MGB DNR” D.Lotov and former employee of the "GRU MoD DNR" A.Komov take measures to discredit A. Zakharchenko. At the same time, D.Lotov plans to gain control over cells of the Public movement Oplot, operating in the Russian Federation and in the “DNR”.

Heads of "DNR", at the request of curators from the FSB of the Russian Federation, issued an unspoken order to dismiss of persons from the so-called "State authorities of the DNR" who visit and have relatives in the territory controlled by Ukraine. These people, in the opinion of Russian special services, could be engaged in reconnaissance and subversive activities in the “DNR” by the instructions of the special services of Ukraine.

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By the order of Russian curators and with a view to minimizing the negative information resonance in the civilized world around the persecution religious organizations in the occupied regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions that do not wish to cooperate with militants, the occupation authorities have moved to implement a new algorithm of action:

- Conducting special information activities on the formation of appropriate public opinion on a particular religious organization;

- initiation of "appeals" from provocateurs of special services to local "authorities" and "law enforcers" with statements about the activities within the religious communities of "extremists who distribute dangerous literature";

- Conducting of searches, "discovery" of literature (during searches) and the application of punitive measures against members of the religious community by the occupation authorities as a reaction to such "public appeals".

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IR coordinator explains Moscow Patriarch's upcoming meeting with Bartholomew
06.08.2018 - 15:03

Ukrainian MP and leader of the Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk says head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, is scheduled to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the end of August 2018.

He says the Russian patriarch will visit Constantinople to discuss "problems" related to granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Local Orthodox Church, according to the Greek church publication Vima Orthodoxias, Tymchuk wrote on Facebook.

The visit is nothing but a show-off before the Kremlin on the eve of the meeting of the Council of the Episcopate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate scheduled for September 1-3, according to the MP, who adds that the meeting has "no chance" of putting any pressure on Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew or intimidating him on the "Ukrainian issue."

The visit points at the fact that Moscow has already exhausted all arguments and perfectly understands that they lost this "chess game."

Tymchuk adds: "Besides, the Kremlin is not really satisfied with the Russian Orthodox Church and FSB for their failure in such a strategic direction, thus dealing a crushing blow to the 'Russian world' in Ukraine."

The Russian Orthodox Church and FSB represented by [Patriarch Kirill] Gundyayev and Bortnikov underestimated the threat for them at the very initial stage, because the "Orthodox fifth column" in Ukraine in the person of MP Vadym Novinsky and the exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine claimed everything was under control and the efforts were another "farce" of Ukrainian authorities.

"When Moscow understood that the threat to their influence was real, they had already lost strategic initiative, so all of their ecclesiastical and secular assets (Russian diplomacy and intelligence), information, propaganda and financial potential was thrown into the infobattle, but it was too late," Tymchuk said.

The coordinator stresses: "But, as we see, during the last three months, the Russian 'hybrid efforts' failed to break down the position of Fener and that of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew," he said.

This is confirmed by a recent statement by Constantinople on "Mother Church" issue and that of "Moscow has nothing to do with the Baptism of Kievan Rus." Besides, the Constantinople delegation chose to accept invitation of the Ukrainian side, not Moscow-controlled patriarchate or Moscow, to take part in the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Kievan Rus on July 28.

Speaking of Patriarch Kirill's upcoming meeting with Bartholomew, Tymchuk says: "What can he [Kirill] offer the Ecumenical Patriarch? Nothing new. Anything from the kit of 'Russian hybrid Orthodoxy': crazy money, 'civil war' in Ukraine on religious grounds, or split in world Orthodoxy."

Therefore, Gundyayev's visit is more about trying to justify himself before the Kremlin, claiming "I've done all I could."

According to Tymchuk, there could be all sorts of provocations in Ukraine on the eve of the visit of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Ecumenical Patriarch, as Gundyayev will need "arguments" and "relevant picture," ranging from vandalism and attacks on Moscow-controlled temples claims of "oppression of believers."

"The Ecumenical Patriarch and his team should also be careful about receiving any "gifts" from Moscow! After all, as noted by the British media, Ukraine will receive Tomos if "Novichok" doesn't get in the way..." Tymchuk concludes.
 
IR summary: the payment of wages to militants in "2nd Army Corps LNR" becomes a headache of the command of the occupiers and "MIA LNR"
09.08.2018 - 11:57
Operational data of the IR group

Over the last week, the intensity of fire strikes in the Donbas on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory controlled by Ukraine remained high. In total, units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupation forces carried out more than 200 artillery raids (over the past week-period up to 190) from 122-mm artillery systems, 82/120-mm mortars, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks. The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of the settlements Maryinka, Opytnoe, Peski, Troitskoe, Stanitsa Luganskaya, Gnutovo, Novomikhailovka and Vodyanoe.

In addition, on August 6 this year, the enemy fired on the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 122 mm artillery and 120-mm mortar shells in the area of Krymskoe, Talakovka, Vodyanoe, Gnutovo and Lebedinskoe, which is a gross violation of the agreement on the cultivation of forces in this area.

Duty Artillery and Air Defense units of the Russian occupation forces in the Donbas are in an increased level of combat readiness. The artillery units of 1st and 2ndArmy Corps of the occupation troops have regular training to study the issues of fire damage to AFU as part of reconnaissance and fire contours. In addition, artillery units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of occupiers are intensively carrying out activities aimed at replenishing ammunition stockpiles from rocket and artillery armament storages at the expense of parties being transferred from the Russian Federation.

To ensure the activities of units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces, about 300 tons of petroleum products were delivered to the “DNR” from the territory of the Russian Federation during the last week (last week in “LNR” - 700 tons of fuel).

The introduction of the "separate battalion of special forces" "Legion" into direct subordination of the 1st Army Corps of the "DNR" is planned in August of this year (now it is subordinated to the "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DNR").

During the last week period, the work of journalists from NTV was fixed at 9thseparate assault mechanized regiment of naval infantry (Novoazovsk) and 2ndseparate mechanized brigade (Lugansk).

The lists of people fit for military service were actively updated during the week in the occupied territories.

The scheduled rotation at the advanced positions of 16 BTRO (the so-called "territorial defense battalion" in the "2nd Army Corps LNR") should take place at August 16 of this year, on the day of the payment of wages to militants. In this regard, the employees of the so-called "MIA LNR" predicts a sharp deterioration in the criminal situation in the area of the unit's basement, after which the "MIA LNR" and the command of the "2nd Army Corps LNR" agreed a ban on visiting leisure establishments in the city of Lugansk by militants of the after receiving a salary. However, given the contingent, which is part of the "battalion", the so-called employees of the "MIA LNR" predict a mass non-compliance by militants of this prohibition and a significant increase in the number of criminal offenses, including the use of firearms and explosives.

There is an increase in arrears in payment of wages in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region, which leads to the liquidation of enterprises. In particular, at the state enterprise "Artemugol", indebtedness is 256.4 million rubles, in the Republican unitary enterprise "Ordzhonikidzeugol" - 465.4 million rubles, at the Donbassgulerektrukturizatsiya "- 55.1 million rubles. Currently, the "LNR" has owed more than 100 million rubles to "DNR" for consumed electric energy.

The administration of JSC "Stakhanov Carriage Works" (Kadievka, former Stakhanov, until 2014 - the main Ukrainian producer of freight cars) is trying to restore production and export of products to Russia. However, these intentions are hampered by the fact that the company does not have the appropriate state certificates for freight wagons. A similar situation is observed at the "Transmash" (Lugansk, the production of wheel sets and trolleys for rolling stock of railways), where the validity of the relevant certificates ended in 2015. The Luganskcentrokuz named after M. Monyatovsky is only one enterprise in the "LNR", which continues to manufacture trolleys and wheel sets, that uses certificates of an unidentified sample received in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In August 7 this year in Alchevsk, Lugansk region, militants, detained pastors of the church "Good News" during the morning service without any explanation and put them to the room of the so-called "MGB LNR". At 11.00 on the same day they were released, but a "preliminary trial in the court session" was appointed. The pastors were not acquainted with specific accusations.

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Hybrid "Crusade" of the Kremlin: The Imperial Palestinian Orthodox Society
10.08.2018 - 15:32

It would be naive to believe that the Kremlin's regime rewrote the 10 Commandments of God with the appearance of the so-called "Gerasimov doctrine". Numerous studies and archival "leaks" only confirm that religious structures (in our case, the ROC and its affiliates) have been a tool of the KGB-FSB for a long time and are used by the Russian occupier for carrying out aggressive actions, sometimes, without involving the military component itself. Some strokes from the general picture of the construction of the "Russian world" can be traced through the history and various stages of the activity of the instrument of hybrid aggression of the Russian Federation against the rest of the world - the Imperial Palestinian Orthodox Society (IPOS).

"Peacemakers" of the regime

"Save Russia in the Holy Land" is the motto of the Palestinian Orthodox Society, established in 1882. The name "Imperial" as an honorary title was awarded to the organization in 1889. After the revolution of 1917 the society was divided into 2 parts - Russian and foreign. In the following year, the Russian branch became the "Russian Palestinian Society at the Academy of Sciences."

With the assistance of the Russian Orthodox Church and its curators from the KGB, the historical name with the prefix "Imperial" was returned to the organization in 1992, and it clearly marked its place among the Kremlin's external and internal tools - an intelligence, diplomatic and religious component in the formation and implementation of the political course of the Russian regime.

The IPOS declares the main goal of its activities the assistance to the ROC in its "spiritual and peacekeeping ministration" in Russia, the Middle East (in particular Israel and Palestine), the Mediterranean region and other parts of the world.

"Assistance" is expressed in "upholding the Kremlin's position in the Middle East, the return of Russian property, the strengthening of spiritual, cultural and humanitarian ties between Russia and the peoples and countries of the Middle East" and, of course, the protection of the "fundamental rights of Christians".

The IPOS operates quite legally, on the basis of a bilateral document between the IPOS and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the main Russian diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, is an honorary member of the IPOS. Among other famous people are the Moscow Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev, State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov, the current and former mayors of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin and Yuri Luzhkov, as well as high-ranking confessors, influential businessmen and representatives of Russian science and culture.

Since 2007, the Imperial Palestine Orthodox Society is headed by the FSB representative Sergei Stepashin. He is another representative of the "St. Petersburg clan", who lost his post in 1995 as head of the Federal Security Service because of the terrorist attack in Budennovsk. This failure of the Russian special services did not finish his further career, but it also elevated him to the posts of the first deputy prime minister and head of the Ministry of the Interior Affairs, the prime minister of the Russian Federation. The current "honorific post" for the imperial ambitions of the Kremlin says about the withdrawal of a valuable specialist "in the shade", than about lowering his status.

Sources in Moscow assure that Stepashin and Putin are friends with families, and Sergei Vadimovich himself is an informal leader of people from special services with "liberal views." He is an ideal candidate for conducting hybrid operations of different orientations, from internal - for balancing the groups of special services, discrediting opponents with the help of "fight with corruption to the external - promoting the ideas of the "Russian world" in the area of the interests of the Kremlin, the creation and functioning of self-proclaimed republics", the implementation of hybrid methods of aggression.

Spiritual ties

How IPOS defends the Kremlin's imperial ambitions can be seen in the so-called "Syrian projects". Under the cover of humanitarian activities, which carried out at the expense of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation and implemented with the help of the hierarchs of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and the Supreme Mufti of Syria, the IPOS promotes the advancement of Russian interests. In particular, in connection with such actions, it legitimizes the Russian military presence. Such activity opens up the doors of the Syrian Prime Minister's reception staff, government members, religious and public figures for representatives of IPOS.

Here the favorite methods of the current Kremlin leader are already in play: bribery, blackmail, recruitment that allows influencing on the mass of situations, such as the promotion of economic, political and ideological interests of Moscow.

The IPOS has actually led to the ownership or under sponsorship of the ROC a significant number of Orthodox shrines in Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Jericho and Hebron, which are formally subordinate to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It will be very difficult to return influence over them to Constantinople. Lovers of "spiritual ties" grabbed the relics under the pretext of arrangements by the IPOS and the Russian Foreign Ministry with the leaders of the opposing Israel and Palestine to ensure the safety of sacred places. It's terrible to think how the FSB will manipulate the agreements in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Against Ukrainian autocephaly

The IPOS is one of the main instruments of counteraction to obtaining autocephaly by the Ukrainian local Orthodox Church. As early as the beginning of February 2014, a coordinating group was established under the Ukrainian exarchate of the ROC (the so-called UOC-MP), which included representatives of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Rossotrudnichestvo), the Expert Council under the State Duma and IPOS.

One of the main areas of work of this group was the preparation of world public opinion for the intervention of the Russian Federation in the relations between Ukrainian churches. Kremlin propaganda confidently untwisted the stories about the total "violation of the rights of believers in Ukraine", and the leaders of the IPOS and the ROC conducted "enlightenment" work among religious leaders. Back in 2014, Kirill Gundyaev "worked" with the heads of loyal autocephaly, and the head of the IPOS Sergei Stepashin held a thematic meeting with the Patriarch of Rome and his entourage. "During the meeting, we discussed issues related to the support of Christians in the Middle East, the need for equal activity of all faiths in Ukraine in connection with the situation there, as well as issues related to the promotion and support of Christian family values," Stepashin said after meeting.

Later, the organization contributed to the Russian occupation of the Crimea and part of the Donbass. Its members, in particular, the representatives of the ROC and its exarchate in Ukraine, provided financial assistance to the hybrid armed formations of the aggressor - the Cossacks of the Great Don Army, neo-fascists from the Russian Orthodox Army. They also engaged in recruiting and sending mercenaries to the Donbass.

At present, the main efforts of the IPOS in the Ukrainian direction are focused on the issues of promoting the legalization of quasi-republics "dnr/lnr" and preventing the provision of autocephaly for UOC. In fact, they succeeded in this case. At the so-called Crusade of the Ukrainian exarchate of the ROC, organized by the Orthodox oligarch Novinsky at the expense of Russian taxpayers, the bulk of the crowd were organized by the representatives of the IPOS. This can be seen from the openly demonstrated symbolism of the organization on the clothes of the marchers. But by a strange coincidence, such a "mass" event as it was presented by the Russian media and "agents of influence" in the Ukrainian mass media, did not find a display in the news line of the IPOS website, and the photos published with an emblem of the organization are mercilessly cleaned now in the Internet.

By the way, there are 4 (!!!) branches of the IPOS in Ukraine: in Kiev, Odessa and in occupied Simferopol and Sevastopol.

Failure of the IPOS in Turkey

In 2017, the Imperial Palestinian Orthodox Society tried to legitimize itself in Turkey by opening the Turkish branch of the IPOS. Naturally, under the guise of good intentions - the promotion of Orthodox pilgrimage to the holy land, the development of humanitarian cooperation with the peoples of the Middle East and other assistance to refugees who rushed millions of flows from Syria after the bloody bombings by Russian military.

They tried to involve the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in the game, requesting from him blessings and attending the opening ceremony of the Turkish branch of the Society. To this end, the meeting of Ecumenical Patriarch with the Russian delegation was organized. The representatives of Russian side were the head of the IPOS S.Stepashin, the RF Ambassador in Turkey A.Erkhov, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Istanbul A.Podiolyshev, the Deputy Director of the Department for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and North Africa A.Rudakova and the head of the local branch IPOS Farooq Ogryuk.

The ideas of the followers of the "Russian world" were not supported by Bartholomew. Moreover, they were perceived as an immediate threat to the Orthodox Church of Constantinople and a direct challenge.

And for this, naturally, there were a lot of reasons. Fener knows the nature of the IPOS: "background" of the IPOS in the 19-20 centuries in undermining the authority and discrediting the KOC. Moreover, Constantinople already actively interacts with pilgrim centers, both local churches and other Christian faiths, and facilitates visits to Orthodox shrines, and also works with international charitable organizations that provide assistance to refugees. In the Ecumenical Patriarchate, they could not understand the "special role" of the IPOS controlled by Russian authorities.

As a result, IPOS office in Turkey has not received state registration for legal activities. The reasons are given above. Namely - the negative experience of the work of the Orthodox security officers in Istanbul in the past centuries, of what Fener informed the Turkish authorities.

The refusal, most likely, will only provoke the Kremlin and activate attempts to take the lead in the Orthodox world.

The Kremlin's Crusade

Officially, the IPOS, as the instrument of conducting the hybrid aggression of the Kremlin, has 26 foreign missions. Informal and temporary missions conduct subversive activity in the entire Middle East and the North African region. Offices and representatives of the IPOS (with different status) work in Bulgaria (Varna), Germany (Darmstadt), Greece (Thessaloniki), Cyprus (Larnaca), Palestine (Bethlehem), Israel ( Jerusalem), Jordan (Amman), Latvia (Riga), Estonia (Tallinn), Syria (Damascus), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Respublika Srpska), Montenegro, Lebanon, Moldova, Malta, unrecognized Abkhazia and DMR.

Given the methods of work and curators, all IPOS departments can be called resident agencies, because the Imperial Palestinian Orthodox Society has been transformed into an elite closed military and religious order for long time ago with increasing ambitions to expand its role in the implementation of the diplomatic, propaganda and religious policies of the Kremlin. A powerful FSB-religious background allows them to easily carry out operations to cover intelligence activities, coordinate reconnaissance and sabotage measures, influence on the population and government of interesting regions in Russia, and to pursue a consistent policy of the regime to fool the Russian population also. But about this we will write next time.

Summarizing all mentioned above, it can be noted that the working methods of the FSB clan from St. Petersburg are sharp and effective. But the world is changing and learns to react and resist to the hybrid methods of aggression. An example is the expulsion from Greece of two Russian diplomats connected with the IPOS, accused of interfering in the internal affairs of Greece and in actions directed against the national security of the country, in particular, in gathering information and attempting to bribe Greek officials. That is, in all that we wrote about the IPOS above ...

IR
 
16.08.18 12:29
Ukrainian army reports two soldiers wounded amid 43 attacks by Russian mercenaries
Combined Russian-separatist forces continue violating cease-fire in the Joint forces operation (JFO) zone in order to invite retaliation of the Ukrainian troops to subsequently blame them of disrupting the Minsk accords.
As reported by Censor.NET citing the latest update by the JFO headquarters press service as of Aug. 15, the enemy opened fire on the Ukrainian military 43 times, including six strikes with heavy weapons banned by the Minsk agreements.

"The Russian occupation forces committed deliberate attacks using grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms. They also employed armament of the infantry fighting vehicles 120- and 82-mm mortars against Ukrainian soldiers at separate sections of the forefront. Defenders of Krymske, Novozvanivka, Svitlodarsk, Luhanske, Novoluhanske, Maiorsk, Marinka, Avdiivka, Opytne, Pisky, Krasnohorivka, Novotroitske, Novomykhailivka, Kamianka, Chermalyk, Hnutove, Lebedynske, Pavlopil, Vodiane and Shyrokyne came under the enemy fire. In addition, the invaders shelled the Ukrainian troops deployed on the outskirts of Svitlodarsk and Hnutove with 120-mm mortars and bombarded defenders of Krymske, Luhanske and Hnutove villages with 82-mm mortars," the situation report reads.

The JFO HQ also reported another provocation in the area of disengagement of forces and hardware near Stanytsia Luhanska village where the invaders were shooting at the government forces with small arms.

"Two Ukrainian servicemen were injured in action over the past day," the casualty report says.

Intelligence sources indicate two invaders eliminated and another three wounded yesterday.



 
IR Summary: the command of "1st Army Corps DNR" is afraid of US Intel satellites
22.08.2018 - 10:33

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

During the last week period, the intensity of fire strikes by the Russian occupation forces in the Donbas on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory under Ukraine's control has slightly decreased. In total, the units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational group of the Russian occupation forces carried out about 260 fire attacks (during the last week-period up to 290) from 122 mm artillery systems, 82/120-mm mortars, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks during this period.

The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of settlements Avdeevka, Luganskoe, Gnutovo, Krymskoe and Novgorodskoe. On August 15 and 17 this year, the enemy fired at Ukrainian military units from mortars in the area of Krymskoe and in the direction of Slavyansk in the Lugansk and Novgorodskoe regions, which is a violation of the agreement on the cultivation of forces in these areas. August 16 this year, 6 cases of using "prohibited" weapons are recorded in the Severodonetsk, Slavyansk and Mariupol directions, incl. 122-mm MLRS "Grad". August 19 this year, the enemy fired at Ukrainian Army units from 82/120-mm mortars in the area of Kryakovka, the Krymskoe and in the Avdeevka direction in the Verkhnetoretskoye and Avdeevka areas, which is also a violation of the agreement on the cultivation of forces in these areas.

Duty artillery units and air defense forces of the occupants are in an increased level of combat readiness. Artillery units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces are conduct regular training sessions to study the issues of fire destruction of Ukrainian troops using the reconnaissance and fire contours. In addition, artillery units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps intensively conduct activities aimed at replenishing ammunition stocks from rocket and artillery arsenal stores.

The intensity of air reconnaissance by the enemy remained high. In the period from August 14 to August 20 this year, 20 reconnaissance flights of the UAV of the RF Armed Forces are recorded, incl. 12 flights of UAV Orlan-10, which were carried out flights into the operational-tactical depth of the defense of the Joint forces.

To ensure the terrorist activities of units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces, 12 railway tanks with fuel and lubricants (about 720 tons, railway station Rovenky) were delivered from the territory of Russia, in the period from August 14 to August 20 this year. In addition, tomorrow, August 23 this year, the scheduled delivery of the next (80th) so-called "Humanitarian convoy" from the Russian Federation (50 units of automotive equipment, about 500 tons of cargo) is planned on the territory of the occupied parts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions through uncontrolled checkpoints Izvarino and Uspenka. The last "humanitarian convoy" was July 26 this year (47 units of automotive equipment, about 500 tons of cargo).

The active movement of motor vehicles of the occupants along the N-21 highway is fixed, 3-4 columns a day (mostly army trucks), at least 10 trucks each. In some columns, armored vehicles are noted also (mostly armored personnel carriers). Columns move during the day and at night with ammunition and other items of material and technical supply.

An armored group of the enemy was fixed at the "Bakhmut" route in the region of the Smelyoe. 4 units OF BMP-1/2 and 3 BTRs moved aside Sentyanovka - Zhelobok.

To the south of the Shirokaya Balka, the invaders deployed air defense assets. Two MT-LBs with ZU-23-2 AD systems at positions and a truck with antennas were fixed. Apparently, the militants got the order to prevent the work of the UAV or the AFU in the tactical zone, which can be caused by the regrouping of the units of the occupiers in this area.

On the eastern outskirts of Dokuchaevsk, the movement of the armored vehicles of the invaders has been noted. More than 10 combat armored vehicles (mainly BMP-1) were moved from the unit, occupying positions in the industrial zone, and along the southwestern outskirts of this settlement. In the same area, equipment of several new stronghold points by the enemy is observed in the second line and fragmentary mining of the areas adjacent to the front line. At the same time there are rumors among the city's population that the APU has come close to the outskirts of the city and the positions of the militants, sometimes for a couple of hundred meters.

In a number of districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and Makeyevka, the “MGB DNR” staff, together with the "military commandant's office" and "MVD DNR", conducted a large-scale operation to search for "Ukrainian special operations teams" and "Ukrainian underground". During the filtration activities more than 100 people were detained for "checking and clarifying the person". Most of these events were held in areas directly adjacent to the front line and near the "military facilities".

The headquarters of "1st Army Corps DNR" ("OC Donetsk") spreads the information that "the Americans are transferring data from their satellites to the AFU", in connection with which the next order of command of the Army Corps about the need for proper camouflage of important stationary facilities - command posts of different levels, warehouses, storage facilities, reducing the number of open parking of military equipment and weapons storage sites is appeared. A "flight schedule of US reconnaissance satellites" circulates in the headquarters of units of the "1st Army Corps DNR".

The difficulties with the delivery of water to the front line positions arose in a number of units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the occupation forces. The command of both Corps is forced to take "extraordinary measures" to provide personnel with technical and drinking water. Difficulties have arisen, mainly due to the failure of the transport involved in the delivery (too intensive operation) and a lack of drivers.

The thesis about the alleged imminent start of the AFU offensive in the Donbas for "disrupting the presidential election in Ukraine" became "popular" among the militants of "2nd Army Corps LNR". It is possible that occupants disguise their intention to aggravate the situation at the front on the threshold of the pre-election campaign in Ukraine by the massive spread of such rumors (in order to promote the "party of peace"), preparing the relevant information background in advance.

Rumors are circulating among the "civil servants of the DNR" (mainly middle-level) about the acquisition of certain "visas and residence permits" in a number of Western countries by the top "leadership of the DNR". It is possible that the "push" was the recent receipt, a German working visa by the former head of the "Russian Railways" V. Yakunin (message from Russian media).

Russian "curators" told the leaders of "LNR" about the need to reduce budget expenditures on the realization of the so-called "Humanitarian program for the reunification of the people of Donbass" in the III quarter of this year. A reduction is proposed up to 1 million rubles. At the same time, Russian "curators" demand an increase in the number and scale of activities within the framework of the said "humanitarian program", which causes discontent from the side of the leadership of the "LNR".

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Military parade in Kyiv: video
4,500 Ukrainian soldiers and 250 military hardware along with the military men of 18 countries participated in the parade
10:47, 24 August 2018






 
Getting rid of inconvenient puppet or imitation of death: IR coordinator names versions of Donetsk blast
02.09.2018 - 11:27

The Kremlin needs a less odious figure, without a trace of embezzlement and involvement in shelling of civilians, that's according to a military columnist, coordinator of the Information Resistance OSINT group Yuriy Karin, who commented on DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko's murder.

According to the IR coordinator, the incident explains Putin's future plans to bring to power in Ukraine a pro-Russian president and organize direct talks with Kremlin puppets in Donbas, Karin told Segodnya.

Why did they kill him? To ensure dialogue with the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, this is what Russia is trying to achieve, so that they can happily strike a deal and have the occupied territories return to the bosom of Ukraine in the format of Chechen funding," Karin said.

In addition, the IR coordinator does not rule out the version of the struggle for territory between the FSB and GRU (military intelligence), as a result of which Zakharchenko was "removed", and also suggests Zakharchenko was murdered in blood feud.

The fact that Surkov's crony is killed already raises questions: the FSB is in a clash with the GRU over Donbas ... Or perhaps it's some local 'bloodshed' and another redistribution of assets," says the IR coordinator.

Karin adds that the incident could have been "staged."

"It could be a simulation of death, and soon Zakharchenko will continue to live peacefully somewhere in 'friendly' unrecognized states, rogue states or in places where… Yanukovich and Plotnitsky are staying," the observer says.
 
IR summary: the occupants prepare armed provocations in the Donbas
05.09.2018 - 12:05
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Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

Simultaneously with the intensified attempts by the Russian media and the Russian-controlled occupation administration in the Donbass media to tie the assassination of Zakharchenko by "the Ukrainian special operation team", the occupiers intensely spread rumors about allegedly being prepared large-scale offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbas at September 14 of this year.

According to the "version" of the invaders, the coming "offensive of the AFU" will look like this:

- The operation is allegedly being prepared in the form of simultaneous strikes in three directions and should be conducted up to 5 days (it is not clear where exactly this figure came from);

- For the operation, three strike groupings of the Joint forces allegedly have formed - in the direction of Dokuchaevsk, Gorlovka and Alchevsk. The heavy armored vehicles and artillery are in preparing positions; the AFU units have already received an additional ammunition and equipment;

- Also, according to the version of the militants, fully equipped and armed "eight battalions of the Right Sector" are being sent to the front;

- Ukrainian troops are transferred and concentrated under the cover of the training "Storm-2018". The troops of the "second echelon" allegedly have already been instructed to be ready to go into combat on the 2-3rd day of the operation for its development and strengthening of the onsurge;

- Of course, some "NATO military" and "international mercenaries", who "have already arrived" in the relevant headquarters and Command Posts of the Joint forces, will be in charge of supervising and controlling the "operation";

"The core" of these fabrications of the occupants is constantly supplemented with various "details" - like "inflating the servicemen of the AFU with hatred to the population of Donbass and the militia", or "joining of NATO units in the strike groups of the JF ", etc.

These rumors are disseminated with references to "the information from military intelligence of the DNR". At the same time, actively engaged by the occupiers after the destruction of Zakharchenko, filtration and protective measures with searches of local population in various regions of the occupied territories, actively engaged by the occupiers after the assassination of Zakharchenko, add nervousness and tension to local citizens who are waiting for an "attack of the AFU" from day to day.

Characteristically, these rumors began to spread before the assassination of Zakharchenko, but the incident at the Separ café in Donetsk did not affect their intensity. On the contrary, after the liquidation of the "head of the DNR", the dissemination of information about the "forthcoming attack of the AFU" acquired a more massive character. That, very likely, testifies about the existence and implementation of a target plan of command of the Russian occupation forces to actually provoke further escalation of hostilities in one or more areas of the JF operation with subsequent accusation of the Ukrainian authorities.

This can be confirmed by the fixed military activity of the occupation forces in the tactical zone directly adjacent to the line of demarcation, under the cover of a "school ceasefire". For example:

- A new 4 guns battery of 122 mm cannon-howitzers of the D-30/30A type is fixed in the area east of Dokuchaevsk, already on the occupied firing position and prepared for an immediate opening of the fire;

- northeast of the White Kamenka, the artillery division (up to 8 units) of 122 mm self-propelled guns of 2C1 type "Carnation", deployed on firing positions, is fixed;

- The movement of tanks of the T-72 type (up to the company size) was fixed in the area of Vishnyovy Dol and Lobachevo. Another pair of similar tanks is trenched and disguised to the north of Novosvetlovskaya station;

- in the area south-west of Gorlovka between Ozeryanovka and Mikhailovka, a pair of mobile tactical SAMs of the 9K35 Strela-10 type deployed in positions (most likely, the invaders are trying to prevent the conduct of aerial reconnaissance by AFU, and the OSCE mission - in monitoring traffic on the site of road between Yasinovatoya and Gorlovka, passing directly near the front lines and used by militants as a lateral road).

- The invaders organized almost a round-the-clock observation of the movements in the units of the AFU from the neutral strip, defending on a number of sectors. Also, militants try to make sudden shelling of the front edge of the JF by the same raid groups;

- To complete its advanced units, the headquarters of "1st Army Corps DNR" used up to 900 people from its "reserves", bringing their number to an average of 60% of the staff.

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The command of the "3rd separate mechanized brigade of the 1st Army Corps DNR" states that they cannot keep a solid front around Gorlovka. For this reason, the invaders were forced to organize "fragmentary defense" at once in several sectors. In turn, the headquarters of the "1st Army Corps DNR" (OK "Donetsk"), by the instructions of the Russian command, are working out various options in the forced regime for actions in case of an aggravation in this region and the need for urgent assistance to units of the 3rd separate mechanized brigade. At the moment, "duty artillery facilities" have been identified, and the formation of several reserve groups on armored vehicles (up to a platoon) has also begun by the occupiers, which are ready for the immediate movement and strengthening of advanced units from the number of the 3rd separate mechanized brigade and the reserve.

At the same time, the command of the occupiers in the "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" is intensively trying to "mobilize" experienced drivers to complete the units. First of all, we are talking about those, who perform tasks near the front line.

In the "16th battalion of territorial defense of the 2nd Army Corps LNR", the command of the militants was exported the "mutual benefit fund" to the territory of the Russian Federation (the so-called "slush fund" of the unit). For this reason, the wounded and sick militants of this unit have left without medication and the possibility of full treatment. At the present time, individual fighters of the 16thbattalion of territorial defense (on the initiative of the militant with the call sign "Tea") are trying to understand the situation with regard to the "slush fund" of the battalion.

The local residents express dissatisfaction with frequent searches and blockings the roads by occupants in Dokuchaevsk. At the same time, the militants try to complicate the gathering of information by the JF headquarters about the movements of the units of the occupation troops in the area of Dokuchaevsk.

"MGB LNR" reported to the leadership of "LNR" about the increased "pro-Ukrainian actions" in the settlements in the south of the occupied part of the Lugansk region (Dolzhansk, Antratsit, etc.). First of all, we are talking about multiple cases of tearing "flags of the LNR" from administrative buildings and in public places, followed by their demonstrative throwing into garbage cans or burning. Similar actions are held at night.

"Yasinovka Coke and Chemical Plant" (Makeyevka) operates at 30% of the total capacity. The staff of the company works only one week per month.

There is a low level of wages of medical workers (an average of about 8,500 rubles) in "DNR". This situation leads to an outflow of staff and a shortage of medical workers, which is about 5,500 people at this time (over the past six months, 370 doctors have resigned).

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