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This stunning text is worth reading in its entirety. Militia “volunteer” Evgeny Sergeev writes on his VKontakte his memories of “Batman”, in whose group he spent six months. As a result, this turns out to be a text about the entire LPR and the order in it, and not just about Batman. Judging by Sergeev’s page, he returned home to Russia just a month ago, under New Year. The RRT that is often mentioned is Batman's "Rapid Response Team".

Sergeev, apparently, is not a fake or a propaganda invention, real person with real VKontakte, with a long feed of posts, photos and videos from Lugansk and Slavyansk, starting back in May. He fought against the Ukrainian side for six months, and now, quite sincerely, he continues to be for Novorossiya and against the Ukrops. Its text speaks for itself. It was published in five parts on his VKontakte (the last part was published three days ago and “To be continued”).

Evgeniy Sergeev, RBI "Batman". About Alexander Bednov

At the moment, this personality has two diametrically opposed poles when assessing him as a leader and as a person. This is understandable - his violent and sudden death still has both political and moral significance, and the actors in Novorossiya and idle Internet onlookers and spectators split into two opposite camps - the first due to their ambitions and the degree of closeness to him during his lifetime, the latter in accordance with the laws of crowd behavior, always greedy for the base and primitive pleasures of any public bloody spectacle, from bullfighting to gladiatorial fights and boxing matches inclusive. Some always root for the Reds, while others always root for the Blues...

In addition, I believe that my thoughts about him also have the value that I knew him personally, served under his command for more than six months and, not being part of his inner circle, I am free from the temptation of both unbridled praise and selfish, momentary and opportunistic throwing mud at him. And in general, I am, apparently, the only one from the entire former RBI “Batman” who, in one way or another, speaks and has the opportunity to quite clearly convey his observations to his address.

So let's start with its genesis.

Since the spring, Bednov was initially part of Mozgovoy’s group and was not in the very first roles there, but then such a nuisance happened as an attempt to murder Mozgovoy by his, let’s say, comrades in arms - he was invited to a meeting at the Regional State Administration, was arrested and put in a basement in expecting imminent and inevitable death from a “heart attack.” But times were still simple then, and maybe people were more determined than now, but Mozgovoy was eventually released, since eighty of his fighters surrounded the Regional State Administration and, under the threat of burning such a representative building, demanded his release. (We note that apparently for this reason Bednov was not arrested at the Regional State Administration an hour before the murder - they were afraid of a repetition of the May events).

Lesha, don’t be a fool, immediately retired to the north of the region in the Lisichansk area, away from such nimble and ardent “heroes of Novorossiya,” but he needed someone who would take the risk of action in Lugansk itself, and that’s where Batman appears and takes on the functions of representing Mozgovoy’s interests in the capital. (And as we see, this was his fatal mistake, since Mozgovoy is alive, but Bednov is not). He is allocated 12 people, given access to Russian sponsors and the arsenal. And here all of Bednov’s organizational talent, which so effectively helped him create the GBR, manifests itself. The main fighting force of the militia is Russian volunteers, and he is doing everything to direct part of their flow to the GBR. He puts Abkhaz at the Severny checkpoint and negotiates with all those smugglers who illegally transfer volunteers across the border in the Donetsk Rostovsky-Izvarino area to send these volunteers to him. Remembering myself and my guys, I now understand that this was a brilliant move. We crossed the border at random, we had no information about active resistance groups, and we didn’t care which group we ended up in - we were only interested in the fight against fascism and the desire to avenge Odessa. But this was not the case in Lugansk itself - the field commander who had more “bayonets” would then ultimately determine the situation in the LPR. Therefore, they competed quite fiercely with each other for Russian “cannon fodder”.

At first, Bednov’s group was a motley and inexperienced gang that did not quite understand with what enemy it had decided to measure its strength. The first and only battle in which Bednov personally took part was a counterattack on dill in the Metalist area on June 17, 2014. On my first day of service for the benefit of Novorossiya. Our group did not have time to take part in the battle, since we arrived at the location late in the evening, and only closer to midnight, after the end of the clash, Bednov lined us up, still dressed in civilian clothes, and made a very long and heartfelt speech (he generally loved to talk speech), accepted us into the unit. But according to the surveys of participants, an unattractive picture emerged for me. All thirty people drove out to the battlefield in cars, and right in front of the dill they began jumping out of them and firing in all directions. As I now understand, they were then saved from complete defeat by Barbie, a 57-year-old elderly Russian militiaman from Krasnodar, who pinned the dill to the ground with the fire of his double-barreled ZU-23, placed directly on the “jihadmobile” - on a Japanese jeep pickup truck. The Ukrops, caught in an open field by such a destructive “Caesar’s chariot,” abandoned their weapons and fled, but then their snipers and machine gunners came into action, and now it was time for the GBR to retreat in panic, abandoning their weapons and the wounded. So Barbie, wounded on the battlefield, was abandoned by his friend “Novoross” (I no longer remember the call sign of this bastard), for the reason that “If I had started dragging him, I would have been killed too.” Barbie radioed that he was wounded and asked for help, but in vain, the militia had already fled. The dill surrounded him and finished him off with a shot in the heart, and disfigured his face by cutting off his left ear. This bastard did not suffer any punishment. Moreover, he then showed off his good looks, proudly prancing around the barracks, hung with as many as three pistols.

As I have already noted, from that very battle Bednov avoided not only personally commanding the battlefield, but, over time, even simply visiting the “hot” spots of the defense of Lugansk. When some staff members invited him to personally visit our positions near Smelye in October 2014, he wisely declined such a dubious honor, clarifying that he was “not a fool.” He really was never a fool, since there was a very high probability of his not returning from there, from this cauldron that was fatal both for us and for the dill....

The shock of that first battle showed everyone, not only Bednov, but also his emerging circle, that the time for jokes and slogans had passed irrevocably, and that there was a very high probability of their very rapid and painful transformation “into pieces of human meat and into scraps from torn people.” (I quote verbatim what I then heard from Janek, one of his closest favorites). This was the reason for the sharp split of the GBR into two parts that had absolutely no communication with each other - into the combat, front-line core and into the so-called “Special Department”.

These were people who had hardly ever seen even a dead dill, let alone a living one (with the exception of those wounded prisoners whom we transported to our hospital). They took up all the mouse movement that is now being blamed on Bednov. The main activity of these “gopolchentsev” became, naturally, requisitions, expropriations, all kinds of squeezes, trade in humanitarian aid and racketeering. In addition, judging by some indirect evidence, we can talk about money received from relatives who were extorted for their release, and Bednov also organized his own hospital, a matter at first glance that is very necessary and noble, if you do not take into account the fact that that, according to rumors, he put under his control all the pharmacies in the eastern part of Lugansk, and where, with the help of this very hospital, he had the opportunity to hand over all the medical humanitarian aid coming from Russia for direct sale. But, naturally, Tigra, the head of the hospital from Novorossiysk, can tell you more about this.

Complete freedom of hands, a lot of free time, closeness to the “body”, a sense of imaginary security, frequently changed wrung out business class cars, suddenly acquired wealth and complete impunity regarding the life and death of peaceful Luhansk residents drove these unfortunate bastards crazy. You should have seen the attitude of these smart guys who settled in and settled down towards us - towards the soldiers' "rabble". Full of arrogance and even some kind of pitiful contempt for our idealistic desire to stand up for the women and children of Donbass, at first they behaved down on us, did not consider us as people and stayed away from us.

Then, when many of us rightfully gained fame for our military deeds, they began to fear and curry favor with us, realizing that after all that we had gone through, it would not have been difficult for us, desperate and seasoned people, to deal with this a hedonistic and decayed community of cowards and poseurs, avoiding the front and its refreshing “charms” with all their might - stepping on one foot, pulling the other, and saying that’s how it happened.

And this desire grew more and more. I, as a Russian, understood that sooner or later, the force on which Novorossiya relied and relies—Great bourgeois Russia—would not allow us to so deftly fool around with property rights and the rights of citizens in the territory adjacent to it. So as not to set a seductive and contagious example for your own fellow citizens. And that sooner or later, these excesses will be correctly assessed and correctly resolved. Another thing is that a helpful fool is always worse than an enemy...

However, Bednov would not be interesting to others and would not be so hated by his enemies if he could only be characterized as a stilted and primitive operetta villain. This personality was as contradictory and complex as the process of formation of Novorossiya itself was complex and contradictory. He, and this is undoubtedly, is a real hero of the defense of Lugansk, and he will forever remain one of the founding fathers of New Russia, and in the future, of the free and brotherly Ukrainian state.

This man had both the talent and the will to create the most effective combat militia unit in the LPR - the Rapid Reaction Group. Starting from scratch, making mistakes and acting, acting again and making mistakes again, he gradually, not all at once, but gathered around himself a team of fighters and managers on whom he could fully rely. He always looked at the future and never put it off. Whatever he planned or promised, he systematically brought it to life. Back in June, during the formation, he promised that the GBR would definitely have its own “masuta”, that is, its own auto and armored units, and despite any difficulties, he achieved his goal. The organization of the already mentioned hospital also took place quickly and professionally, and this saved the lives of many, very many - both militiamen, civilians, and even captured and mutilated ukropatriots in battles.

In terms of supplies, the GBR units have always stood out very favorably from the rest of the militias - “Zarya”, “Don”, Seventh Checkpoint, Leshy and Lisov. Against their background - ragged, dressed in assorted semi-civilian underwear, eating almost from hand to mouth, and armed with "karamultuks", units of the GBR always looked like some kind of space landing rangers, - with the most modern weapons, in brand new, brand new uniforms, with personal protective equipment, transport and communications. The food supply was always at its best - we always had everything. Moreover, we always shared numerous surpluses of food, cigarettes and medicines with the civilian population and with our ragged and hungry comrades. Bednov himself disbanded the three-platoon division of the GBR combat unit, which had proven to be ineffective. He removed people unsuitable for combat work from command positions and switched to a system of staffing the unit with separate combat detachments under the command of dashing and desperate father-commanders. Names such as Kamaz, Ratibor, Prince, Orel, Kinder and Plastun are the true face of the Batman GBR. It is they who have gained and are still gaining military glory for this unit. They instilled in the units the strictest discipline, the true spirit of soldierly brotherhood and selflessness. Selfless faith in the rightness of the all-Russian cause and readiness for sacrifice. We, front-line soldiers and soldiers, never dared to raise a hand against someone peaceful and unarmed, to insult or humiliate someone, to deprive someone of their property or livelihood. All our horizons and prospects were limited only by the deadly, dangerous struggle, the rough and ennobled life of a soldier, cheap cigarettes and precious male friendship. Each of us was happy being there, in the SBI unit, and this is also the direct merit of “Batman”. He constantly emphasized in his nightly speeches at inspections that we are the best, that we are pure, that we do not engage in squeezes and robberies, that we fight, that we are a simple people abandoned by all governments and gods, that our duty is to help people, and not to multiply their already innumerable sorrows and ongoing misfortune. At these moments, his blue, very expressive eyes lit up with some kind of inspiring and soft light, and we all believed that, despite all the mouse excesses happening around us, still wearing the bat of the unit on our sleeve is a big and obliging thing. honor. We believed, getting ready again for the next trip and going to our everyday and bloody work, that there was no one but us to defend Novorossia, that our cause was just, that all these misunderstandings were a manifestation civil war And social revolution and that they will definitely be overcome, all those responsible will be punished, and our sacrifices will not be in vain. In addition, the glory of the GBR was already ahead of itself. Many fighters not only from Lugansk, but also from the DPR, sought to join the GBR in order to fight and fight for real. And in Lugansk itself, the Lugansk residents themselves have already begun to respectfully decipher the abbreviation GBR as “State Security of the Republic.”

By the end of the summer of 2014, Bednov “dumped” Mozgovoy and himself tried on the Napoleonic epaulets of an independent field commander. As you can see from the results political activity, he did it clearly in vain and at the wrong time. But that’s how he was - he wanted everything at once. The loss of such a patron as Mozgovoy, however, over time, exposed all his vulnerability and isolation from other centers of power in the LPR. At first, when the fate of Novorossiya hung in the balance, it was not so obvious and deadly, but after the situation stabilized, his “precocity” and his ungrateful behavior towards his former patron showed his competitors that they should not believe his oaths, not a word from him.

His ambitions inevitably dragged him there - to the dirty and broken crossing between Lutugino and Georgievka...

The general public, of course, remembers that shameful day in August 2014, when almost the entire leadership of the Lugansk People's Republic and paramilitary forces close to it panicked, in a huge column in luxurious executive cars, filled with cash and jewelry, abandoning both the population and those who remained faithful to the mercy of fate. the idea of ​​fighting to the end of the militias - they ended up on the territory Russian Federation. It seemed to them, after the complete encirclement of Lugansk, that the game was over and it was time to “pack the bags and go to Moskalyovka.”

Bednov and Plotnitsky, unlike them, did not do this. And for this alone one can forgive a lot of these people for their courage and composure in those fateful days. They stayed in Lugansk and fought to the end.

This funny incident not only deprived the defense of Lugansk of eight hundred of its defenders, but removed Bolotov and his entire team from the political arena. And “this is where the war began,” as Thucydides wrote...

Bednov attempted the unthinkable, from the point of view of the main players in the LPR - he decided to become the Head of the Republic.

No sooner said than done. The Liberation Front social movement is immediately created, signatures are collected, its activists are recruited from the GBR fighters, and lists of candidates for deputies are drawn up People's Council, posters and campaigning for Bednov begin to be hung, work is being carried out with the population. San Sanych appears more and more often on television and the Internet. During the bravura and sweet-hopeful constructions, I sometimes got the impression that if Bednov himself had not wanted to become the President of the Republic, then the hangers-on and sweet-voiced flatterers and sing-alongs crawling before him would have dragged him to the throne almost by force. The GBR headquarters was then full of joyful and pathetic bustle. Persons close to His Imperial Majesty were already clearly burdened by the unpretentious and modest, almost Spartan atmosphere of the former student dormitory. They were already dreaming of the velvet carpets and polished oak parquet of the Presidential Palace, where they, in the noble and representative silence of the parliamentary and ministerial offices, would wisely and fruitfully decide the fate of financial flows and the sea of ​​spilled humanitarian aid. And only a mere trifle - the time allotted for voting and counting the votes cast for them - stood between them and their dazzling future.

Naturally, the election process was not without incidents.

It should be noted that interesting fact, that just before the entrance to the GBR camp, at the Mashin Institute, from morning to evening, relatives of those detained by the Commandant’s Platoon, another monstrous creation, were crowded dark side Bednova (We’ll talk about him later. Let’s leave the sweetest part, so to speak, for dessert).

And in the midst of this large crowd of people exhausted by the unknown and fear for the fate of their loved ones, a thick theatrical poster stand stood proudly and arrogantly, completely hung with bright election posters campaigning for Bednov and his “Liberation Front.” One must think that it is difficult to imagine a more effective PR... Direct, so to speak, and visual campaigning among voters... But this is so, some features of madness and surrealism were noticed, not without inner amazement, by an ordinary machine gunner... And it’s true, - after all, all these people, one way or another, were waiting for the Liberation from Bednov... for their relatives from the basement...

However, this whole venture ended in nothing. Dreams were shattered, and again, once again, faith in Humanity was lost... When trying to submit documents for registration of a social movement, Bednov was shown his place - the documents for registration were not accepted, and during the most solemn and long-awaited procedure for their submission They opened fire on representatives of the State Bureau of Investigation right in the department of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the LPR, injuring three people.

Well, what can you say to this?

Direct military democracy in action:

Bullet in response to a submitted application.

Thermobaric flamethrower charge as a visa.

A directed landmine, as a form of non-verbal negative response from a higher authority to a signed petition.

A nine-millimeter “olive” of a “Fort” pistol into the left temporal lobe of the brain, as a sanction for an overdeveloped speech apparatus.

Do not go, my dear readers, to the elections to the representative bodies of the LPR.

You will be healthier.

To the members of the Special Department, as artistic and vulnerable individuals and “not going to appear where they are shooting” (I am conveying verbatim what one of them told me, a front-line soldier, with amazing frankness and shamelessness. You can evaluate the degree of their “chosenness” and conceit) , first of all, what was needed was a brute and regular armed force, not close enough to Batman to seriously share with it, but, at the same time, so covered in all sorts of excesses and spin-offs that, on occasion, it will keep his mouth shut and meekly do all the necessary dirty work. The Commandant's Platoon became such a force. His initial task was to guard the GBR base and maintain order and discipline in the area. However, at the very moment when this “combat unit” was born, neither the Machine Institute itself nor the adjacent neighborhoods shuddered or shuddered. And it should. For this “bell” rang, first of all, for them...

At the foundation of the building of discipline, as in memorable times when laying the foundation of pagan temples and temples, it was decided to make a human sacrifice. This unprecedented honor fell to a local militia with the romantic call sign “Italy.” At that time, the “Novorossians” did not yet dare to kill Russian citizens, but after the death of Batman’s Russian guards, this annoying restriction has now been finally lifted by the fact of their impunity and cowardly silence.

Italy had recently moved his wife and children to Russia, and apparently felt this very strongly as his personal tragedy. Many began to notice his increasing inadequacy and emerging features nervous breakdown. And it finally took place. Two weeks after his family left to emigrate, he left his position without permission and returned to Lugansk, where he began to drunkenly “build” some teenagers drinking on the street. There he was detained and disarmed. I cannot say who and how decided his fate, but a few days later he was taken to the former GBR base, allowed to smoke his last cigarette, and after that a masked executioner executed him by shooting him point-blank with a pistol. His corpse, according to rumors, was either thrown into the river or buried in one of the many mortar craters. Thus, a true patriot of his country, who did not flee abroad, like most Donbass residents, and did not hide behind his wife and children as an excuse for his cowardice, but who stood up with arms in hand to defend his hometown, was extrajudicially put to death, despite the fact that in his hands there was no human blood, no female chastity, not a single hryvnia squeezed out and appropriated.

I believe that he deserved anything but death.

Having educated themselves in this way, the Commandant's Platoon enthusiastically began to carry out their direct duties. The “basement”, which previously existed at an amateur level, began to acquire the features of a professional and qualified assembly line. The victims of his dungeons were mainly civilians caught and kidnapped on the streets of Lugansk, owners of vehicles they liked, houses, cottages and apartments, as well as representatives of the Lugansk business community who were subject to “special treatment” and had the imprudence to stay and continue working in the besieged city. We must understand that here there was least of all arbitrariness and tyranny. People were detained precisely in order to constantly have a source of free labor at hand. Simply put, slaves were needed.

Naturally, due to their Slavic character, these were not the prisoners of the notorious Caucasian zindans starved to death and deprived of fingers and ears. In comparison, the conditions of “work” and release were much more humane.

Having fallen into the hands of Chechen, Luish, Phobos and Maniac, the prisoner was treated almost in a friendly manner with a thick plastic pipe and legs, after which he went to the damp and hospitable dungeon of the basement of the student dormitory, with hard work washing away the shame of owning an expensive car, the grave guilt of living in the immediate vicinity from the Machine Institute and the sin of getting noticed by the law enforcement group on the wide avenues of Lugansk.

Having worked from hand to mouth for a month, having fallen under the hot hand five times and showing obedience and humility, the reformed offender happily skipped out of the walls of the GBR, which had become almost family to him.

The fate of those who in one way or another attracted the special attention of the knights of the pipe and dagger was more difficult.

Usually it all started with a welcome shot in the leg in the knee area. Then, after providing him with first aid (We had our own hospital, remember?), the prisoner was dragged into the room for a heart-to-heart talk. There he was trimmed with various improvised devices - clubs, hammers, shovels, butts and surgical instruments. After which the unfortunate man was put on a chain and there he, most likely, either “escaped” or died of a “heart attack.”

Naturally, at first we all justified both the activities of the basements and the activities of the Maniac. Firstly, at that time there was no law and order on the streets of Lugansk, and it seemed to us that our comrades were fulfilling this role. And where there is law and order, you cannot do without prisons. Moreover, Lugansk was then overwhelmed by a tsunami of crime and decay, the inevitable companions of war and anarchy. Just look at the “combat group” of the KGB militia, widely known in narrow circles, which in the period from July to August 2014 robbed at least one and a half thousand abandoned Luhansk apartments until its “fight for Novorossiya” was stopped. These people robbed in trains...

In addition, one should not discount the wave of spy mania and the feverish search for saboteurs and mortar terrorists. And she had every reason. At the headquarters of the National Guard battalion “Kyiv-1” we somehow found a hastily abandoned logbook recording the work of artillery gunners “working” in Lugansk. It was a very, very large ledger, with phone numbers, names and results. Maniac “split” one such artillery commander, a suspicious man with a soldier’s bearing and a piping on the back of his head, who we detained before our eyes, breaking two shovels on him in the courtyard of our barracks on the Veselenky farm. He was then found with radio equipment and $2,000 in cash. Another 60 thousand “green” were on the bank card seized from him.

And the very regime of our stay at the base did not allow us to fully receive and evaluate information about the Maniac’s activities. In those short days We had no time to gather rumors and information while staying in the barracks between combat missions. However, as always, sooner or later, the quantity of information gradually and inevitably began to turn into quality.

The very widespread use of slave labor in all spheres of life in the GBR was simply shocking. People were not shy and shamelessly used prisoners in all dirty and hard work, from cleaning the territory and digging trenches to cooking. I was simply amazed how quickly the militia got used to this order of things and considered it natural. Showing neither pity nor compassion for his former fellow citizens and countrymen. This callousness pointed to something that I could not understand or define, and it bothered me, as sometimes this or that word bothers me, which you just can’t remember and therefore forget it even more.

There was no contempt from a warrior for a non-warrior. Since the prisoners were also very actively used by the civilian, mostly female staff of the State Bureau of Investigation, who never in their lives risked it and did not put it on the card table of armed confrontation every day as a minimum bet. There was no general fashion for ostentatious, brutal violence and cruelty, without following which in public, you would lose something in the eyes of your colleagues and subordinates. Not at all. The very ordinariness and routine of coercion, its naturalness and spontaneity, told me something that I could not understand. And it was necessary to understand this, because without such an understanding, all our sacrifices and efforts were devalued and desecrated. But one day, I remembered my cherished word. This happened when I heard this phrase from Sasha. “We threw off some beavers to put others on our necks. But these are the same beavers.”

1) Brigade Vostok.
The battalion was formed by local militias and has nothing to do with the Chechen unit of the same name. The head of the battalion, Alexander Khodakovsky, is the head of the DPR Security Service, the head of the “Patriotic Forces of Donbass” and the former commander of the “Alpha” special unit of the SBU Directorate of the Donetsk region.
According to Ukrainian media reports, the battalion is staffed by former employees of the Ukrainian special services (Alpha, Berkut) and Russian volunteers.
Until July 9, together with the Oplot battalion, he controlled Donetsk, Snezhnoye and Shakhtersk, and until August 9 - Saur-Mogila.
2) GBR Batman
The group specializes in combating enemy agents, fire spotters, gunners, mobile mortar crews and enemy DRGs. If necessary, can carry out cleaning settlements from small enemy forces, has a wide arsenal of small arms and its own armored vehicles captured from the enemy in battles - there is even 1 T-64 tank. The commander of this group has the call sign "Batman", which is why this group, known as the RRT (Rapid Response Group), is usually called the "Batman" RRT. Hence the characteristic symbol of the unit.
3) Zarya Battalion.
The Zarya battalion is the largest armed formation of the LPR militia, a unit of the Army of the South-East. The battalion is named after the Luhansk football club. The headquarters is located in the building of the regional military registration and enlistment office of Lugansk. The battalion commander was initially Major Igor Plotnitsky (who later became the head of the LPR), later Andrei Patrushev.
The battalion was formed on May 5, 2014 in Lugansk on the basis of the regional military registration and enlistment office. On May 28, the battalion took part in the blockade of Ukrainian military unit 3035 in Lugansk. The consecration of the banner according to the Orthodox rite took place on May 29, 2014.
According to the Ukrainian side, the battalion took part in the defense of Lugansk and suffered heavy losses in the area of ​​the Metalist village on June 19. For their part, the militia stated that in the battles for Metalist it was they who managed to defeat the pro-Ukrainian Aidar battalion. During that battle, the battalion soldiers managed to capture Ukrainian senior lieutenant Nadezhda Savchenko.
According to historian Igor Pykhalov, who fought as part of the battalion, most of the fighters in the Zarya battalion were born in the Lugansk region, aged from 18 to 59 years. At the same time, there are few very young people, and mostly those who are over 25-30 years old are fighting: “The locals take up arms according to the principle ‘the enemies burned their home’.” According to the militia, many of them did not even serve in the army. People of various professions took up arms. Also, approximately 10% are volunteers from Russia.
4) Battalion Kalmius.
The Kalmius battalion is an armed formation of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Often called a battalion in the media special purpose. The commander at the end of June is Konstantin Kuzmin. The name comes from the river of the same name, one of largest rivers in Donbass. One of the largest “militia” detachments, according to some sources, was initially formed exclusively from volunteer miners.
The battalion received its baptism of fire on June 26-27, 2014 in Donetsk, after the militia occupied the territory of military unit 3004 of the Internal Troops of Ukraine. It was formed a week earlier on June 21. The core of the battalion consists of miners, initially numbering about five hundred people, but it is also known that Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers (at least one) have transferred to service. It is because of this core that the unit is often called a “mining battalion.” It is the first armed formation created by the DPR “from scratch.” Initially, the formation was commanded by Fyodor Berezin, who later became Igor Strelkov’s deputy.
5) Battalion Oplot
The "Oplot" battalion is an armed formation (initially staffed by a battalion) as part of a motorized rifle brigade, which was included in the Ministry of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The commander is Major Alexander Zakharchenko, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (according to Ukrainian media) or a 6th category electromechanical technician (according to his own statement).
Initially, “Oplot” was formed in Kharkov, in January 2014, as an anti-Maidan organization based on the organization Oplot of Evgeniy Zhilin (the club’s symbol was a rhinoceros and the slogan “live strong”). On April 16, 2014, 20 activists of the organization occupied the building of the Donetsk City Council and demanded a referendum on the status of the Donetsk region.
At the end of May 2014, Oplot took under protection the residence of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov in Donetsk. Known as a battalion since June 2014. At the end of July, battalion soldiers took part in the battles for Donetsk airport and Kozhevnya.
6) OBMG Somalia.
An armed formation on the territory of the DPR, headed by Mikhail Sergeevich Tolstykh - call sign Givi. Took part in the battles for Ilovaisk and the storming of Donetsk airport. Arose from the so-called "Givi group". Recently merged with the Sparta battalion.
7) The “Ghost” Brigade is an armed formation taking part in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Leads fighting against the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while not subordinate to the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic and is in conflict with the Don Cossacks of the AMG VVD. It is under the command of a native of the Lugansk region, Don Cossack Alexei Mozgovoy.
As of mid-summer 2014, the battalion's strength was estimated at 600 fighters. The headquarters was located on the territory of the Lisichansk glass factory. They were armed with ATGMs, anti-aircraft missiles and small arms.
Despite this, the unit operated on the territory of the Lugansk region, Mozgovoy’s detachment was more associated with former minister defense of the Donetsk People's Republic by Igor Strelkov. In particular, the retreat from Lisichansk was declared as the execution of Strelkov’s order.
Mozgovoy's group formed in Luhansk during the April 2014 protests as a self-defense unit and was originally called the "People's Militia of Luhansk Region". At that time she was only a platoon. After a conflict with the leadership of the Army of the South-East, NOL left Lugansk and was initially based in summer camps near Olkhovka, then near Antratsit and Sverdlovsk (the Yaseni camp site, bombed on May 27).
On May 21, 2014, the detachment appeared in Lisichansk. The group held defenses in the area of ​​​​the city of Rubezhnoye in June-July 2014. Then the battalion commander was Alexander Kostin
As a result of reinforcements, by the end of the summer the battalion had reached brigade size and became known as the "Ghost" brigade; at the beginning of September its number was 1,000 people. In addition to residents of Ukraine and the Lugansk region, volunteers from Russia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and other countries in Europe and even America are fighting in the brigade. Among them are professional military men, special services officers, Cossacks, and once ordinary civilians.
8) Cossack National Guard of the All-Great Don Army named after Platov.
An armed formation created in late April - early May 2014 during the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine from unregistered Don Cossacks. It is staffed by both Russian citizens and the local population. The Cossack National Guard opposes both Ukrainian government forces and the formations of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic.
Detachments of armed Don Cossacks began to arrive on the territory of the Lugansk region on May 3, when they raised the Flag of the Don Army over the administration of the city of Anthracite. According to media reports, at the beginning of June they controlled 9 cities of the Lugansk region: Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Stakhanov, Bryanka, Alchevsk, Krasny Luch, Antratsit, Sverdlovsk and Perevalsk.
In mid-July, Cossack units national guard fought in the area of ​​​​the cities of Lisichansk - Severodonetsk - Rubezhnoye. Ataman Kozitsyn admitted heavy losses among personnel.
At the end of August, reports appeared that the atamans of the Cossack National Guard planned to create a Dzungarian regiment, which would include volunteers from Kalmykia. According to some sources, between 25 and 30 ethnic Kalmyks serve in the Cossack National Guard.
KNG controls the cities of Antratsit, Stakhanov and Pervomaisk, and until July 29 it controlled Debaltsevo. Since the beginning of June, he has been in conflict with the leadership of the self-proclaimed LPR, and since the end of July - with the “Ghost” battalion of Alexei Mozgovoy. The formation was sharply criticized by Igor Strelkov, who accused the Cossacks of fleeing positions in the Krasnoliman direction in early June 2014.
9) The detachment named after Jovan Shevich (Serbian unit “Jovan Sheviћ”; or Slavic Chetnik detachment) is a Serbian volunteer detachment that came to the aid of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR in the confrontation with the Ukrainian army, consisting of modern Chetniks.
The detachment is named after the commander of the Serbian hussar regiment Jovan (Ivan) Shevich, who in 1751 accepted Russian citizenship and became the founder of the autonomous region of Slavyanoserbia, which was located on part of the territory of the modern DPR and LPR.
A small detachment of Serbian soldiers

On December 5, representatives of the Sevastopol Cossacks, among whom was Vladimir Drevetnyak, gathered at the Government building.

In January, Vladimir Grigorievich, along with other patriotic public figures, restored the monument to Kazarsky, desecrated by vandals

Then he and I, a former naval officer, captain of the third rank, and in civilian life a specialist in working with stone, a deputy of the municipality of the Gagarinsky district, met.

During the past year, almost no public event in Sevastopol takes place without Cossacks. Now we have brighter reasons for getting ready. Today the issue of the inclusion of the Cossacks (how many of them there will be, what kind of troops, what it will look like) is being decided on the Council of the Governor of Sevastopol for the Cossacks.

Namely, what troops do you belong to?

We have the Sevastopol special department (regiment) of the Terek Cossack army. The command - the ataman - of this army, which is located in Vladikavkaz, officially recognized us and brought us the banner of the Sevastopol special department of the Terek Cossack army. We have a seal, everything is as it should be.

I am the chieftain, at the same time the deputy for the rear of this regiment, plus the chieftain of the Gagarin hundred. (Hundreds are the battalions into which the regiment is divided). In total there are five district hundreds in Sevastopol. Our army is the largest and one of the most combative. In general, there are many different Cossack troops in Sevastopol. We have all gathered now and will decide our organizational matters: what departments there will be, who will occupy what positions and whether they will occupy them, and so on.

Will the question of helping Novorossiya be raised there?

Many people call me and talk about this. I will try to raise this issue. But in my personal opinion, while official representatives of the government, big government people in Russia at the official level, clearly should not take part in this today. Just as citizens, as private individuals, if they want, then yes.

Can you somehow explain this, give reasons?

Yes, definitely. Firstly, the most unpleasant thing is the attitude towards this situation in the world, the desire of the world community to influence Russia in this conflict. Therefore, I would not give another reason for now. As they say, the dog barks, the caravan moves on. We are doing our job. Russia's support in this matter is simply decisive. Without her, nothing would have happened. Therefore, it is better to do more and talk less about it, especially on camera. Everything will happen as usual.

Tell me, please, what kind of participation do the residents of Sevastopol, ordinary ordinary people, take in this?

It is difficult to overestimate him. Just imagine: sending just one person to a training camp costs 1,600 rubles. This is how much a bus ticket costs. And now we have two battalions sent there. Sevastopol residents support us with things, food, medicine, vehicles, fuel and, of course, money. And you need to top up your phone account and buy some accessories... This can only be done with cash. It's difficult. Not everyone believes that the money will go where it is needed. But the people of Sevastopol and people from mainland Russia, who trust me personally and my comrades, transfer money and help. Low bow to them. Without them, nothing would have happened, and so many Sevastopol residents would not have fought for a just cause.

Where should those who want to provide humanitarian assistance through your Department go?

It is best to get information from the Sevastopol forum:
Theme: "Help to New Russia (Zheleznyakov)."

A participant in the “Sevastopol Ritual”, who raised a lot of funds to help the fighting Novorossiya, Vitaly Kalfa, joins our conversation.

He believes that outreach efforts to provide humanitarian assistance should be more active. “How many people go online, and specifically to the Forum?” he asks. “A minority. And many want to help, but don’t know how.”

People need to be woken up, as was the case in March, on the eve of the referendum. After all, any family can provide all possible help. But for this, in my opinion, there must be a call from influential political forces. For example, such as the political council of the United Russia party, the Sevastopol branch of the ONF. How do you think?

Interested in social activist.

The Russian spring began in winter, even during the Anti-Maidan. And then the whole of Sevastopol - thanks to our Sevastopol Forum - began to organize various organizations: "Rubezh", Smooborona, DND and many others. - Vladimir Drevetnyak explains. - That is, this was not decided overnight, but Novorossiya happened quickly, and the Cossacks sometimes have to act spontaneously. Of our five battalions, including training ones, two are fighting in Novorossiya. This is quite a lot for our army. I believe that it is not we who should deal with appeals. The organization of assistance, including information, should probably be provided by those in whose competence this is. I'm used to being responsible only for my area of ​​work. You yourself can contact the United Russia political council. And the Cossacks did their job, and will do it. And in general, the whole of Russia is participating in helping Novorossiya, which gives great effect and significance.

At the end of our conversation, I asked Vladimir Grigorievich a rather frivolous question: “Do militias often use strong words?” :No more than ordinary life. - He answered. - And you know what’s interesting? The guys from the Caucasus fighting for Novorossiya, of whom there are quite a lot there, do not swear at all. And they don't drink alcohol. In any case, I didn’t come across any drinkers.”

You could see how the Koshevoy’s eyes lit up the moment he started talking about specific people!

Caucasians are generally very interesting guys, desperate. I really liked the Chechens. Hot, brave. The people there generally be healthy. There are more than two hundred Sevastopol residents in our regiment. Of course, there are many Cossacks: Kuban, Rostov, Don. There are many volunteers from Samara, Chita, Yekaterinburg, and Transbaikalia... Our people are very motivated spiritually. We will not let the residents of Novorossiya either starve or freeze. We will all fight until victory, which I am convinced! - will be behind us.

After the meeting, we called Vladimir Grigorievich, and he said that he was very pleased with the results.

At the beginning of next week, our Cossacks are leaving for the front line again:

This is what is written under this photo on the Sevforum: “Before you are the commanders of guns, combat vehicles, artillery installations, rocket systems... I will keep a photo report on our movement to Novorossiya. Today in Sevastopol. No other outcome except the Victory of Russia, somehow I don’t remember. We will defeat Zheleznyakov too.”

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On Sunday night, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) released the protocol of the agreement to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. The 12-point document was signed by the participants of the trilateral contact group meeting in Minsk: the former President of Ukraine and the special envoy of the current President Poroshenko Leonid Kuchma, the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, the Russian Ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Zurabov, as well as the official representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on issues of resolving the situation in Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini.

Here is the full text of the Minsk Protocol:

1. Ensure an immediate bilateral cessation of the use of weapons.

2. Ensure monitoring and verification by the OSCE of the non-use of weapons regime.

3. Carry out decentralization of power, including through the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions" (Law on Special Status).

4. Ensure ongoing monitoring on the Ukrainian-Russian state border and verification by the OSCE with the creation of a security zone in the border areas of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

5. Immediately release all hostages and illegally detained persons.

6. Adopt a law to prevent the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.

7. Continue inclusive national dialogue.

8. Take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Donbass.

9. Ensure the holding of early local elections in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local self-government in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions” (Law on Special Status).

10. Remove illegal armed groups, military equipment, as well as militants and mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine.

11. Adopt a program for the economic revival of Donbass and restoration of the region’s vital activity.

12. Provide guarantees of personal safety for consultation participants.

REACTION

Igor Plotnitsky: “We need the Russian language and contacts with Russia”

The head of the Lugansk People's Republic in an interview with “” told what conditions the militias have and what things raise questions.

THERE ARE QUESTIONS ON SOME POINTS

The people's republics supported the protocol jointly developed by the contact group for the speedy implementation of points on the cessation of the use of weapons, on monitoring, on the release of hostages, on improving the humanitarian situation in the Donbass and Luhansk region, on the program for restoring the life of our regions. These points, in our opinion, are aimed at implementing the plan to resolve the conflict, announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 3. Regarding other points of the protocol, we have more questions than answers. But we agreed to include them in the protocol so as not to slow down the start of the peace process.

THE PEOPLE WILL DECIDE WHOM TO GOVERN THE DONBASS AND LUGANSH REGION

We are satisfied that the adoption of a law on the special status of Donbass and Luhansk region is envisaged, and that the implementation of free elections in our republics. The people themselves will decide who should govern the Donetsk and Lugansk lands. It will decide regardless of military and information pressure from Kyiv. This law should not only give freedom to popular self-government, but also secure the right of residents of our republics to independently form popular groups of armed citizens to protect public order. This law should provide for the possibility of building relations with Ukraine on a contractual basis. It should record the status of the Russian language and Ukraine’s obligations not to interfere with free economic ties our republics with Russia ().

AND AT THIS TIME

Kyiv is bringing fresh forces to Donbass

The leaders of the DPR and LPR asked the OSCE to monitor the implementation of the Minsk agreements by the Ukrainian side

“We expect that the OSCE will provide impartial international control over compliance with the ceasefire, as well as objective monitoring of the situation in Ukraine,” says the joint address of Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky. “We consider it extremely important to stop the bloodshed and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the south-eastern regions.”

Meanwhile, the militias have already noted several cases of violation of the truce by the Ukrainian side. Almost immediately after the ceasefire was announced, punitive forces fired at militia positions in Gorlovka and Amvrosievka. They hit Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk and the outskirts of Mariupol.

In addition, Novorossiya points out that Kyiv is using the truce to properly prepare for the next attack on Donbass. "Let down manpower from the side of Slavyansk,” said one of the militia commanders, Igor Bezler. - More than 500 units of equipment: Kamaz trucks, tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles. Buses transport militants from volunteer battalions, the National Guard and the Right Sector. From the village of Markov Yar, 7 artillery shots were fired at the positions of the militia.” And in Kyiv, it seems, they are in no hurry with refutations. On the contrary, they openly talk about their intentions: “This truce is necessary in order to carry out intelligence operation and find out the location of the enemy forces, as well as regroup the troops,” Andrei Lysenko, speaker of the information center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said on one of the Kyiv channels. “Mariupol is and will be Ukrainian,” echoes the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. - It is currently strengthening. Additional troops have been sent there. Including the 1st Operational Brigade of the National Guard."

QUESTION OF THE DAY

What points do you think are missing in the Minsk Agreement?

Franz KLINTSEVICH, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense:

Everything there is thought out quite well, but it is unlikely to be feasible. The most the main problem- this is a conversation about the broad autonomy of Novorossiya within Ukraine. But I don’t think that after so much blood it will end peacefully...

Egor KHOLMOGOROV, publicist, Chief Editor portal "Russian Observer":

The agreement is categorically missing a clause on the creation of an independent tribunal to investigate military and humanitarian crimes. These include crimes in Odessa, crimes in Mariupol, and shelling of residential areas throughout the summer.

Mikhail DELYAGIN, director of the Institute of Globalization Problems:

There is a lack of recognition of reality: Novorossiya itself does not consider these territories to be part of Ukraine, and Nazi Kyiv does not control them.

Alexey MUKHIN, director of the Center for Political Information:

Unfortunately, the US guarantee clause is missing. Otherwise, this whole plan is unlikely to be implemented: it should be taken into account that the Kyiv authorities are strongly affiliated with the notorious “Washington regional committee”. And the United States has its own plan for what will happen in Ukraine in the near future.

Igor NIKOLAEV, director of the FBK Institute for Strategic Analysis:

From an economic point of view, there is no need to add anything to this list. The main thing and priority is for there to be a real ceasefire.

Silanty, reader of the KP.RU website:

The point under which Novorossiya will have the right to introduce its own currency. Why use the hryvnia, which looks like it will soon be equal to the Zimbabwean dollar?

Maria NIKITINA, listener of Radio “KP” (97.2 FM):

It’s not that I don’t have enough, I can’t understand: what can you even negotiate with people whose policy is to lie incessantly? After all, after Kyiv pulls up people and brings in new guns, the rivers of blood will be even more abundant...

Participants in the contact group meeting in Minsk, in addition to a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners, also agreed to give special status to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and to hold early elections ()