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Military personnel of the 247th Airborne Assault Regiment, from senior officers to the rank and file of the Russian Armed Forces, are involved in terrorist activities and the implementation of criminal orders of the highest military leadership of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.

This conclusion can be reached after analyzing investigative materials based on open source intelligence (OSINT), as well as based on recordings of telephone conversations and materials exclusively provided to InformNapalm by SBU employees. This publication is the result of comprehensive work by volunteer intelligence officers, cyber activists and security officials.

InformNapalm has repeatedly provided facts about the participation of military personnel of the 247th Airborne Assault Regiment in the undeclared war against Ukraine. Paratroopers of the 247th Airborne Regiment recently distinguished themselves during exercises of Russian troops in the occupied Crimea. Also, military personnel have repeatedly been the focus of InformNapalm investigations and have been recorded in the Ukrainian Donbass. Regimental officers also became targets of investigations. For example, the former battalion commander, Colonel Roman Yuvakaev, who was caught taking a bribe and was fired, and then rehabilitated and reinstated for the war in Donbass.

In the materials transmitted to the SBU, we received further data on the involvement of Russian career military personnel as leaders, consultants, and advisers to the “LPR/DPR” terrorist groups.

Information about the object of study:

Since October 2014, in the activities of the terrorist organization "LPR" as a Russian adviser in the position of deputy commander of the 6th named after Platov of the 2nd AK “LPR”, citizen of the Russian Federation Stanislav Eduardovich Ershov, born 10/07/1970, is participating. Native andresident of the Russian Federation, career officer of the Russian Armed Forces, personal number U564661, participant in the Chechen campaigns, lieutenant colonel.

Last position and place of service of Stanislav Ershovin the RF Armed Forces before being sent to the occupied territory of Ukraine - commander of the 2nd battalion of the 247th Guards Air Assault Caucasian Cossack Regiment (military unit 54801, Stavropol), which is part of the 7th Guards Air Assault Mountain Division (g ..Novorossiysk). While in this position, in 2013 Ershovtook part in the filming of the video story “Victory Banner”, dedicated to the assignment of the honorary name “Guards” to the 247th Airborne Assault Caucasian Cossack Regiment.(Video “247 Airborne Regiment its Victory Banner )

Before this, Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Stanislav Ershov“lit up” in the publication for Airborne Forces Day “These guys will NOT let you down,” which was published on August 2, 2006 in the issue of the newspaper “Stavropolskaya Pravda” and its Internet version.

It is interesting that he gave his first interview as a soldier of the 21st separate airborne brigade with the rank of captainto the NTV channel about the events of 1995 in Grozny, in which he was directly involved.(Video: “Russian army officer about the storming of Grozny-1995” )

With the beginning of the active phase of the anti-terrorist operation in the East of Ukraine, paratrooper officer of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Ershovtook part in the activities of a terrorist organization"LPR".

Apparently, the Russian Federation has also developed a mechanism for signing contracts for business trips to Ukraine with reservists who have experience in command in high command positions.

It has been established that Ershov’s appointment to a command position in“LPR” was carried out through the 3rd Directorate of Reserve Formations of Motorized Rifle Troops of the 12th Reserve Command of the Southern Military District of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. He was assigned to the position of senior officer.This is confirmed by his telephone conversation with a former colleague named Roman, who also received an order for a “business trip” to the occupied part of the Donetsk region.

[InformNapalm note: inall audio files to whichPartial transcripts have been made in this publication, for review and detailed study, compiled into one file and posted on video hosting, the video recording will be supplemented with subtitles of the full transcript later. Stay tuned].

“Klen” is Ershov’s call sign in the Donbass, a transcript of part of the conversations from his phone number +380669025254, where Ershov answers his interlocutor named Roman, “Ramses”, +79203832171

"Maple": Did they tell you the location of the deployment?

"Roma": No, they didn’t say. I’ll read it to you now: “Senior officer of the 7th directorate for the formation of motorized rifle troops of the 12th command of the reserves of the southern military district.”

"Maple": 7th formation? This is not for us. We are the third department, in my opinion. 7th formation of motorized rifle troops? No, we are not the 7th, we are the third. You're probably in the DPR. In short, Roma, people are stretching us here. Snezhnovsky(?) left. I’m thinking here myself, I stayed, as if they wouldn’t send me somewhere. In short, take camouflages and a couple of flash drives. Rewrite all the programs there, the shooting course - ah, it’s already there. KTZ with a company, with a platoon. All samples of statements, combat training log of a platoon, company, battalion, regiment. Also, the documents you use, all the teaching materials, are required for the BND. In reality, we teach here, we train, but they don’t want to learn. It’s good if you come to us, but I just know that we have all the battalion commanders in place. Now things have more or less returned to normal, as if there was no war after Debal, people have stagnated, banditry is starting again. It seems like it should whistle right now. Ours should not (?) attack here, that is, Ukraine should fight back. The specificity is that the people here are peculiar: there are many prisoners, many escaped prisoners from Russia. You will have such a rich experience of working with such an element that you will be amazed. Loboutians, well, in short, there are many who can’t stand it. Right there Ruzik - the goat, next to us, from the 2nd brigade, destroyed everything, now they drag us to him to help him conduct classes. Now he will become the chief of staff of our corps, I don’t know how we will be.

Then Klenov noted that in the winter the adviser was shot in the leg, it was such that they were killed, someone shot himself, that is, there is a certain moral burden.

"Roma" clarifies what things to take with you?

"Maple": Don’t take anything new. Everything is better than the old style. You will be given a winter jacket and a pea coat where you will serve. Take the unloading if there is a normal one, so as not to buy here. It’s just that the bandits found everything for me here - unloadings, and weapons, all given to me as a gift, they were wrung out. And I have a UAZ, a wrung-out Hunter. Roma, it's okay. It would be good if you came to us. And, when is the deadline, when to decrease?

"Roma": I don't know. My documents were sent to Moscow. The order will come now.

"Maple": And for the position of battalion commander?

"Roma": The regiment commander said - battalion commander, some senior officer. What kind of position is this?

"Maple": I am also the head of a department, some department. In Russia it is called that, but here you are deputy regiment commander or service chief. But most likely this is not for us.

"Roma": Are there large distances between each other?

"Maple": I can't do it on the phone. Well, two buildings - one in the DPR, the other in the LPR.

Ershov noted that there is very high demand here, “our airborne forces are garbage.” A lot from the Airborne Forces. The replacement will be in October.

Before heading to the east of Ukraine, Ershov was created a cover legend, according to which he was given the surname Klenov and he was allegedly a native of the city of Alchevsk, Lugansk region, where in the past he was allegedly engaged in business activities - selling household chemicals.By cover name Ershovchose the call sign “Klen”.

The practice of creating a cover legend is used for all officers and generals of the Russian Armed Forces participating in hostilities on the territories of other states in order to conceal their presence thereRussian military and their removal from criminal liability in the future.If necessary, the cover legend is changed. So, in May 2016, “Klen,” probably yearning for the romance of serving in the air force, received new documents under the surname Vorontsev, while keeping his previous call sign.

Ershov's participation in the activities of the terrorist organization “LPR” was confirmed by a conversation intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine with an employee of the financial department of his previous duty station in the Russian Federation, in which “Klen” clarified the issue of paying him a “physical allowance”:

(“Maple” called a woman named Natalya Petrovna from his number +380669025254, +79153081843)

"Maple": It's your former client who's bothering you. You once helped me a lot, I served in Kostroma. This was 2 years ago. I had problems there. My name is Stanislav Eduardovich. Ershov.

"Natalya Petrovna": I remember, I remember. Yes, yes, yes.

"Maple": Klenov is my last name now. Natalya Petrovna, You'll know where I am by the number. I've been here for a long time. You can tell by the number. I'm in the southeast. I've been here for a long time now. If you remember, my personal number did not open then.

[editor's note of InformNapalm: after receiving data on a serviceman thanks to the Ukrainian cyber activists of the group Trinity We also managed to obtain statements about payments that were previously made to Ershov through the RF Ministry of Defense, here is one of statements for 2012. This proves that by the beginning of hostilities in the Donbass he was already a lieutenant colonel in the reserves and was reinstated in service through the command of the reserve formations of the command of the Southern Military District, as stated in the certificate above]

“Klen” wants to know if they are paying him a physical supplement.

"Maple": If possible, help me. It’s just that, in general, I’m here under other names, without documents. Well, I'm on a special mission.

“Klen” dictates its personal number: U564661, 10/07/70, Ershov...

While serving as deputy commander 6th separate motorized rifle Cossack regiment named after Platov 2nd AC "LPR", the Russian adviser “Klen” (Ershov) coordinates the combat actions of a subordinate unit against the Ukrainian Armed Forces stationed in the Popasnyansky district of the Luhansk region, he is the direct organizer of combat training of militants.Participates in the development and implementation of combat and mobilization readiness plans, conducts classes, as well as training units of the specified terrorist formation.
Through the efforts of subordinate militants, whom Klen, by the way, considers “bandits” and “cattle”, he is provided with everything necessary for a comfortable life and “service” in the part of the territory of the Lugansk region occupied by the Russian aggressor: housing in the city of Stakhanov, a UAZ Hunter SUV », basic necessities, etc.Everything, of course, was selected and “squeezed” from the local population.He was even “given” an apartment in Lisichansk, controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
Russian army officer Ershovdoes not hesitate to take personal part in looting actions, in particular, the looting of stores and shopping centers.He gives the “trophies” obtained in this way to his mistresses, whom he acquired at the place of his “business trip”, and sometimes sends them to his wife in Stavropol.Also, through his own efforts in less than two years of his stay in the “LPR” Ershov“accumulated” a significant amount of money that he plans to spend on purchasing real estate in the Russian Federation.

“Service” in the “LPR” Lieutenant Colonel Ershovcombines it with a peculiar hobby - collecting insignia (chevrons) of units of the ATO forces, which militants remove from the military uniforms of killed or captured military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other military formations of Ukraine.“Klen” sends individual pieces of its collection as gifts to its friends in the Russian Federation from among its former colleagues.

Ershov’s contract to participate in the terrorist activities of the “LPR” expires on October 1, 2016.After this Ershovplans to return to the Russian Federation.It is significant that one of the reasons for his reluctance to extend his stay in Donbass is his open hostility towards the inhabitants of this region, whom Ershov calls “savages”, “herd”, “creatures” and even wants them to return to the control of the Ukrainian authorities and be punished by it. At the same time, he admits that he personally shed blood and killed local residents.

(Audio file “(05/25/2015) + (07/04/2016)” transferred to InformNapalm, the recording is included in the video, Ershov ("Klen") on +380669025254 received a call from a former colleague in the Russian Federation +79881179226). Part of the recording transcript:

“...there’s a herd right there. Here they should basically run around with bows and arrows - no options. Here they gave a tank battalion. I say: “Bastards, you just need to even ride horses. The checker is the limit of your development.” Here are simply the most "fucking" people I've ever met. Understand? Seriously, I’m telling you - this is crap, they just don’t care at all, and the war. At all my opinion: we should leave here, and the “Nazis” must bend them here so that they understand. It's just bastards here. 20% are those who are there for their homeland, that’s all. All the rest are just creatures, alcoholics, indifferent... they even have a stake on their head. I say: I’ve already shed blood here for locals - you can’t imagine. I didn’t get wet like that in Russia. Here I am already in authority - that’s why I can afford to kill here...”

(Excerpt from another call to a colleague):

“...I saw this Lugansk people in a coffin - a bunch of fuckers, such a mentality... You and I are happy people that we live in the Caucasus and don’t have to leave anywhere from there. I’m telling you, it’s better to move somewhere to Kizlyar... Okay, brother, come on, hugs, hello to Natula. Everything is fine. Yesterday they knocked out a Chevron for me there, “Ukrovsky”, I’ll bring it back later, yeah.”

Additional data on Ershov

In addition to the certificate provided by the SBU to Lieutenant Colonel Ershov, InformNapalm also found his social profile page on the Odnoklassniki network. Thanks to this All data on family members of a Russian war criminal has been established. Additionally, it was established that Stanislav Ershov has two children in Kostroma, a son, Daniil, 8 years old, and a daughter, Katerina, 17 years old. Ershov’s wife’s name is Tatyana, and his mother-in-law’s name is Olga. Of course they couldn't keep their "breadwinner" from war crimes in Ukraine. The Russian war criminal left them for 2 years to go kill Ukrainians, loot and plunder the Donbass under the protection of the Kremlin to spread the “Russian world”.

Conclusion

So O Thus, contrary to the rhetoric of the Russian media regarding the genocide of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, the “Kyiv junta” has proven that Russian Lieutenant Colonel Ershov and his compatriots who take part in the activities of the “LPR/DPR” terrorist organizations come to the east of Ukraine not to protect its inhabitants, but solely for the purpose of making money and satisfying their own needs at the expense of the local population. Russian military personnel are engaged in killing people, looting and destroying the economic potential of Donbass and the infrastructure of the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

Origins of the military branch

Already in the 1930s, the first airborne assault brigades were formed in the USSR, for example, the 11th separate airborne assault brigade (11th air assault brigade Ulan-Ude). preparation of a theoretical basis for the successful conduct of operations of this kind began. The first “Experienced Airborne Detachment” was created in June 1931 on the territory of the Leningrad Military District on the basis of the 11th Infantry Division.

By the beginning of 1933, special-purpose airborne detachments, as well as separate rifle battalions (airborne assault battalions), were formed within the Moscow, Volga, Ukrainian, and Belarusian military districts. Perhaps one of the most famous airborne assault units from the heyday of the Airborne Forces can be called the 21st Airborne Assault Battalion, formed in Kutaisi in the first half of the 70s. But first things first.

It was these military formations that were the basis for the creation of the USSR Airborne Forces. The first full-fledged landing - 900 people in full combat ammunition - was dropped on the territory of the Belarusian Military District in 1934. The first full-fledged combat airborne operation of the USSR dates back to August 1939. This happened during the conflict at Khalkin Gol, where the 212th Airborne Brigade under the leadership of Major Ivan Zatevakhin, having completed a forced march of Japanese troops, showed its best qualities in the battles for the height of Fui; as a result of the operation, 352 soldiers and officers were awarded orders and medals . Ivan Glazunov - one of the first landing officers, subsequently rose to the rank of lieutenant general, and from 1944 to 1946 was the commander of the USSR Airborne Forces.

When creating the Airborne Forces, the goals and tasks set for the formations of this type of troops were determined: delivered to the enemy’s rear by means of aviation and parachute means, the landing force is engaged in reconnaissance and sabotage activities, preparing a bridgehead for the offensive of ground forces. In addition, mobile groups of paratroopers are indispensable in combat operations in hard-to-reach territories. This specificity determined the initially strict selection of personnel in the Airborne Forces; the need to conduct combat operations in an isolated state required excellent physical condition and ideological strength of the personnel.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army included five airborne corps, with a personnel strength of just under 10,000 people in each. During the Second World War, the high command began to realize the need to carry out sabotage operations, as a result of which, since 1942, new paratrooper units were formed on the basis of several guards rifle divisions. In addition, at the same time, sabotage detachments were formed under the NKVD of the USSR, and airborne units of the navy were created. In general, the results of World War II gave a new impetus to the development of the Airborne Forces in the Soviet Union.

Airborne Forces after World War II

In June 1946, the airborne divisions were withdrawn from the Air Force and came under the personal command of the Minister of the Armed Forces, thereby essentially becoming an independent branch of the military. The period after the end of World War II was marked by the beginning of the confrontation between the USSR and the West; in this situation, obvious gaps in the organization of the Airborne Forces and the unpreparedness of troops for a full-fledged confrontation with similar NATO units became visible. If the theoretical basis and training of fighters were at a decent level, then the catastrophic state of material capabilities became obvious by the end of the 40s.

The next decade was marked by a radical modernization of the airborne troops, starting with theoretical and tactical training of personnel, work on modern equipment, and ending with the development of symbols that distinguished the fighters of the USSR Airborne Forces. In 1956, for example, an eternal symbol of the Russian landing force was developed - a parachutist between two planes, which for more than half a century can be seen on the flag of the Airborne Forces. Clients of our military trade, by the way, can right now buy flags of the Airborne Forces of the USSR or Russia, close to every paratrooper.

Also in 1956, so-called nuclear landing exercises took place on the territory of the Semipalatinsk test site; during the exercises, paratroopers worked at the risk of their lives in conditions of increased background radiation. This period was marked by a significant increase in the combat effectiveness of the airborne troops, an increase in numbers and an increase in the level of logistics. The main ideologist and coordinator of that reform was the legendary Vasily Margelov, more about whom below.

By the mid-1960s, during a period of rapid development of military helicopter technology, the need arose to create airborne units that would use the ability of helicopters to land and take off anywhere. It was assumed that new units would be delivered behind enemy lines and landed directly from a helicopter, since the latter now provided the opportunity to transport large landing forces. The US troops became pioneers in the use of helicopter technology; the first air assault divisions appeared in the American army in 1965.

The military campaign in Vietnam clearly showed the full power of a helicopter landing force; the Soviet command decided on the need to create this type of troops. The first domestic air assault brigade was formed on an experimental basis on the basis of the 51st Parachute Regiment as part of the Dnepr-67 exercises. The brigade landed from a helicopter at the specified point and successfully completed the combat mission. Thus, in 1968, the formation of assault airborne brigades as part of the ground forces began. The operation scheme of the DShB consisted of landing formations in any area of ​​military operations and solving combat missions with fire support from helicopters. Initially, the range of operations of assault brigades did not exceed 70-100 kilometers.

Creation of 21 DSB ZakVO

The General Staff directive of November 5, 1972 ordered the formation of an air assault brigade on the territory of the Transcaucasian Military District by February 1973. In pursuance of this order, 21 airborne assault brigades were created in the city of Kutaisi on the territory of military unit 31571. In addition, the 21 separate brigade included: 3 separate air assault battalions numbered 802 (military unit 36685 in Tsulukidze), 803 (military unit 55055), 804 (military unit 57351); 1059 separate artillery division; two separate helicopter regiments (325 and 292); 303rd separate aviation support battalion; 1863 separate communications and radio engineering support division. Sometimes the brigade is called 21 OODShB.

True, until 1983, the personnel of the assault brigades stood out from the rest of the airborne forces - the service program here did not include parachute jumping, so the attack aircraft wore the uniform of motorized riflemen for the first ten years of their existence. We also note that the 21,11 and 13 ODShBr were created in the early seventies as a prototype. The personnel of the assault brigades then lived in conditions of continuous exercises, which were experimental in nature - at times this led to various kinds of emergency situations. As part of a major exercise in 1976, a tragedy occurred - as a result of a collision between two MI-8s, 36 soldiers of the 21st Kutaisi Airborne Brigade were killed.

The tragedy was the result of a mistake by one of the pilots - the second helicopter cut off the tail of the first with its propeller. However, despite such incidents, by the end of the decade it became clear that the command needed such highly mobile and combat-ready troops. Thus, by the decision of the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal N.V. Ogarkov in 1979, eight more air assault brigades were formed. All airborne infantry brigades of the USSR were directly subordinate to the Civil Code of the Soviet Forces, and only in 1990 were they officially transferred to the command of the Airborne Forces.

Parachute training in the 21st airborne battalion

In August 1983, the personnel of the 21st Airborne Battalion began performing parachute jumps for the first time; the landing was carried out from Mi-8 helicopters in groups of 16 people (in the standard case). Kutaisi attack aircraft specialized in conducting operations in difficult mountain conditions, desert, steppe, studied and practiced combat tactics in the dark (night shooting, forced marches, etc.). So, in 1983, the 21st Airborne Assault Brigade finally switched to the uniform, allowance and combat equipment of the airborne troops.

Standard armament 21 DShB

The technical equipment of the brigade was as follows: the transport helicopter regiment was armed with 20 Mi-24, 40 Mi-8 and 40 Mi-6; the anti-tank battery was armed with SPG-9 MD; the mortar battery had 8 82-mm BM-37s at its disposal; the anti-aircraft missile platoon had 9 Strela-2M MANPADS; several BMD-1, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers for each air assault battalion. The armament of the brigade artillery group consisted of GD-30 howitzers, PM-38 mortars, GP 2A2 cannons, Malyutka ATGM, SPG-9MD, and ZU-23 anti-aircraft gun.

Features of service in air assault units and formations

Unlike the airborne parachute units, assault brigades, as a rule, were used as additional force as part of a ground operation. More often than not, only part of a large brigade unit conducted combat operations in a specific territory. The 21st Airborne Brigade belonged to the category of demonstration military formations of the Soviet Army; a large percentage of the exercises were carried out under the supervision of foreign delegations - mainly representatives of the Warsaw Warsaw countries and allies in Asia.

It is interesting that in addition to long-distance foot marches in full ammunition, crossing mountain rivers, night battalion exercises, and landing, for example, in swamps, mountaineering training was mandatory for the 21st Airborne Brigade in Kutaisi. The commanders had the skills and certificates of rock climbing athletes.

For landing, the assault brigade used Mi-6, Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters. The Mi-6 was released in 1957, being at that time the largest in the world, and the first Soviet helicopter with gas turbine engines. In the 60s, the Mi-6 set several international speed and flight altitude records. Landing from this helicopter is carried out using a parachute. The Mi-8, having a lower payload, was released in 1962 - an important feature was its adaptability specifically to combat operations, due to the possibility of high-quality fire support for ground forces.

The Mi-24, created on the basis of the Mi-8, is still used by the armies of many countries around the world, it is equipped with the maximum possible amount of weapons, which does not greatly affect the payload and speed characteristics, 8-10 paratroopers plus crew members - this is exactly the number of people it can accommodate helicopter.

21 DSB in turbulent times of change

At the end of the 80s, there was an armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, it all started with pogroms based on ethnic hatred, then there were attacks on military transport and parts of the armed forces. In July 1989, the separatists captured the Zvartnots airfield, thus completely disrupting air traffic with the USSR. Troops of the 21st Airborne Brigade from Kutaisi landed from helicopters directly onto the tarmac, and within an hour the invaders were driven out of the airport building; no firearms were used. Thus, a bridgehead was prepared for the landing of units of the 76th and 98th Guards Airborne Divisions.

The forces of the 21st Airborne Battalion Brigade organized a rescue operation in Leninakan after the Spitak earthquake in December 1989. The paratroopers also successfully fought against looting in cities and robbery on the roads. As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, on November 4, 1992, the 21st Special Airborne Brigade was withdrawn from Kutaisi to Stavropol. In 2007, the brigade was transformed into the 247th Air Assault Caucasian Cossack Regiment, part of the 7th Guards Airborne Division.

Where to buy paraphernalia with the symbols of 21 DShB?

Vonetorg Voenpro has a line of unique products at its disposal, including flags of individual military units, made to order. Including today you have the opportunity buy flag 21 ODSBr, the basis for which was the Airborne Forces flag.

At the top of the flag you can see the inscription “Uncle Vasya’s Troops”, such an unofficial decoding of the airborne abbreviation is familiar and dear to all Russian paratroopers - this is a tribute to the main figure in the history of the Russian airborne forces, the already mentioned Vasily Filippovich Margelov.

Hero of the Soviet Union, a legend of the Airborne Forces and the creator of this type of troops in its modern form, it was under his leadership that the tactics of conducting combat operations by airborne units were developed, and through his efforts the material and technical base for the operations of paratroopers was developed and put into use. It is with his name that the formation of the Airborne Forces as an elite branch of the military is associated; today, even outside Russia, everyone knows that service in Uncle Vasya’s Troops is very prestigious. Vasily Margelov died in March 1990, but his name will forever remain a shrine for all soldiers in vests.

If your loved one or friend served in the ranks of the Kutaisi Airborne Forces, such a flag will be an excellent gift for him; on Airborne Forces Day, colleagues can gather under it - at the bottom of the flag there is an inscription with the name of the military unit.