The main combat units of the New Russia militia. Novorossia will be given a special status. There are questions on some points
On September 1, a significant event occurred that had been awaited for several months. Negotiations on a ceasefire and peace in the South-East of Ukraine began in Minsk, in which the DPR and LPR acted as an independent entity. Their representatives were included in the Contact Group for the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, which also includes representatives of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the OSCE. Personally, these are the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, the official representative of the OSCE Chairmanship on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini, the rebel republics were represented by Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR Andrei Purgin. He submitted a 15-point ceasefire proposal for consideration. However, comments on these proposals have been controversial.
First, information appeared that representatives of Novorossiya demanded the adoption of a special status for Donbass. The media disseminated a commentary by Andrei Purgin, in which he said that “we are talking about the common security space of Ukraine, the DPR and LPR, about the post-war restoration of economic, cultural and social ties with Ukraine and that the DPR and LPR will not lay claim to other territories Ukraine".
These proposals are specified on the Russian Spring portal:
“The LPR and DPR demand recognition of the special status of their territories, the cessation of the military operation of the Ukrainian security forces in order to hold free elections and recognition of the status of the Russian language.
They also insist on special status for their armed forces and the right to appoint prosecutors and judges. At the same time, in their opinion, it is necessary to carry out an unconditional amnesty for militia members and all political prisoners.
The LPR and DPR also require a special procedure for conducting foreign economic activity, taking into account deepening integration with Russia and the Customs Union.
If these requirements are met, the LPR and DPR guarantee that “they will make every effort to maintain peace, preserve the single economic, cultural and political space of Ukraine and the entire space of Russian-Ukrainian civilization.”
“For the cessation of the punitive operation, the withdrawal of troops and the formal recognition of the DPR and LPR as part of Ukraine, the republics of Novorossiya will receive de facto independence:
Independent power structures, whatever they are called;
An independent economy, including freedom of foreign economic relations, which means joining the Customs Union and actual merging with the Russian economic space;
Legalization of foreign economic activity, including in relations with Western structures, i.e. the ability to avoid a blockade and boycott of export-import operations;
An independent judiciary;
With actual independence from Kyiv, the opportunity to seriously influence Ukrainian domestic politics through representation in the Verkhovna Rada and participation in presidential elections;
In addition, conditions will probably be set for the remaining territories of Ukraine, such as the state status of the Russian language in Ukraine, the expansion of powers of the regions, etc.”
In fact, this is an ultimatum to Ukraine, which is unlikely to be accepted by the Ukrainian authorities.
However, later DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko refuted the proposals made by Purgin and generally doubted that he could have expressed them.
The information that the DPR and LPR have announced their agreement to remain part of Ukraine is not true, Zakharchenko said on the Russian News Service. “It is unknown where this information came from. Most likely, Kyiv would like it to be like this,” the Donetsk prime minister considered, adding that the republics do not consider it realistic to remain part of Ukraine. He said that DPR representatives were sent to Minsk to consult on the prisoner exchange, “they did not have the authority to make such statements, and they did not make them.”
Then, Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR Andrei Purgin denied the message that appeared in the media about the alleged readiness to preserve a single political space of Ukraine.
“The next meeting will be on the 5th, while we exchanged documents with the Ukrainian side. They conveyed their vision of the situation, and we conveyed ours,” Purgin said. According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR, at the next meeting of the contact group the first steps towards a ceasefire and the issue of exchanging hostages “all for all” will be discussed.
The fact that the next round of negotiations has been postponed until the end of the week plays into the hands of the Novorossiya army. During this time, it can cook the punitive forces in cauldrons, clear airports, liberate the villages of Shchastya and Maryinka, pushing the enemy to a missile-safe distance from Donetsk and Lugansk. Then block the grouping near Debaltsevo in the new cauldron on the northwestern front and thereby open the way to Lisichansk and Severodonetsk along one road line and to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk along the other. At the same time, in the south, Mariupol will be placed under a final blockade. Thus, the rebels will be closer to the complete liberation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (at the moment they control about half of their territory).
From these positions, the two unrecognized republics will most likely negotiate with the Ukrainian authorities on September 5. If President Petro Poroshenko remains stubborn here, the advance of the militia army will continue, and then the talk at the 3rd round of negotiations will be about stopping the offensive of the Novorossiya army on neighboring regions in exchange for recognition of a “special status” or the creation of a demarcation line.
There is no doubt that the proposal for a “special status” was made. It’s just that Purgin hastened to make it public - it apparently was an unspoken message. Officially, the negotiator had to talk about the exchange of prisoners of war. Therefore, Zakharchenko had to refute his words, just as Purgin later did - himself.
Despite the fact that the DPR and LPR propose to remain part of Ukraine, this status is strategically beneficial to both the unrecognized republics and Russia.
In fact, we are talking about a status similar to Transnistria: de facto - an independent state, a protectorate of Russia, but de jure - a republic within Moldova. This confusing situation allows Transnistria to conduct its own policy and trade, independent from Moldova, but coordinated with Russia. But because of this burden, Moldova cannot join the EU, unite with Romania, and especially not join NATO. If the DPR and LPR remain part of Ukraine on the same principles, for the latter this option will be even worse than Transnistria for Moldova. Novorossiya, as a de facto independent state with a strong and strengthened army, being de jure part of Ukraine, can and will have a direct political and military impact on Kyiv and Ukrainian territories. This will lead to a further growth of separatism and the partisan movement in the southern and eastern regions, which were not included in Novorossiya, but were historically part of it. With the escalation of partisanship and the organization of uprisings in these areas, the army of Novorossiya can defend the insurgent people. And this will continue until Ukraine abandons the southern and eastern regions in favor of a new state and recognizes it. Either this wave will reach Kyiv, where the junta will fall and a new government, pro-Russian, will be established.
This scenario is, of course, more desirable for Russia. She might have been satisfied with the Ukrainian breakaway of the DPR and LPR back in May-June, but now she will want to return all of Ukraine to the Russian world.
Naturally, the Ukrainian authorities also see the hidden insidiousness in the “special status”, which is why they will not accept it under any circumstances. It is better for them to immediately abandon the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, rather than to be neighbors with them, having at their side an irreconcilable enemy who harbors a grudge. Therefore, the war will continue until the military forces of Ukraine are technically weakened and morally decayed. Then, again, it will be easier to take all of Ukraine at once rather than in parts. So the situation is still in favor of Novorossiya. The army, hardened in battle and having felt the taste of victory, will not stop. Now stopping the army of Novorossiya is the same as stopping the Red Army’s offensive against Nazi Germany. The enemy must be broken and destroyed. Only such a war could drag on for another year or much longer - how much strength and patience does the United States have to support the puppet government of Ukraine, and Square - financial and human resources.
© Photo from the LPR website
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, on New Year’s Eve. 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 freed 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, once again getting ready for the next trip and going to our everyday and bloody work, that there was no one but us to defend Novorossiya, that our cause was just, that all these misunderstandings were a manifestation of civil war and social revolution and that they would definitely be overcome, all those guilty would 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 can be seen from the results of his political activities, he did this 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 - ended up on the territory of the 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 public movement is immediately created, signatures are collected, its activists are recruited from the SBI fighters, lists of candidates for deputies of the People's Council are compiled, posters and campaigning for Bednov begin to be hung, and work is 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 just before the entrance to the GBR camp, at the Machine Institute, from morning to evening, relatives of those detained by the Commandant’s Platoon, another monstrous creation of the dark side of Bednov, were crowded (We’ll talk about him later. Let’s leave, so to speak, the sweetest part 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 registration documents 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 the emerging features of a 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 in arms to defend his native city, 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 Lugansk 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 in the barracks between combat missions, we had no time to collect rumors and information. 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.”
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 Kiev 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 of local self-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 the holding of free elections in our republics is guaranteed. 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 the free economic ties of 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 achieve an end to the bloodshed and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the southeastern 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. “Manpower has been brought in from 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 needed in order to conduct a reconnaissance operation and find out the location of the enemy’s forces, as well as regroup troops,” said Andrei Lysenko, speaker of the information center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, 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 important problem is the conversation about broad autonomy for Novorossiya within Ukraine. But I don’t think that after so much blood it will end peacefully...
Egor KHOLMOGOROV, publicist, editor-in-chief of the Russian Observer portal:
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 ()
LOSS REPORTS ARE REGULARLY UPDATED AND ADDED!
Somehow I decided to put together operational (chronologically arranged) reports about the “heroic” defeats of the Banderlogs from the Armed Forces of the resurgent Novorossiya in Slavyansk ...
PART EIGHT - http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/6772.html
PART SEVEN - http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/6772.html
PART SIX - http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/4603.html
PART FIFTH - http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/3548.html
Operational Primary Sources:
http://etoonda.livejournal.com/
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/
http://summer56.livejournal.com/
http://militarizm.livejournal.com/
http://friend.livejournal.com/1018909.html
http://www.voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok
http://rusvesna.su
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01 - Refined
(confirmed)
LOSSES OF ARMORED VEHICLES of Banderlogs on the South-Eastern Front of New Russia for the period from May 2 to May 22, 2014
- are given here
:
http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/6463.html.
02 - Refined
(confirmed)
LOSSES of Aviation Equipment (helicopters, airplanes - aircraft) banderlogs on the South-Eastern Front of New Russia for the period from May 2 to May 22, 2014
- are given here
:
http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/2386.html .
03 - Refined
(confirmed)
total losses of banderlogs in Personnel for the period from May 2 to May 16, 2014
- are given here
:
http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/4033.html.
According to the above author's research:
1. Updated (detail) Banderlog losses -cumulative total according to condition on 05/24/2014 . are given here :
http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/5852.htmlKilled and wounded:
min. 761 people
2. Weekly operational summary of banderlog losses
:
Losses for the period May 19-25, 2014
For May 24 - (-) 0
Banderlog
(LPR militias took possession of BRDM-RKh, two KAMAZ vehicles, GAZ-66 and UAZ-469 vehicles, I.I. Strelkov’s militias - Destroyed (burned out) 1 armored personnel carrier, knocked out another)
For May 23 - (-) 17
Banderlog
(2 infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, a T-64 tank was knocked out, 11 enemy fighters were destroyed - NC, many were wounded, killed 6 and wounded 9 PS Kolomoisky)
For May 22 - (-)
61 banderlog
= 53 (Olginka) + 5
PSov (
Ugledar )
+ 3
(Lisichansk, military 1/2)(18 soldiers of the Perekop-Kharkov Prague-Volyn 51st mechanized brigade were killed and 35 were wounded, captured by the LPR 3 BMP-2; 2 burnt BMP 51st MB), 4 (6) burnt armored personnel carriers in Lisichansk (LPR))
For May 21 - (-) 15
Banderlog
( Krasny Liman - 12 wounded, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 2 mortars damaged, 3 Ukrainian military personnel - Lisichansk )
For May 20 -(-) 50 banderlogs
PS-National Guard
For May 19 - (-)
10 banderlogs
- 4 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine + 6 PS-National Guard (Kharkov)
Source (Situation in Ukraine on the eve of the elections. ITAR-TASS infographics):
http://itar-tass.com/infographics/7747
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3. Losses* (actually destroyed or disabled/damaged)
in Military technology -cumulative total
(as of May 24, 2014)
:
http://strannik-rf.livejournal.com/6463.html
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4. Losses
(actually captured by the militias of the DPR and LPR as war trophies)
banderlogs of serviceable Military Equipment -
cumulative total
(as of May 22, 2014) -
for May 24, 2014
05/24/2014
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Added: Today at 19:37
At night, our detachment attacked a checkpoint near the village. Seleznevka (about two kilometers east of Slavyansk - north of Semenovka. 1 armored personnel carrier was destroyed (burned out), another 1 armored personnel carrier was knocked out . Our losses are 1 volunteer.
Today at 17.30 we carried out (as promised - the artillery positions were located outside the city) combined strikes on two enemy groups in the village of Kombikormovy and at the BZS checkpoint. The main efforts were concentrated on the latter - 90 minutes of 82-mm and 25 Nona shells. There was a little hell there - a gas station exploded almost immediately... There were several detonations of ammunition (they had a lot of things there and one of the headquarters of the National Guard was located there). It seems that the Ukrainians have losses and, I hope, considerable ones. Moreover, we had never fired artillery at them during the day at this point and they felt very at ease there.
The artillery of the invincible Ukrainian army at Karachun (and not only there) missed the advance of the column and the shelling itself and was unable to fire a single shot until our batteries were removed from their positions. However, judging by where they belatedly started shooting, they didn’t find our firing position at all.
Over the course of 24 hours, another 80 volunteers came to us, including about 10 from Russia.
Extra video! Shelling of Slavyansk by Ukrainian security forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCv55y0bzOU
Original taken from avva in Sergeev's memories of the LPR
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, on New Year’s Eve. 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”). I found it via a link from Misha Verbitsky.
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, both for the actors in Novorossiya and the idle Internet onlookers and spectators split into two opposite camps - the first due to their ambitions and the degree of closeness to him during life, the second in accordance with the laws of crowd behavior, always greedy for the low and primitive pleasures of any public bloody spectacle - from bullfights to gladiator fights and boxing matches inclusive. Some always root for the reds, and others 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 without being part of his inner circle, I am freed from the temptation of both unbridled praise and selfish, momentary and conjunctural 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, has the ability to speak and has the opportunity to quite clearly convey my observations to his address.
So let's start with its genesis.
Bednov, since the spring, 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 the basement in anticipation of 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 this is where Batman appears , which 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. Dill, 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, weighed down 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 of those who were extorted for their release, and Bednov also organized his own hospital, a matter that at first glance is very necessary and noble, if you do not take into account that circumstance , 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 that was coming from Russia for direct sale. But Tigra, naturally, the head of the hospital, “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 in relation to 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 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 by this hedonistic and decayed community of cowards and poseurs, who at all costs avoid the front and its refreshing “charms” - step on one foot, pull the other, and say that it was so.
And this desire grew more and more. I, as a Russian, understood that sooner or later, but that strength. on which Novorossiya relied and relies, Great bourgeois Russia, will not allow such clever fiddling with the right of property 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 without a doubt, is a real hero of the defense of Lugansk and he will forever remain one of the founding fathers of Novorossiya, and in the future, a free and fraternal 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 “mazut”, that is, its own vehicles and armored unit, 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 and 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, this is 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 squeeze-outs 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 your sleeve is a big and obliging one. honor. We believed, once again getting ready for the next trip and going to our everyday and bloody work, that there was no one but us to defend Novorossiya, that our cause was just, that all these misunderstandings were a manifestation of civil war and social revolution and that they would definitely be overcome, all the guilty punished, and our sacrifices will not be in vain. In addition, the glory of the GBR was already ahead of itself. Many fighters are not only from Lugansk. but also from the DPR they 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 can be seen from the results of his political activities, he did this 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, revealed 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 August day of 2014, when almost the entire leadership of the Lugansk People's Republic and the paramilitary forces close to them panicked, in a huge column in luxurious executive cars filled with cash and jewelry, abandoning the population to the mercy of fate and remaining faithful to the idea of fighting until end, the militias, ended up on the territory of the 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 public movement is immediately created, signatures are collected, its activists are recruited from the SBI fighters, lists of candidates for deputies of the People's Council are compiled, posters and campaigning for Bednov begin to be hung, and work is carried out with the population. San Sanych appears more and more often in the body and Internet space. 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 just before the entrance to the GBR camp, at the Machine Institute, from morning to evening, relatives of those detained by the Commandant’s Platoon, another monstrous creation of the dark side of Bednov, were crowded (We’ll talk about him later. Let’s leave, so to speak, the sweetest part 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, Lugansk residents, 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 submitting them , fire was opened 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, a brute and regular armed force was needed, not close enough to Batman to seriously share with her, but, at the same time, so covered in all sorts of excesses and squeezes that, on occasion, it would hold keep your mouth shut and do all the necessary dirty work without complaint. 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 foundations 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 very strongly about this as his own personal tragedy. Many began to notice his increasing inadequacy and the emerging features of a 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 in arms to defend his native city, was extrajudicially put to death, despite the fact that his there was no human blood in their hands, 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 having shown obedience and humility, the reformed offender happily skipped out of the walls of the GBR, which had become almost familiar to him.
The fate of those who, 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 playing 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 Lugansk 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 in the barracks between combat missions, we had no time to collect rumors and information. 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 and define, and it bothered me, as sometimes this or that word bothers me, which you just can’t remember and that makes you 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."
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