Investigators found photos and videos of the ex-militant.

On July 18, 2014, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) published several interceptions of telephone conversations related to downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) on July 17. Most of these conversations, recorded on the day of the downing, took place between an officer identified as "Khmury" and other separatist fighters from the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic." The SBU identified "Khmuroogo" as Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky, a Russian GRU officer. However, neither Western nor Russian-language media paid close attention to his personality for a long time.

This is stated in the Bellingcat project's investigation by a team of researchers into the death of MH17, the text of which was published on Wednesday, February 15.

On April 1, 2015, the Dutch media NRC, NOS and De Telegraaf wrote about “Khmury” after the International Investigation Team (IIT) published a video that included interceptions of telephone conversations, and the identification of the participants in the negotiations was cut out.

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However, on September 18, 2014, the Russian-language online media PolitRussia published an article with a photograph and video about a “DPR” officer named Sergei Petrovsky with the call sign “Khmury.” This publication was based on a video from June 27, 2014, which features an interview with a fighter of the so-called “Donbass People’s Militia” with the call sign “Khmury”. However, the name "Khmury" is not in this video.

Later in our article we will show that the person who came to Slavyansk from Moscow and gave a video interview is obviously not the same “Khmury” who is present in the intercepted phone call. Another video entitled “Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky (call sign Khmury, Bad Soldier)”, uploaded on October 2, 2014, features an appeal from a masked man - according to the title of the video, Sergei Petrovsky. This video was uploaded even earlier, on June 12, 2014, under the title “Strelkov’s Special Forces.” It appears to be a different person than the person being interviewed in the June 27 video, as their voices are significantly different.

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On November 30, 2014, the Russian news site Politikus published an interview with General Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky. The interview states that at that time he was the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the "Donetsk People's Republic", and that his military career began in the Soviet army in 1984, when he went to fight in Afghanistan.

In the 90s, he took part in the wars in South Ossetia and Chechnya, where he met Igor “Strelkov” Girkin, who in 2014 was the “Minister of Defense of the DPR.” In another interview published on December 25, 2014 on the Russian ultranational-patriotic news site Zavtra, he calls himself “Major General Sergei Petrovsky” and mentions that he was born in 1962 in the Donetsk region. It is unclear whether he received the rank of major general in the Russian Federation, in the self-proclaimed DPR, or both. It is also mentioned that he served in the Soviet and Russian armies for over 30 years.

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An earlier interview with Khmury, then a colonel, was published in 2003 on the Russian news resource Izvestia. This interview is mentioned in a 2016 Globalized blog post. In the same post, as well as in another post (dated November 28, 2014), it is indicated that a user who called himself “Bad Soldier”, with an avatar with the inscription “Gloomy”, often posted on the forum of the website Antikvariat, dedicated to history, military relics and other topics. Igor “Strelkov” Girkin also often published reports on the war in Ukraine on this forum. On this forum, “Khmury” wrote on July 19, 2014 that he is Colonel Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky, Deputy Minister of Defense of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” for Guard Intelligence.

The real identity of “Sergei Petrovsky” (this name turned out to be a pseudonym) was revealed thanks to the hacking of Igor Girkin’s email in May 2014. Several letters from Girkin’s mail were published, including one sent on April 28, 2014 by Sergei Dubinsky from the address [email protected]. The letter said: “Hello, Igor, have you forgotten Bison yet?” The name and email address point to a social media page that shows Dubinsky was born on August 9, 1962, and lived in Donetsk, Ukraine. It is worth noting that the date of birth (1962) differs from that stated by the SBU (1964).

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By email you can find a forum on the website of the 181st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 108th Motorized Rifle Division, which participated in the war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. At the forum, after a list of soldiers and years of service, on July 18, 2010, the guest introduces himself as “Karakhan” and Sergei Dubinsky, who served from 1985 to 1987 and lives in Donetsk. In 2011, he registered under the nickname "Karakhan", indicating that his name was Sergei Dubinsky and that he was born on August 9, 1962, and attached a photo of himself in a colonel's military uniform.

Soon after, another fellow soldier also posted several photos of him, and in 2016, another former fellow soldier posted a larger photo of Sergei Dubinsky in uniform, captioning it “Petrovsky, Dvorkovsky, Khmury, Zubr, Bison and our Karakhan,” as well as “” Gloomy" in the DPR." These posts have now been deleted. The video on the forum and on YouTube contains the same photograph of Sergei Dubinsky in military uniform.

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The photograph of Sergei Dubinsky in uniform appears to have been edited (for example, a fragment of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland is missing). Moreover, the number of medals is quite typical for a colonel who has had a military career since 1984. However, most of the medals on his uniform date back to the Soviet era, such as the "Order of the Red Star", "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", the medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR", three medals "For Irreproachable Service", as well as the Jubilee Medal" 70 years of the USSR Armed Forces." The medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" was given only to people who served in the Armed Forces of the USSR for at least 25 years, and the medals "For Impeccable Service" were given to those who served in the Armed Forces of the USSR for 10, 15 and 20 years.

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Thus, a person who had served since 1984 could not receive these medals since the USSR ceased to exist in 1991. Two medals at the bottom right were issued to veterans of the Afghan War: the badge “For Internationalist Fighters” and the medal “From the Grateful Afghan People.” Only the two "Orders of Courage" at the top left appear to have been received during service in the Russian army.

The medal at the top right is, apparently, the anniversary medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", which in 1993 was awarded, according to another source, only to veterans of the 2nd World War, as well as former juvenile prisoners of concentration camps . Since Dubinsky was born in 1962, he could not belong to these categories.

His photograph appeared in articles about the "DPR" on August 10, 2015, September 14, 2015 and November 12, 2015, but it was not until November 19, 2016 that a link to MH17 was made on a website dedicated to Donetsk. These photographs of Sergei Dubinsky were published on the scandalous website “Peacemaker,” which collects personal data (mainly from open sources) of Russians, separatists and alleged collaborators related to the war in Donbass. On February 7, 2017, the InformNapalm open source research team published additional information about Sergei Dubinsky, indicating his current place of residence: Russia, Rostov region, Bolshoy Log, Molodezhnaya street 4B.

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Bellingcat was able to discover another page of Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky. It states that the user was born on August 9, 1962, and lived in Donetsk (Ukraine), as well as in Rostov-on-Don. Judging by the photographs on the page, in the summer of 2010 Dubinsky and his family lived in Russia, or at least visited Russia, but in the summer of 2011 they lived in Ukraine.

According to the open database of the Rostov-on-Don traffic police, Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky, born on August 9, 1962, lived in Stepnoy on an unknown street in house number 1, apt. 117. From 1998 to 2004, 3 cars were registered in his name. Stepnoy is a military town in the Rostov region, where the 22nd separate special forces brigade, or military unit 11659, is based. This brigade belongs to the Main Intelligence Directorate - "GRU".

Photos in Dubinsky's album prove that in the fall and December 2014 he was in Donetsk (Ukraine). In a photograph taken in the fall of 2014, Dubinsky is captured with Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov, who visited Donetsk on October 30, 2014.

The photo, taken in December 2014, shows Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin, who is banned from entering Ukraine because of his support for pro-Russian separatists, and Okhlobystin's wife Oksana Arbuzova with Dubinsky. Okhlobystin visited Donbass at the end of November 2014, and Donetsk on November 30, 2014. Okhlobystin met with Igor “Strelkov” Girkin and claimed that he received a watch for Christmas from “Khmury” - Major General Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky.

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Sergey Dubinsky with Mikhail Porechenkov in Donetsk in the fall of 2014 (photo uploaded on October 15, 2016).

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Sergei Dubinsky with Ivan Okhlobystin and his wife in Donetsk in December 2014 (photo uploaded on October 15, 2016).

In the photo taken in December 2014, Dubinsky is wearing the Russian uniform of a major general. It can be compared, for example, with the uniform of the speaker of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. Dubinsky appears to be wearing a “GRU Spetsnaz” patch. At the same time, the emblem of the Russian Ground Forces is clearly visible on the patch, although Dubinsky allegedly resigned in April 2014, going to serve in the “DPR.”

Dubinsky apparently left Donetsk in early 2015; at the same time, he was allegedly banned from entering the “DPR” for extorting money from businessmen. According to the decision of the Aksai District Court of the Rostov Region dated April 17, 2015, funds were recovered from Dubinsky. It is also mentioned that he received a pension for his service in various military units. The first of them is military unit No. 61019. Apparently, this part was formed quite a long time ago - there is no information about it on the Internet. The second of the mentioned units is the already mentioned above military unit No. 11659 - the 22nd special forces brigade, and the third is military unit No. 51019 - the 116th separate special purpose radio unit, also located in Stepnoy.

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The photographs published in the summer of 2016 show Dubinsky’s new house, which was geolocated to the same address as indicated in the InformNapalm article: Rostov region, Bolshoy Log, Molodezhnaya street. It was not possible to confirm only the house number, since Google and Yandex maps do not show the numbers of all houses on this street. However, it is likely that the house number is 4a, not 4b. The background of the photo matches Google Streetview. In another photo, Dubinsky is seen in a Canadian-made Can-Am Commander XT all-terrain vehicle. A new all-terrain vehicle of this model costs almost $15,000.

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The new house of Sergei Dubinsky, where he (and his family) have probably lived since 2015. Photo uploaded August 8, 2016.

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Sergei Dubinsky in a Can-Am Commander XT all-terrain vehicle, probably in front of his house. Photo uploaded on August 4, 2016.

Bellingcat draws the following conclusion: the person whose phone was tapped by the Security Service of Ukraine on July 17, 2014 (if the SBU correctly identified his voice and/or knew that the tapped phone belonged to him and, accordingly, was related to the transportation of the Buk that shot down the same day MH17) - this is Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky with the call sign “Khmury”.

Dubinsky is a Russian combat veteran who held the rank of colonel in July 2014, fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, and subsequently served in the 22nd GRU Spetsnaz Brigade. This, apparently, is not the same person as the bearded “Khmury” in the interview, who probably used the same call sign: on July 2, 2014, Dubinsky wrote on the Antikvariat forum that he had been confused with another person. However, Dubinsky could be the masked man in the video uploaded in October 2014 under the title “Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky (call sign Khmury, Bad Soldier), previously uploaded on June 12, 2014 under the name “Strelkov’s Special Forces.” In the same post on the Antiques forum "Dated July 2, 2014, Dubinsky wrote that he does not appear in the media, with one exception: he reads the text on a video dated June 12, 2014.

He lives with his family in the Rostov region, in a good-quality brick house on the Bolshoy Log farm. He rides an expensive Canadian ATV, owns a plot of several tens of acres and, perhaps, still likes to drink - neighbors at his previous place of residence even gave Dubinsky the nickname Drunken Roger. He probably loves to remember the Afghanistan and Chechnya he went through. There was only one day in this man’s life that he is unlikely to talk about with strangers: July 17, 2014, the day of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash near Donetsk.

On July 18, a day after the tragedy that claimed the lives of 298 people, the Security Service of Ukraine published a recording of a telephone conversation that, according to the Ukrainian intelligence service, took place around 9 a.m. on July 17. On the recording, among other things, the voices of two people are heard; their call signs are named in the credits - “Khmury” and “Buryat”. “Buryat” asks where he should “load the beauty” that he “just brought to Donetsk.” "Gloomy" replies: "Is that what I'm thinking about?" “Yes, Buk, Buk,” “Buryat” confirms his guess. A few minutes later, “Khmury” is discussing with another interlocutor, “Sanych,” where the rocket launcher needs to be delivered. Having received instructions, he makes another call to one of his subordinates: “Look at the map, Pervomaiskoye. You are located somewhere in that area. Your task is to guard this little thing that you are about to transport.”
Two years later, this telephone conversation will become one of the main pieces of evidence in the materials of the International Investigation Team headed by the Dutch Prosecutor's Office to determine the causes of the Boeing crash. The main version of the international group was and remains unchanged: the plane was shot down from territory then controlled by the separatists, using a Buk-M1 missile launcher brought from Russia. The same version is adhered to by the authors of numerous independent investigations, and only official Moscow, having presented a dozen mutually exclusive versions to the public, still categorically denies its involvement in the tragedy.
Thanks to open sources, primarily photographs and videos on social networks, we now know almost everything about the Buk road from Russia to Ukraine. The circle of people is also known, one of whom could have pressed the rocket launch button that day. Now, as experts from the independent group Bellingcat say in their new investigation, they have managed to finally establish the identity of another person involved in the Boeing crash, that same “Khmury.” He turned out to be a retired Russian military man, professional intelligence officer Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky, who for a long time hid behind various call signs and nicknames, as well as the fictitious surname “Petrovsky”.

For the first time after the Boeing disaster, Khmury appeared in public space in the fall of the same year. On September 18, the pro-Kremlin website Politrussia.ru published a long interview with “Colonel, Deputy Minister of Defense, Head of the Intelligence Department of the DPR Army Sergei Petrovsky.” On the advertising banner, specially made for the article, the same call sign was written in large letters - “Khmury”. The article used a fragment of a video with “Khmury”, in which he appears as a man with short gray hair and a beard, promising to “get to Kyiv.”

In November - another interview, in December - another, and from them we will learn in general terms almost all stages of the “combat path” of “Khmury” before he became the chief intelligence officer of the “DPR”: born in Donetsk in 1962 (SBU in his video he claims that in 1964, but this mistake can be attributed to the haste in which it was prepared), he fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, where he met Igor Strelkov-Girkin, and served in the armies of the USSR and the Russian Federation for a total of 30 years .

The earliest interview with Khmury that Bellingcat experts were able to find was published in 2003 in the Izvestia newspaper. Then “Khmury” was a colonel and served in the Caucasus, in Chechnya. "Who are you fighting with?" – the journalist asks him. “With those who don’t want to live in Russia according to our Russian laws, don’t want to pray to our faith,” answers “Khmury.”
Traces of “Khmury” were also found on the collectors’ forum forum-antikvariat.ru, where Igor Strelkov liked to write about the progress of affairs in Novorossiya. There "Gloomy" wrote under the nickname Bad Soldier. Here is one of his messages (spelling and punctuation preserved):
“Well, sho.decadents.now thanks to the betrayal of some representatives of Moscow.who handed over my data.allow me to formally introduce myself—Deputy Minister of Defense of the DPR for Guard Intelligence, Colonel Petrovsky Sergei Nikolaevich.aka Khmury.aka sincerely your Bad Soldier.”
The message was published on July 19, 2014, two days after the Boeing crash and one day after the SBU of Ukraine published the interception of Khmury’s conversations, indicating in the video that he was related to “DPR intelligence.”
We managed to find out the real name and surname of “Khmury-Petrovsky” almost by accident, while studying Igor Strelkov’s email hacked by hackers. Fragments of his letters were published in May 2014 by the Humpty Dumpty hacker group. One of the messages addressed to Strelkov was written from the address [email protected] and it looked like this:
April 28, 2014 8:27 pm
Dubinsky Sergey
Hello, Igor, have you forgotten Zubr yet?
This email address led specialists from Bellingcat to the page of a user of the social network “My World” with the same nickname – karahan1962. A photograph of Petrovsky was found there, taken, judging by the area depicted on it, in Afghanistan.
A mention of the same email address was found on the forum of veterans of the 181st motorized rifle regiment that participated in the Afghan operation. In the virtual "roll call" of colleagues in 2010, the address " [email protected]" is mentioned as belonging to Sergei Dubinsky, "senior lieutenant", "deputy commander of a reconnaissance company", who served in Afghanistan in 1985-1987, and now (in 2010 - RS) living in Donetsk. On August 11, 2016, a message appears on the forum ( birthday greeting), which lists all the “nicknames” and “call signs” of “Khmury-Petrovsky-Dubinsky”:
“And be you, Seryoga, even “Khmury” in the DPR, even General “Petrovsky” or “Dvorkovsky” or the commandant of Khankala “Bison” or “Bison”, well, or “Karakhan” in Latin America, I remembered you then, in a cap , in Afghanistan, in Karimov’s greenery near the kariz, where we had to climb.”
On the same page we see the first large photo of Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky - in the uniform of a colonel, hung with orders and medals, including awards for the war in Afghanistan. True, upon careful examination, you can see that some of the images of awards in the photo were faked using Photoshop, and Dubinsky could not have possessed some medals at all. For example, the medal “Veteran of the USSR Armed Forces” was awarded to those who served in the Soviet army for at least 25 years, and Dubinsky entered service only in 1984, when less than 10 years remained before the collapse of the Union.
Subsequently, this ceremonial photograph was reprinted several times on the websites of pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass, still calling Sergei Dubinsky by his fictitious surname - “Petrovsky”. One of the publications even contains a photograph of Dubinsky-Petrovsky’s identity card as “chief of the DPR Intelligence Directorate,” issued by the head of the so-called “people’s republic” Alexander Zakharchenko.

The man in the photo in the colonel’s uniform does not at all look like “Khmury” with a beard and short gray hair, who appeared in several videos and photos from the “DPR.” However, Dubinsky himself, at the same forum of veterans of the 181st regiment, explains it this way: “I don’t have any reconnaissance group. Some comrades confused me with a person from Slavyansk who recently gave an interview and has a similar call sign. I’m a non-media person. The only exception is I read the text on YouTube in the video “SPECIAL FORCES STRELKOV part 1” (in this video Dubinsky is wearing a mask, but his voice is similar to the one heard on the films published by the SBU).
In July 2016, volunteers from another investigative group, InformNapalm, tracked down Sergei Dubinsky’s former neighbors in the Donetsk region, in the village of Velikaya Novoselka, where he had lived since 2005. On the InformNapalm website, Dubinsky’s biography is described from the words of his fellow villagers as follows: in the 80-90s he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, and after that in the Russian army. In 1997, he retired to the reserve and lived in the Rostov region. In 2002, he was called up from the reserve personnel department of the North Caucasus Military District (today the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation) and sent to serve as part of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus. In 2004, he quit again and soon moved in with his mother in the Donetsk region (the service apartment remained with his wife). Later it turned out that during the second transfer to the reserve, Dubinsky’s documents were lost when sent to the military registration and enlistment office, and formally he remained in the service. At the same time, Dubinsky continued to receive a military pension. At some point, this was discovered during the next inspection of the military unit to which he was assigned, and in 2015 the court decided to recover from Sergei Dubinsky all the money paid to him.
The court decision (link, saved copy) refers to the 22nd separate special forces brigade of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Federation (military unit 11659), located in the village of Stepnoy, Rostov region. Dubinsky went there to resolve the problem with the lost documents. In addition, the decision mentions another military unit where Dubinsky served as deputy commander for educational work - 51019. This military unit belongs to the 116th Separate Radio Unit for Special Purpose and is also located in Stepnoye.
Soon, Bellingcat investigators found another profile of Dubinsky - on the Odnoklassniki social network (access to it is now open only to friends). From the photographs published in it, it follows that in 2010 Dubinsky again began to visit often or even settled in the Rostov region, although in the summer of 2011 he had already returned to Ukraine. There is a person with the same first and last name in the unofficial database of vehicle owners nomer.org. According to the data contained in it, he actually lived in Stepnoye from 1998 to 2004. Pictures from Dubinsky’s album in Odnoklassniki also confirm the fact that in the fall and winter of 2014 he was in Donetsk - for example, he took pictures with Russian actors Mikhail Porechenkov and Ivan Okhlobystin who came to Donbass.
In a December photo with Okhlobystin and his wife Oksana Arbuzova, Sergei Dubinsky is already posing in the uniform of a major general, with a patch that is too blurry to accurately determine its identity - it could be a GRU special forces or ground forces patch.
From the same account in Odnoklassniki, as well as from publications on the websites of pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, the further fate of Sergei Dubinsky became clear. Apparently, he left the Donetsk region in early 2015 and now lives in the Rostov region of Russia. He was expelled from the “DPR” with a scandal and an entry ban: according to the Politnavigator website, the reason could be rumors that Dubinsky was “squeezing property from the Donetsk people” or “the inability to integrate into the rigid state vertical of power of the DPR.” Despite this, it seems that he managed to solve the problems with the illegally accrued military pension: in the photographs, Dubinsky poses behind the wheel of a brand new imported ATV worth about $15,000, and his farm, in comparison with the rest of the houses on the farm, looks, if not luxurious, then at least prosperous . ​Investigators from Bellingcat and the InformNapalm group managed to determine the location of this house - it is the Bolshoy Log farmstead, Molodezhnaya Street, building 4a or 4b.
The authors of the investigation conclude: Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky, aka Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky, aka “Khmury”, is the same person, and it was his voice that was heard on the recording of the separatists’ conversations on the morning of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash. According to the authors of the investigation, a copy of it, containing all the details and links to sources, will soon be sent to the International Investigation Team (JIT). In the fall of 2016, its representatives announced that they were extending the investigation into the crash of flight MH17 until 2018.

This is what I read this morning in the electronic press - and not in the most “blue” publication, brothers and sisters!

Upon closer examination, it turned out that a foreign Internet agency called something with the letter “b” had self-proclaimed to assume the role of an international expert in shooting down Boeing based on open information on the Internet, which, as I understand it, they themselves posted.

The principle of operation is clear, let’s look at the motives: truly authoritative experts cannot give an exact answer to how the Malaysian Boeing was shot down, but the upcoming billion-dollar compensation payments to the unfortunate relatives of those killed in the plane crash are rushing lawyers.

There is no doubt: the victims deserve much more, if not to say quite honestly - no money will be returned to the mothers of the dead children.

But the very fact of speculation on their feelings is disgusting, like a glamorous poetess who wishes the great Russian writer a painful death for his ability to personally match the scale of his own creativity. In general, it's hell!

At the next turn of this “carousel”, a foreign fake “whistleblower” agency pulled the biography of General Khmury from the network - he was allegedly involved in the death of Boeing.

Sergei Dubinsky, call sign Khmury, is a respected Russian military man who honestly devoted his entire life to serving the Fatherland, even when the Fatherland, during the period of social discord in the mid-90s, sometimes entrusted him with meaningless and destructive tasks.

He had already retired, but once again he was unlucky: a coup d’etat took place in his native Ukraine - and, as a soldier, he could not help but stand up for the Constitution and joined the Slavyansk militia, under the flag of Strelkov.

Plus, of course, Khmury’s ancestors fought against fascism, and he did it with pleasure.

My father also fought with the fascists, and therefore, when the Donbass was engulfed in bloody confrontation, I considered it my civic duty to somehow support the nascent republic.

I brought a cup for the Divine Liturgy and my new film “Priest-san” to the Donetsk Cathedral. As a matter of fact, this was the premiere show. It cost me the refusal of most distributors to show this film, but... money splashes!

My wife was with me, and she took care of all the administrative work, which allowed me to get to know Khmury in detail.

As the head of counterintelligence, Khmury coordinated the arrival of all sorts of guests. Before that, he received Mikhail Porechenkov, and later Mikhail gave the most positive feedback about the general.

“Boeing was shot down by Okhlobystin, Porechenkov, and there was another guy,” they later wrote online. One guy is Gloomy.

I can attest to the high moral level of General Khmury. He is a Russian soldier! It cannot be that he gave the order to shoot at a passenger plane. He would rather shoot himself.

Of course, like any person, Khmury has his weaknesses. But this does not apply to Christian morality and fanatical loyalty to the oath.

Someone may reproach me for the pompous style. But, excuse me, I have a feeling that now the Ukrainian special services will make every effort to kill Khmury and blame everything on the Russian ones. For the agency with the letter “b,” this will be an indirect confirmation of Russia’s involvement in the tragedy.

So my characterization of Khmury subconsciously contains elements of an obituary.

Although I really hope that the general’s currently serving colleagues will ensure his safety.

Something like this.

It is, of course, a little gloomy, but so be it. Lately we have almost forgotten how to praise. Find fault as much as you like. Social media has corrupted us. Possibility of remote, unpunished rudeness.

And about the “exposures” of the fake interactive agency.

Firstly, the armed forces of the republic are perfectly disciplined, they were founded by military officers with extensive experience, and I cannot imagine that such serious equipment as the Buk would be transported openly, and even broadcast about it on free radio conversations.

Secondly, this tragedy only harmed the republic, but it was very beneficial for Ukraine, taking into account the inglorious death of part of its army in two cauldrons. The tragedy attracted the attention of the world community, and the Republican army became uncomfortable with being too harsh. Although the opposite side didn’t do anything to people: they crushed them with armored personnel carriers and burned them alive.

Thirdly, I have already said - the highest moral level of both General Khmury and every real warrior of Novorossiya does not allow them to shoot at civilians. Moreover, in Novorossiya this is punishable under martial law.

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic and my good friend Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko says this: we will build a fair, legal state, even if it costs us our lives! Otherwise there is no point!

I believe him, as a Russian to a Russian, as a Christian to a Christian, as a citizen to a citizen of the Republic of Novorossiya, and with it the entire Russian world!

The international expert-journalism group Bellingcat published a report on the downing of MH17, which states that the transportation of the Buk anti-aircraft missile launcher from which the plane was shot down was organized by Russian Major General Sergei Dubinsky.

Russian Major General Sergei Dubinsky, who organized the transportation of the Buk anti-aircraft missile launcher that was used to shoot down MH17 / bellingcat.com

The full text of the report presented by TSN, according to which, on April 1, 2015, the Dutch media NRC, NOS and De Telegraaf wrote about “Khmury” after the International Investigation Team (IIT) published a video in which telephone conversations were intercepted, but the identities of the participants were not identified negotiations were cut out.

However, on September 18, 2014, the Russian-language online media PolitRussia published an article with a photo and video about “DPR” officer Sergei Petrovsky with the call sign “Khmury.” This publication is based on a video from June 27, 2014, which features an interview with a fighter of the so-called “Donbass People’s Militia” with the call sign “Khmury”. However, the name "Khmury" is not in this video.

Later in our article we will show that the person who came to Slavyansk from Moscow and gave a video interview is obviously not the same “Khmury” who is present during the intercepted phone call. Another video entitled “Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky (call sign Khmury, Bad Soldier)”, uploaded on October 2, 2014, features an appeal from a masked man - in accordance with the title of the video, Sergei Petrovsky. This video was uploaded even earlier, on June 12, 2014, under the title “Strelkov’s Special Forces.” It appears to be a different person than the one giving the interview in the June 27 video, as their voices are significantly different.

On November 30, 2014, the Russian news site Politikus published an interview with General Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky. The interview states that at that time he headed the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the "Donetsk People's Republic", and that his military career began in the Soviet army in 1984, when he went to fight in Afghanistan.

In the 90s, he took part in the wars in South Ossetia and Chechnya, where he met Igor “Strelkov” Girkin, who in 2014 was the “Minister of Defense of the DPR.” In another interview published on December 25, 2014 on the Russian ultranational-patriotic news site Zavtra, he calls himself “Major General Sergei Petrovsky” and recalls that he was born in 1962 in the Donetsk region. It is not clear whether he received the rank of major general in the Russian Federation, or in the self-proclaimed “DPR” or both. It is also mentioned that he served in the Soviet and Russian armies for over 30 years.

An earlier interview with Khmury, then a colonel, was published in 2003 on the Russian news resource Izvestia. This interview is mentioned in a 2016 Globalized blog post. In the same post, as well as in another post (dated November 28, 2014), it is indicated that a user who called himself “Bad Soldier”, with an avatar with the inscription “Gloomy”, often posted on the forum of the Antikvariat website, dedicated to history and military relics and other topics. Igor “Strelkov” Girkin also often published reports on the war in Ukraine on this forum. On this forum, “Khmury” wrote on July 19, 2014 that he is Colonel Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky, Deputy Minister of Defense of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” for Guard Intelligence.

The real identity of “Sergei Petrovsky” (this name turned out to be a pseudonym) became known thanks to the hacking of Igor Girkin’s email in May 2014. Several letters from Girkin’s mail were published, including one sent on April 28, 2014 by Sergei Dubinsky from the address [email protected]. The letter said: “Hello, Igor, have you forgotten Bison yet?” The name and email address point to a social media page that shows Dubinsky was born on August 9, 1962, and lived in Donetsk, Ukraine. It is worth noting that the date of birth (1962) differs from that stated by the SBU (1964).

By email you can find a forum on the website of the 181st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 108th Motorized Rifle Division, which took part in the war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. At the forum, after a list of soldiers and years of service, on July 18, 2010, the guest introduces himself as “Karakhan” and Sergei Dubinsky, who served from 1985 to 1987 and lives in Donetsk. In 2011, he registered under the nickname "Karakhan", indicating that his name was Sergei Dubinsky and that he was born on August 9, 1962, and attached a photograph of himself in a colonel's military uniform.

Shortly after this, another fellow soldier also posted several photographs of him, and in 2016, another former fellow soldier posted a large photograph of Sergei Dubinsky in uniform, captioning it “Petrovsky, Dvorkovsky, Khmury, Zubr, Bison and our Karakhan,” as well as “” Gloomy "in the DPR." These posts have now been deleted. The video on the forum and on YouTube contains the same photograph of Sergei Dubinsky in military uniform.

The photograph of Sergei Dubinsky in uniform was apparently edited (for example, a fragment of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland is missing). Moreover, the number of medals is quite typical for a colonel who has had a military career since 1984. However, most of the medals on his uniform date back to the Soviet era, such as the "Order of the Red Star", "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", the medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR", three medals "For Irreproachable Service", as well as the Jubilee Medal" 70 years of the USSR Armed Forces." The medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" was given only to people who served in the Armed Forces of the USSR for at least 25 years, and the medals "For Impeccable Service" were given to people who served in the Armed Forces of the USSR for 10, 15 and 20 years.

Thus, a person who had served since 1984 could not receive these medals since the USSR ceased to exist in 1991. Two medals at the bottom right were issued to veterans of the Afghan War: the badge “For Internationalist Fighters” and the medal “From the Grateful Afghan People.” Only the two “Orders of Courage” at the top left were apparently received during service in the Russian army.

The medal at the top right is apparently the anniversary medal “50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945,” which in 1993 was awarded, according to another source, only to veterans of the 2nd World War, as well as former juvenile prisoners of concentration camps. Since Dubinsky was born in 1962, he could not belong to these categories.

His photograph appeared in articles about the "DPR" on August 10, 2015, September 14, 2015 and November 12, 2015, but it was not until November 19, 2016 that a link to MH17 was made on a website dedicated to Donetsk. These photographs of Sergei Dubinsky were published on the scandalous website “Peacemaker,” which collects personal data (mainly from open sources) of Russians, separatists and alleged collaborators related to the war in Donbass. On February 7, 2017, the InformNapalm open source research team published additional information about Sergei Dubinsky, indicating his current place of residence: Russia, Rostov region, Bolshoy Log, Molodezhnaya street 4B.

Bellingcat was able to discover another page of Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky. It states that the user was born on August 9, 1962, and lived in Donetsk (Ukraine), as well as in Rostov-on-Don. Judging by the photographs on the page, in the summer of 2010 Dubinsky and his family lived in Russia, or at least visited Russia, but in the summer of 2011 they lived in Ukraine.

According to the open database of the Rostov-on-Don traffic police, Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky, who was born on August 9, 1962, lived in Stepnoy on an unknown street in house number 1, apt. 117. From 1998 to 2004, 3 cars were registered in his name. Stepnoe is a military town in the Rostov region, where the 22nd separate special forces brigade, military unit 11659, is based. This brigade belongs to the Main Intelligence Directorate - "GRU".

Photos in Dubinsky's album prove that in the fall and December 2014 he was in Donetsk (Ukraine). The photo, taken in the fall of 2014, shows Dubinsky with Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov, who visited Donetsk on October 30, 2014.

The photo, taken in December 2014, shows Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin, who is banned from entering Ukraine for supporting pro-Russian separatists, with Dubinsky, as well as Okhlobystin's wife Oksana Arbuzova. Okhlobystin visited Donbass at the end of November 2014, and Donetsk on November 30, 2014. Okhlobystin met with Igor “Strelkov” Girkin and claimed that he received a watch for Christmas from “Khmury” - Major General Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky.

The photo, taken in December 2014, shows Dubinsky in the Russian uniform of a major general. It can be compared, for example, with the uniform of the speaker of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. Dubensky, one might assume, is wearing a “GRU Special Forces” patch. At the same time, the emblem of the Russian Ground Forces is clearly visible on the patch, although Dubinsky allegedly resigned in April 2014, going to serve in the “DPR.”

Apparently, Dubinsky left Donetsk in early 2015; at the same time, he was allegedly banned from entering the “DPR” for extorting money from businessmen. According to the resolution of the Aksaysky District Court of the Rostov Region dated April 17, 2015, funds were recovered from Dubinsky. It is also mentioned that he received a pension for his service in various military units. The first of them is military unit No. 61019. Apparently, this part was formed quite a long time ago - there is no information about it on the Internet. The second of the mentioned units is the already mentioned above military unit No. 11659 - the 22nd special forces brigade, and the third - military unit No. 51019 - the 116th separate radio unit for special purposes, also located in Stepnoye.

The photographs published in the summer of 2016 show Dubinsky’s new house, which was geolocalized at the same address as indicated in the InformNapalm article: Rostov region, Bolshoi Log, Molodezhnaya street. It was not possible to confirm only the house number, since Google and Yandex maps do not indicate the numbers of all houses on this street. However, it is likely that the house number is 4a, not 4b. The background of the photo corresponds to Google Streetview. Another photo of Dubinsky also shows a Canadian-made Can-Am Commander XT all-terrain vehicle. A new all-terrain vehicle of this model costs almost $15,000.

Bellingcat came to this conclusion: the person whose phone was tapped by the Security Service of Ukraine on July 17, 2014 (if the SBU correctly identified his voice and/or knew that the phone belonging to him was being tapped and, accordingly, was related to the transportation of the Buk that was shot down in that same day MH17) - this is Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky with the call sign “Khmury”.

The intercepted telephone conversations https://youtu.be/MVAOTWPmMM4 published by the Dutch prosecutor's office and the SBU about the MH17 disaster made it possible to recognize Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky (Dubinsky), hiding under the call sign “Khmury”, in one of the participants in the conversation. In the conversation, “Khmury” reported that he left the army in April 2014 with the rank of major general. “Gloomy” is also known by the names “Petrovsky”, “Sergei Nikolaevich”, “Bad Soldier”, “Drunk Roger”. A little more information about him can be found on the “Peacemaker” website. Volunteers established that “Khmury’s” real name is Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky, born on August 9, 1962. The fact that he was the so-called “Deputy Minister of Defense of the DPR”, “Head of the Intelligence Department of the DPR Army” and “Hero of Novorossiya”.

But let's talk about all this in order.

For obvious reasons, such a character as “Gloomy” could not leave us indifferent. Therefore, we went to the urban village of Velikaya Novoselka, located in the west of the Donetsk region. It was in Velikaya Novosyolka that Sergei Dubinsky spent his childhood and it was there that he lived for several years shortly before the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. His friends, whose names we do not name for obvious reasons, told us about the “stages of Khmury’s long journey” and much more.

According to them, the Dubinsky family was known to many people in Velikaya Novosyolka. The terrorist's father Nikolai worked as an engineer, his mother, Kapitolina Ilyinichna Dubinskaya, worked as a teacher. Both of them are no longer alive.

In the eighties and nineties, Seryoga served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, and then in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 1985-1987 served as deputy commander and commander of a reconnaissance company of the 181st motorized rifle regiment in Kabul (Afghanistan). He was even awarded the Order of the Red Star and “For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces,” says his friend.

In 1997, Sergei Dubinsky retired to the reserve, received a pension and until 2002 lived with his family in the Rostov region (Russian Federation). He later divorced his wife and has a daughter from his first marriage and an illegitimate son. In the spring of 2002, being in the military rank of “lieutenant colonel,” he was called up from the reserve personnel department of the North Caucasus Military District (today the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation) and sent to serve as part of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus. In 2002 - 2004, he served as commander of the 974th commandant company (military unit 22727) and chief of intelligence of the 194th commandant tactical group. In 2004, he retired to the reserve again, but his personal file was lost during shipment, so he de facto remained in the service. At the same time, he managed to receive a pension, which over time was ordered to be returned by a “fair Russian court” (this episode became the starting point for “Khmury” in the history of Donbass).

In 2005, he moved to live with his mother in (Velyka) Novoselka. The fact is that his office apartment was left to his ex (his wife), and he had nowhere to live in Russia,” shared Sergei Dubinsky’s childhood friend. - He and his mother lived on Sovetskaya, 56, apartment 11. Life was not going well for him. He spent his pension in a few days “on booze and women.” Then he took money from his mother’s pension and begged from friends and neighbors. He drank black, for which the locals gave him the nickname “Drunk Roger.” For some time, Gray lived in Novoselka, and then moved to a country house in the village of Storozhevoye. He lived there until approximately June 2014.

In 2011-2012, “Khmury” began to have a bad streak. During one of the audits in parts of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation, illegal payment of his pension since 2004 was revealed. A trial began, as a result of which the court ordered Khmury to return the money received. After this, Dubinsky turned to the command of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation with a request to restore his personal file and document his transfer to the reserve with accrual of a pension. To resolve these issues, in March 2012, he went to the personnel department of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation, where he was given an order to the commander of military unit 11659 (22nd separate special forces brigade of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Stepnoy settlement, Rostov region) for assignment to all types of support and preparation for transfer to the reserve.

In April, Khmury finally achieved his goal and was transferred to the reserve with the rank of colonel. Moreover, all this time he was fictitiously on the lists of his unit, actually living on the territory of Ukraine. Most likely, such privileges were given to Dubinsky for a reason... In return, he was included in the lists of the GRU General Staff of the Russian Federation, which was already preparing for aggression in Ukraine. This is confirmed by the hasty departure of “Khmury” to the Russian Federation in June 2014 and the almost immediate appearance in Slavyansk in the company of his friend from the Second Chechen War, Igor Girkin-Strelkov, as “deputy commander of the DPR army.” In the occupied Ukrainian territory, Sergei Dubinsky creates a special forces company and an intelligence department, the headquarters of which were initially located in Kramatorsk. Subsequently, on the basis of the created “units,” he formed the so-called “Main Intelligence Directorate of the DPR,” which he successfully headed.

At the beginning of 2015, “Roger” left the “DPR” and finally moved to Russia.

In Velikaya Novosyolka we were also told that Sergei Dubinsky has a brother - Roman Nikolaevich Dubinsky, born January 17, 1967. Roman is a citizen of Ukraine, a native of the town. Velyka Novoselka, at different times lived at the following addresses: town. Velyka Novoselka, Donetsk region, st. Sovetskaya, house 56, apt. 11 and Donetsk, st. Zhebeleva, 24, apt. 127.

Roman Dubinsky is married and now lives quite peacefully in Kyiv, where he is the founder and director of Flora-Engineering LLC (Kiev, Shchekavitskaya str., 37/48, office 1). These data are confirmed by the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of Ukraine.

Perhaps many will be interested to know how it happened that such an odious person and his relatives remained out of sight of the Ukrainian special services? Although, unfortunately, we also do not know a definite answer to this question, we were able to establish that after “Khmury” left for Russia, his trace disappeared. For a while. So far we have not been able to find his new address in Russia, where his family lives with him:

Russian Federation, Rostov region, Aksai district, Bolshoi Log village, Molodezhnaya street 4B (house coordinates 47°18’15.8″N 39°54’49.7″E). If we look at this address using Google Maps, we can see the following (photo of the house as of 2012).

Thus, we provide an excellent opportunity to visit their “idol” for everyone: from a simple onlooker to shake hands and listen to the drunken tales of a “seasoned” warrior for independence of who knows what, to a military prosecutor who can now easily serve him a subpoena. We also urge the world community, first of all, those who lost relatives and friends in the Boeing plane crash, to visit the “notorious patriot of Novorossiya” and look him in the eye. Let him answer!

The material was prepared by Oleg Baturin and Sergey Petrenko, GO “Europrostir”.