Dubinsky Sergey. Bellingcat: the transport of the Buk that shot down MH17 was organized by retired Russian Colonel Dubinsky

The transportation of the Buk, which, according to investigators, shot down flight MH17 in the Donbass, was controlled by a retired Russian officer Sergei Dubinsky, who appeared in the media as the DPR intelligence commander under the pseudonym Khmury

Militiamen at the crash site passenger plane Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777. 2014 (Photo: Zurab Javakhadze / TASS)

On February 15, the international expert-journalistic group Bellingcat, which searches for data from open sources, presented the report “Who is Khmury: a retired major general associated with the fall of MH17.” The authors of the investigation identified Khmury, a member of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), who was responsible for transporting the launcher of the Buk missile system. According to a Bellingcat investigation, he turned out to be retired Russian officer Sergei Dubinsky.

In April 2015, JIT published telephone conversations separatists discussing the details of the plane crash and the transportation of the Buk missile launcher. The voices of two DPR supporters are heard on the recording: Khmury (the SBU previously identified him as DPR Deputy Defense Minister Petrovsky) and Buryat. The separatists discussed the transfer of the Buk launcher to Khmury and methods of transporting the weapon.

Investigators have determined real name Petrovsky using the email archive of Igor Strelkov, published by hackers of the Shaltai-Boltai group. They also managed to discover profile Dubinsky in social network"Classmates". In the fall of 2014, Dubinsky published photographs on his page with actor Mikhail Porechenkov, who visited Donetsk in October, and actor Ivan Okhlobystin. Later, Okhlobystin published on his profile a photo of the watch that Khmury gave him. The photo also shows the ID of Major General Sergei Petrovsky, signed by DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko.

According to the ruling of the Aksai District Court of the Rostov Region, in April 2015, Dubinsky was awarded a military pension for long service. The resolution states that the officer served in military units No. 61019, No. 11659 (22nd separate GRU special forces brigade) and No. 51019 (separate radio unit for special purposes). The last military unit is located in the city of Stepnoy, Rostov region.

Bellingcat shared the findings with the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which is leading the criminal investigation into the downing of Boeing MH17, which was shot down in the Donbass in July 2014. This group includes representatives of investigative authorities from Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Ukraine.

Bellingcat experts also sent JIT data on the activities of the 69th separate logistics brigade of the Russian Armed Forces (military unit No. 11385). As investigators indicate, the unit's military personnel participated in the transportation of a Buk launcher to the Russian-Ukrainian border in June and July 2014. Bellingcat examined military pages on social networks and found a large number of photographs taken in the Rostov region during the transportation of the installation. The photographs show military equipment recorded by eyewitnesses.

RBC sent an official request to the Russian Ministry of Defense about the results of the Bellingcat investigation. Previously, the Defense Department had researched groups related to the crash of the airliner. According to the Russian military, the group’s reports are based on “pseudo-hypotheses” and falsification of data about the crash of MH17.​

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in the skies over Donbass on July 17, 2014. There were 298 people on board flight MH17, most of whom were Dutch citizens. They all died.

In September 2016, JIT released the first results of its investigation into the disaster. During the presentation, the head of the central department of criminal investigations of the National Police of the Netherlands, Wilbert Paulissen, and the Prosecutor General of the Netherlands, Fred Westerbeek, stated that the Buk from which MH17 was shot down was delivered to the territory of the DPR from Russia.

The Russian side has repeatedly denied the JIT's conclusions. In September 2016, the Russian Ministry of Defense provided data from the Utes-T radar complex located in the Rostov region. According to the report of the head of the radio technical troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Major General Andrei Koban, Utes-T did not detect the launch of a surface-to-air missile in territory controlled by the self-proclaimed republics.

The official Russian version is that MH17 was shot down by a Buk launcher, but from territory under the control of the Ukrainian military. As proof of this version, in 2014, the chief operational management General Staff Andrei Kartapolov presented satellite images. On them, the military recorded the movements of the Buk launcher of the Ukrainian army. Also this version confirm the calculations of the manufacturer of the Buk complexes, the Almaz-Antey concern. As the concern's specialists point out, the missile was launched in the area of ​​the village of Zaroshchenskoye, which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, was at that moment under the control of the Ukrainian army.

Bellingcat is an international expert journalist group founded on July 15, 2014 by British journalist Eliot Higgins. The team's mission is to unite citizen journalists in investigating current events. Currently, Bellingcat's main project is investigating the circumstances of the Malaysian Boeing crash. The team is also monitoring the military campaign in Syria, including the actions of Russian military personnel. In its reports, Bellingcat relies on open sources: video and photographic materials posted on social networks, satellite images. Bellingcat is supported by private donations raised through the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. The team employs more than two dozen people and a large number of volunteers who help the project free of charge.

The reliability of Bellingcat's information has sometimes been questioned foreign media. German in June Spiegel magazine interviewed forensic photography analysis expert Jens Kreise. The reason was a Bellingcat study, in which, according to the group, it was proven that the Russian Ministry of Defense had manipulated photographs of the downed flight MH17. Kreise said that the method used by Bellingcat, from an expert point of view, does not stand up to criticism. “It is based on the so-called ELA analysis. This method unscientific and subjective. Accordingly, there is not a single scientific article devoted to this method,” he said (quoted from InoSMI.ru). Spiegel Online editor-in-chief Florian Harms issued an official apology to readers in June after the editorial office, based on information from Bellingcat, gave affirmative headlines that Russia manipulated the images. According to Kharms, news with reference to Bellingcat research should have been given in subjunctive mood, since the researchers' statements have not been properly verified by the editors.

Military pensioner Sergei Dubinsky is 54 years old. He lives with his family in the Rostov region, in a good-quality brick house on a farm Bolshoi Log. He rides an expensive Canadian ATV and owns a plot of several tens of acres. He probably loves to remember the Afghanistan and Chechnya he went through. There was only one day in this man's life that he was unlikely to talk about with anyone. strangers: July 17, 2014, the day of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash near Donetsk. This is evidenced by the findings of the international research group Bellingcat, presented in the latest report.

As they write in their July 18 report, 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 special service, took place at about 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.”

The caption on the video says that “Khmury” is actually “Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky, Russian GRU officer, Igor Strelkov-Girkin’s representative on intelligence matters.”

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.

Video from the International Investigation Team, which uses fragments of separatist negotiations intercepted by the SBU on the day of the Boeing crash:

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 they say in their new investigation experts of an independent group bellingcat, it was possible 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, a professional intelligence officer. Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky, for a long time hiding behind various call signs and nicknames, as well as the fictitious surname “Petrovsky”. It is worth noting that this conclusion is based on one important assumption: the SBU of Ukraine was not mistaken in identifying the voice on the tapes as “Khmury”.

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 gray hair short hair and a beard, promises to “get to Kyiv.”

“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” (on this video Dubinsky is wearing a mask, but his voice is similar to the one heard on the tapes published by the SBU).

In July 2016, volunteers from another investigative team, InformNapalm, found the former neighbors of Sergei Dubinsky in the Donetsk region, in the village of Velikaya Novoselka, where he lived since 2005. On the site InformNapalm 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 Russia) and sent to serve as part of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus. In 2004, he quit his job again and soon moved to 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.

From the same account in Odnoklassniki, as well as from publications on the websites of pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, it became clear that further fate Sergei Dubinsky. Apparently, he left the Donetsk region in early 2015 and now lives in the Rostov region of Russia. He was kicked out of the "DPR" group 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 groups InformNapalm We managed to determine the location of this house - this is the Bolshoy Log farm.

There is another, almost direct evidence that Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinsky is involved in transporting the Buk to Pervomaisky, to the place from where the shot was allegedly fired at the Boeing. On becoming famous video transporting the Buk through Makeevka, among others, a Peugeot 3008 car is visible.

At the "Global Adventure" forum, which specializes in discussing military conflicts and

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 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 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 e-mail You can find the 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 his photograph to military uniform colonel.

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 led military career since 1984. However, most of the medals on his uniform are from Soviet era, for example, "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 Impeccable Service", as well as the anniversary medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". 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" 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) 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, identifying him current location residence: Russia, Rostov region, Bolshoi Log, Molodezhnaya street 4B.

Bellingcat managed 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.

Photo taken in December 2014, with Dubinsky in the photo Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin, who is banned from entering Ukraine for supporting pro-Russian separatists, 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.

In the photo taken in December 2014, Dubinsky in Russian uniform 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 is clearly visible on the patch Ground Forces Russia, 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.

Photos published in the summer of 2016 show new house Dubinsky, who was geolocalized to 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, because Google maps and Yandex 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. About the "stages" long way“Khmury” and many other things were told to us by his friends, whose names we do not name for obvious reasons.

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 Armed Forces USSR, and then in the RF Armed Forces. 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). Later he divorced his wife, has a daughter from his first marriage and illegitimate son. In the spring of 2002, while in military rank“Lieutenant Colonel” 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 “fairly Russian court“obliged to return (this episode became the starting point for “Khmury” in the story with 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, why? local distances His nickname is "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 instant appearance in Slavyansk in the company of his friend from the Second Chechen war Igor Girkin-Strelkov in the position of “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 Novoselka we were also told that Sergei Dubinsky has brother- Roman Nikolaevich Dubinsky, born January 17, 1967 Roman is a citizen of Ukraine, a native of the town. Velyka Novoselka, in different time 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 (Kyiv, Shchekavitskaya str., 37/48, office 1). These data are confirmed by the United state register legal entities 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 great opportunity everyone can visit their “idol”: 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”.

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The Bellingcat group, which is investigating the crash of a Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk in July 2014, stated that the person responsible for transporting the Buk anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) from Russia to the territory of Donbass was retired Russian military man Sergei Dubinsky, who in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic known to the republic under the call sign "Khmury". This Buk was presumably used to shoot down a passenger plane.

The transportation of the air defense system, according to Bellingcat, was carried out by the 69th separate logistics brigade of the Russian Armed Forces. Bellingcat indicates that the conclusion about this brigade was made based on an analysis of photographs from military social networks taken in the Rostov region during the transport of the Buk.

The voices of two DPR supporters, Khmury and Buryat, can be heard on the recording. The separatists discussed the transfer of the Buk launcher to Khmury and methods of transporting the weapon. SBU experts determined that the voice of a fighter with the call sign Khmury belongs to Sergei Nikolaevich Petrovsky, a retired officer Russian army. According to Ukrainian security officials, Petrovsky served in the GRU military intelligence and retired in 2014.

A man who introduced himself as Petrovsky (Khmury) gave interviews to ( , ) Russian publications several times until 2015 as the head of the main intelligence department of the DPR, Deputy Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov. According to Bellingcat, these interviews are not related to the real Khmury.

Finding out real personality Petrovsky, Bellingcat discovered his profile on the military-historical forum "Antiques". During a discussion of the fighting in southeastern Ukraine, the user “Bad Soldier” introduced himself as Petrovsky and called himself “Deputy Minister of Defense of the DPR for Intelligence.” This information is publicly available confirmed Igor Strelkov, registered on Antikvariat under the pseudonym Kotych.

Investigators determined Petrovsky's real name using the email archive of Igor Strelkov, published by hackers of the Shaltai-Boltai group. In April 2014, Strelkov was sent a message from the address " [email protected]". In the letter, an unknown person asked Strelkov if he had forgotten about Bison. Bellingcat was able to find several profiles on social networks associated with this mailing address.

On the forum of the 108th Motorized Rifle Regiment, which took part in combat operations in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, an unknown user indicated the name of Sergei Dubinsky, years of service in the unit and personal email, which completely coincides with the address published by a group of hackers. The phone number indicated by the forum user is working, but the man who answered the phone told RBC that he was in no way connected with Dubinsky or Strelkov.

On the same forum, users later posted a photo of Dubinsky in military uniform with military awards - in this photo he does not look like the man who gave a video interview to Russian publications in 2014-2015. One of the discussion participants named Dubinsky’s call signs: Khmury, Zubr, Bison, Petrovsky - and said that he served with the officer in Afghanistan.

Investigators were able to find profile Dubinsky on the Odnoklassniki social network. In the fall of 2014, Dubinsky published photographs on his page with actor Mikhail Porechenkov, who visited Donetsk in October, and actor Ivan Okhlobystin. Later, Okhlobystin published on his profile a photo of the watch that Khmury gave him. The photo also shows the ID of Major General Sergei Petrovsky, signed by DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko.

According to the ruling of the Aksai District Court of the Rostov Region, in April 2015, Dubinsky was awarded a military pension for long service. The resolution states that the officer served in military units No. 61019, No. 11659 ( 22nd separate GRU special forces brigade) and No. 51019 (separate radio unit for special purposes). The last military unit is located in the city of Stepnoy, Rostov region. According to open data, three cars were registered in the name of Sergei Dubinsky, who lives in Stepnoy. The date of birth – August 9, 1962, indicated in the database, coincides with the information on the officer’s personal page on the Odnoklassniki social network. As it turned out, Petrovsky served in the Soviet and Russian armies for more than 30 years.

The Bellingcat investigation also indicates that in the summer of 2016, Dubinsky posted on his page a photo of the new house where the retired officer moved in 2015. Dubinsky also posted a photo of the Can-Am Commander XT all-terrain vehicle. The manufacturer’s website lists the price of the vehicle – from $15 thousand.​

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Russian authorities have information that the Buk that shot down the Boeing was delivered to the territory of Ukraine from Russia. The Russian side has not yet commented on the possible involvement of Dubinsky and the 69th separate logistics brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in the crash.

RBC journalists sent an official request to the Russian Ministry of Defense about the results of the Bellingcat investigation. The Russian military department had previously criticized the group's materials about the crash. These materials, the ministry believes, are based on pseudohypotheses and falsification of data.

In May last year, Bellingcat identified the possible number of the Buk from which the missile was fired. Last October, rumors suggested that ten people linked to the crash had allegedly approached the JIT.

The crash of a passenger plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur killed 298 people.

February 16, 20:43 Presumably Sergei Dubinsky commented on the Bellingcat investigation.

The BBC Russian service via email (the address appeared in the Bellingcat investigation and other sources) contacted the alleged hero of the publication, nicknamed Khmury, who refused to give a full interview, but briefly commented on the report<...>

“Such “investigations” are nothing more than an attempt to divert the investigation away from the fact that the shooting was carried out from a Ukrainian Buk. For a person with minimal knowledge of geography and who knows where the front line was at that time, such articles are nothing but they cannot cause homeric laughter,” wrote the alleged hero of the Bellingcat publication in response to the BBC’s request for an interview.

Russian service "BBC"

“In a column on the RT website dated February 16, 2017 (archived copy), Okhlobystin confirmed that Dubinsky actually bore the pseudonyms “Khmury” and “Petrovsky” and was a subordinate of Igor “Strelkov” Girkin in Slavyansk and Donetsk<...>

Since the publication of our article, other information has appeared about Sergei “Khmury” Dubinsky. February 18, 2017, in which he indicated that Dubinsky appeared at the congress of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, held on November 4, 2016 in Moscow<...>

During the first call Dubinsky talks with “Buryatik”, a separatist whose identity has never been established. "Buryatik" asks Dubinsky ("Khmury") where to load the Buk-M1 installation ("Buryatik" calls it "beauty", "Buk", "B" and "M"), which he brought from an unspecified place to Donetsk . Having asked where to unload and hide the Buk, which arrived on a trawl, “Buryatik” confirms to Dubinsky that the Buk arrived with a crew. Dubinsky answers “Buryatik” that the installation does not need to be unloaded and hidden, because it should go “there” now<...>

In the second phone call <...>Dubinsky is talking to Buryatik again. He asks if Buryatik brought one or two Buk missile launchers. “Buryatik” explains that during the transfer of the installations “there was some confusion”, since there was no second vehicle to transport the Buk. “They” unloaded the “Buk” from the trawl on which it was brought, after which the “Buk” crossed the “strip” (i.e., the border) under its own power, and then was loaded onto another trawl and taken to Donetsk. Then Dubinsky tells "Buryatik" that the "Buk" will go to its destination with the tanks of the "Vostok" battalion.<...>

During the third call <...>Dubinsky is talking with another interlocutor - “Sanych”. The SBU introduced him as a DPR fighter, Khmury’s deputy. In the conversation, Dubinsky informs Sanych that “my Buk-M will go with yours,” which is on the trawl. He asks “Sanych”, “...where to fit it in order to put it in the column?” Sanych says that the column is being formed “beyond the Motel ring”<...>

Dubinsky talks with another unidentified person, presented exclusively as a “DPR terrorist.” Dubinsky tells the interlocutor to call the person with the call sign “Librarian” and indicates that the interlocutor will find “you know what” behind the Motel ring. An unidentified person confirms that he knows what is meant by "you know what." Then Dubinsky orders him to take “... there only those who returned, as many as you need for escort. You leave the rest here.” Next Dubinsky says to go to the area settlement Pervomayskoye, which offers to find it on the map. After arriving in the Pervomaisky area, the unidentified fighter must take a position and bring there “the people you have left.” His task is to reserve and protect the Buk installation. Dubinsky ends the conversation by mentioning that a person with the call sign “Gyurza” will also arrive at the position.<...>

Fifth and final conversation took place at the end of the day on July 17, 2014 and took place between Dubinsky and “Botswain,” whom the SBU calls an officer of the Russian GRU. Dubinsky tells Bosun that he is “on Marinovka” and that he “is not doing very well.” He explains that they are constantly exposed to Grad fire, and also recently shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft. He mentions that his forces received a Buk-M this morning, which made things "feel better." Dubinsky adds that Ukrainian fighters are trying to retreat from Zelenopolye, but to do this they need to break through Dubinsky’s fighters. He also mentions that “yesterday” (July 16) they shot down two Su-25s, and today they shot down another one. At the end of the conversation, Dubinsky says that “in two hours” he is going to Donetsk, where three “Gvozdikas” are waiting for him. He is going to transport them “here,” that is, to the Marinovka area.

Excerpts from Bellingcat publication

Tiunov told the newspaper that in audio recordings distributed by the SBU discussing the transportation of the Buk, one of the voices “looks very much like Dubinsky.” “I admit that it is he,” said the publication’s interlocutor. Dubinsky himself, in a conversation with the newspaper, confirmed the fact of his acquaintance with Tiunov.

During the fighting in Donbass, the former colleagues met for the first time during a prisoner exchange in September 2014.

Tiunov and Dubinsky stepped aside to talk. “You see how life has turned out, Seryozha,” said “Khmury.” “In Afghanistan, you and I fought on the same side, and now we are fighting against each other. I just don’t understand why you are for the junta.”

“In response, I couldn’t restrain myself: but you shot down a passenger plane like a gangster!” recalls Tiunov. “I saw in his face how it hurt him, he took it very personally. He said: “You don’t think that I did it.” [himself]?" And then he pointed upward: “The freaks from Moscow did this!”

“Such a conversation was unpleasant for him, because he had to justify himself. After all, he is a military man, not a bandit,” continues Tiunov. “[It was obvious to me]: he understood that he was involved and partially guilty of the death civilians. So he quickly ended the conversation: they say, that’s it, leave, otherwise they’ll spot you and they’ll cover both you and me with mortars.”<...>

The next time the exchange took place in November 2014. Tiunov wanted to rescue the Donbass battalion volunteers from captivity. But by that time the “DPR” did not want to release the captured volunteers under any conditions. According to the agreement for the five Donbass fighters, Tiunov undertook to bring two DPR fighters to Khmuroy. During the exchange between Tiunov and Dubinsky, the conversation about the Malaysian Boeing again arose.

“He then told me dryly: “Seryozha, we in the DPR have nothing to do with the crash. The Boeing was shot down by a Ukrainian pilot flying an SU, recalls Tiunov. “I immediately realized that by this time they had already developed a legend. Because [“Khmury”] no longer expressed any resentment or emotion... We haven’t seen each other since then.”<...>

“He fought [in Donbass] as a soldier. Yes, probably on the [criminal] command of his leadership. But I am 100% sure: if he knew that it was [flying] a civilian plane and if he had the power to launch a missile , he would never go to the destruction of civilians. Moreover, I heard from him personally: “The Moscow *** did it!”... And the fact that now they are making him the biggest culprit, I will never agree with this.<...>He's a key witness, but not a killer. And he is also my colleague. I want him to stay alive. I believe that he did not press the button on this Buk, he only coordinated the movement."