Radio Liberty has recognized Russian servicemen who have been taken to hospitals in Gomel and Khoiniki in Belarus after being wounded through the offensive on Kyiv in February and March 2022.
Supply: Radio Liberty investigation
Particulars: Radio Liberty has recognized 898 servicemen – together with particular forces, paratroopers and members of the Russian Nationwide Guard – who participated within the try to seize the Ukrainian capital initially of the full-scale invasion and should have been complicit in battle crimes in Kyiv Oblast.
The items involved embrace "particular operations forces" that are thought of "elite" in Russia and are primarily based close to Moscow, in Kubinka (navy unit 28337) and Solnechnogorsk (navy unit 92154). Based on the checklist of wounded sufferers, 16 troopers from these Particular Operations Forces items have been admitted to hospitals in Gomel following the offensive in Kyiv Oblast.
The leaked affected person information means that troopers from different "elite" items – particular forces of the Most important Directorate of the Normal Workers of the Russian Federation (also called the GRU) from Khabarovsk, Tambov, Novosibirsk and Tolyatti – have been additionally taken to Belarus for medical remedy after the battles for Kyiv and Chernihiv.
The leaked paperwork helped the journalists to establish a Russian soldier who’s believed to have been concerned within the killing of civilians in Kyiv Oblast: Aleksandr Kvitko, alias Skipper. He’s the commander of the sixth firm of the 234th Air Assault Regiment from Pskov, which took half within the seize of Bucha.
Oleksandr Kvitko with the alias Skipper.
Photograph: Radio Liberty
Based on the leaked information, Kvitko was taken to a Gomel hospital on 28 March 2022 with shrapnel wounds to his neck, arm, shin and buttock.
Eyewitnesses say that Kvitko could have been concerned within the homicide of Alla Minaieva, an area pensioner who lived within the space that his firm occupied in Bucha.
Ivan Dulkai, a senior police investigator for notably essential instances, advised Radio Liberty: "Civilians who had been serving to the girl [Alla Minaieva – ed.] approached Aleksandr Kvitko and requested if they may go to convey her some meals. Kvitko defined to them that they didn’t have to go to see her anymore, as a result of that they had ‘dealt along with her humanely’."
After Bucha was liberated, Minaieva was discovered lifeless in her residence. She had been shot within the head.
Different paratroopers moreover the 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment have been concerned within the try to seize Kyiv: 4 divisions and a number of other brigades. The paperwork obtained by the journalists show for the primary time that each one these paratroopers have been close to Kyiv on the identical time – in different phrases, that they labored collectively to seize town.
They embrace the thirty first Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade from town of Ulyanovsk, which took half within the try to seize Hostomel airport. The leaked information signifies that 74 wounded troopers from this unit have been handled at Belarusian medical services. For instance, Roman Zyazin, then a 21-year-old Russian serviceman within the brigade, obtained remedy there.
Roman Zyazin.
Photograph: Radio Liberty
The journalists discovered Zyazin on the checklist of sufferers at a Gomel hospital, the place he was admitted on 4 March 2022 with a facial harm and an open fracture of the decrease jaw. Zyazin didn’t return to the entrance line after remedy, however he has continued his navy profession and is now a cadet on the Navy Institute of Bodily Tradition. He has additionally featured in a movie produced by Zvezda, a TV channel owned and run by the Russian Defence Ministry.
The affected person information from the Gomel medical establishments additionally proves that 68 servicemen from the Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) division of Russia’s Nationwide Guard who have been despatched to seize Kyiv by way of Hostomel have been additionally handled there.
They’re from two items of the Nationwide Guard: the Particular Speedy Response Unit (SOBR), established to fight organised crime and terrorism, and the Particular-Objective Cell Unit (OMON), which is meant to make sure public order and forestall riots. In Russia, these items are used to suppress public protests.
Russian BMD-4 in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, the place on 3 March 2022, as reported by Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, 20 fight automobiles of the Russian touchdown pressure have been destroyed.
Photograph: Radio Liberty
Among the many OMON officers wounded through the offensive on Ukraine, the journalists have recognized police lieutenant Aleksei Artamonov. The paperwork present that he sustained shrapnel wounds and bone fractures in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, and was admitted to a Belarusian hospital on 1 March.
Aleksey Artamonov's paperwork. Photograph: Radio Liberty
Photograph: Radio Liberty
One other Russian police officer wounded in Hostomel, Sergeant Ivan Dyukanov, was hospitalised with a head harm and bruises on the identical day.
On 6 March, based on the checklist of wounded troopers, OMON law enforcement officials Andrei Leonov and Andrei Khitrov have been admitted to medical establishments in Gomel. Leonov had sustained a head harm and concussion, and Khitrov a shrapnel wound to the left shin. Radio Liberty has obtained a doc from its sources confirming that Khitrov had been in Hostomel.
Ivan Dukanov and Andrey Leonov.
PHOTO: RADIO LIBERTY
The OMON officers from Kemerovo Oblast are accused, along with members of an OMON detachment from Krasnoyarsk Krai, of killing civilians by Ukrainian legislation enforcement. Particularly, they’re accused of executing civilians in Hostomel on 25 February. 5 Russian Nationwide Guard officers from these items have been served with notices of suspicion for the murders of 5 individuals.
The journalists have additionally recognized about 70 Russian troopers from Buryatia among the many Gomel hospital sufferers. They’re from the fifth Tank Brigade (Ulan-Ude, navy unit 46108) and the thirty seventh Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Kyakhta, navy unit 69647).
Based on Ukrainian legislation enforcement, these have been the 2 items that took management of a part of the Kyiv-Chop (or Zhytomyr) Freeway in March 2022 and opened hearth on the automobiles of civilians who have been driving west in an try to get additional away from the preventing.
Russian navy tools on the Zhytomyr freeway, March 2022.
Photograph: Radio Liberty
Radio Liberty has obtained a doc that was discovered close to the Zhytomyr Freeway after the liberation of Kyiv Oblast. It lists the names of wounded Russian servicemen, together with Zorik Zigbin, Munko-Zhargal Zhalmayev and Dmitry Terentyev.
The names of those three troopers from the fifth Ulan-Ude Tank Brigade have been additionally discovered on the lists of sufferers at a Gomel hospital, the place they have been taken after being injured in Kyiv Oblast in March 2022.
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