May 1st, 2014 , 10:06 am
On Saturday, April 26, Ukrainian army troops attacked the Donetsk checkpoint people's republic near the city of Soledar (Donetsk region). RIA Novosti reported this.
An important point for understanding the situation: the checkpoint covers the road from the Kharkov-Rostov highway to the Volodarsky salt mine (10 km from Soledar, 40 km from Slavyansk). Since Soviet times, this mine has been turned into one of the largest military warehouses, where weapons stocks from the First and Second World Wars are stored. The militia set up a checkpoint to prevent National Guard militants from reaching the warehouses.
The battle near Soledar turned out to be short. Miners from surrounding mines began to flock to the checkpoint, armed with shovels, crowbars and pipes. Seeing the miners, the paratroopers chose to dive back into the helicopter and fly away, firing a few shots into the air for good measure.
Let us remind you: after the wars of the first half of the twentieth century in the territory Soviet Union There are a huge number of weapons left. At the same time, the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle was adopted for service, and the need for the previous arsenals disappeared. Some of the obsolete small arms were melted down, others were given to developing countries, but a fair amount was mothballed just in case.
According to experts, from 1 to 3 million weapons are stored in the Soledar salt mine - Mosin “three-line guns”, PPSh-41 and PPS-43 submachine guns, German MP-38/40 submachine guns, Thomson model submachine guns 1928, Fedorov assault rifles, Kar98k Mausers, American Gapand M1, Mauser and Colt pistols, Degtyarev machine guns of the 1928 model, German MG-34, MG-42, and even the famous Maxim and Lewis machine guns. Plus, there are a couple of million canned cartridges for each type of weapon.
All "trunks" are in very good technical condition- in lubrication, even now take it and shoot. Salt mines are unique in that they maintain a constant temperature regime and humidity level, so the conditions for storing weapons there are ideal.
Now Soledar's warehouses are guarded by a small detachment of Ukrainian army personnel. In turn, the Ukrainian garrison is blocked by the self-defense forces of the Donetsk Republic.
What is behind the battle near Soledar, are military warehouses of strategic interest?
If weapons spread across the territory of a state, this is always dangerous,” notes Viktor Litovkin, head of the editorial office of military information at ITAR-TASS. - It can be used for blackmail and for sabotage.
Despite their age, the weapons in the warehouse in Soledar are quite functional. If, of course, it was stored all these years as it should be. By the way, the Mosin rifle is the best sniper weapon today. Do you know why? Modern sniper rifles are usually automatic, and this negatively affects shooting accuracy. But the “three-line” is reloaded manually - like rifles in modern biathlon (there, too, automatic weapons are not used). If you put a modern one on a Mosin rifle optical sight- you will get a great sniper weapon.
“SP”: - Are the PPSh-41 and PPS-43 assault rifles also effective weapons?
This good weapon, but only by the standards of the Second World War. Compared to modern models, these are very inaccurate machines.
“SP”: - What about the “Maxim” and “Lewis” machine guns?
Also a good weapon - for yesterday's wars.
“SP”: - Are the warehouses in Soledar primarily of interest to the National Guard or to the militia of the Donetsk Republic?
They are interesting to both. When you don’t have real modern weapons in your hands, then outdated weapons that can still hit the enemy are never superfluous.
In fact, Soledar’s arsenals are good for Gulyai-Polye - in in a broad sense words. Against regular modern armies such weapons are ineffective, but in order to make the population dependent, or to arm self-defense units, they are quite good.
“SP”: - The mine is guarded by a Ukrainian garrison. Is it possible to protect such a warehouse with small forces?
It all depends on what security and defense systems the warehouse is equipped with. Sometimes even with small forces you can effectively keep such objects under control - remember the story about the 300 Spartans who blocked the gorge and held the 40 thousand army of the Persian king Xerxes? A military warehouse is a complex engineering structure, and when designing it, of course, defense issues are well thought out...
“I’m not sure of the significant value of the weapons in the warehouse in Soledar,” says Anatoly Khramchikhin, deputy director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis. “I think the landing party was going to strengthen the Ukrainian garrison guarding the arsenal so that weapons from the warehouse would not fall into the hands of self-defense fighters of the South-East.
The fact is that the Ukrainian army itself has enough more modern weapons - gigantic weapons depots have remained in Ukraine since Soviet times. If desired, the National Guard can also be armed with these weapons. But the self-defense forces of the Donetsk People's Republic are interested in the arsenal in Soledar.
I must say that the warehouse in Soledar is the only arsenal of weapons from the First and Second World Wars known to me in the CIS. Indeed, the conditions for storing weapons in a salt mine are ideal. But all the same, it is very old, although it can still work...
15 years ago in Russian army a total inspection of weapons in storage took place: in particular, all boxes with machine guns were opened,” says Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Center for Military Forecasting at the Institute of Political and Military Analysis. - You won’t believe it: the machine guns from World War II were like new. In 1946-1947 they were preserved - covered with grease. Their wooden butts rotted, but the metal remained untouched by time. I think the situation with weapons in Soledar is the same.
“SP”: - It turns out that you can shoot from it without problems?
This weapon is reliable by World War II standards. If you hit the table with the butt of a PPSh machine gun, holding the weapon vertically, the machine gun will most likely fire. This is a design feature. But otherwise, the weapon is quite reliable.
Now Kyiv seriously fears that the arsenal in Soledar will end up in the hands of the Donetsk People's Republic. Given the low combat readiness of the Ukrainian army, this could be fatal for Kyiv.
There is also an important point: practice shows that it is undesirable to use the army to perform police functions against its own population - such an army becomes demoralized and subsequently fights poorly. In my opinion, by throwing the army into the South-East, Kyiv made a strategic mistake. If it comes to the capture of the arsenal in Soledar by the South-East, Ukrainian army, which decomposed during the police operation, is unlikely to be able to resist the militias...
South-East of Ukraine: balance of forces(By materials"Komsomolskaya Pravda")
Group of Ukrainian troops
Number of people: more than 15 thousand people;
Armament: 160 tanks, more than 230 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, more than 150 guns and mortars, aviation.
Self-defense units
Number of people: 2.5 thousand people;
Weapons: about 200 automatic weapons (mostly captured from regional police departments and security services), several dozen smooth-bore weapons hunting weapons, 6 infantry fighting vehicles (taken from Ukrainian paratroopers in Kramatorsk).
The country's main defense department says that today Russian weapons depots are literally overflowing with machine guns, sniper rifles and pistols that were produced more than 30 years ago. According to some data, the number of small arms in military arsenals at the beginning of 2012 was about 16 million guns, of which about 35-40% had expired. By the end of 2015, Anatoly Serdyukov’s department plans to dispose of about 4 million weapons.
This was received ambiguously in Russia. Some people are confident that maintaining and increasing the number of small arms in the country is a matter of national security, and therefore no disposal mechanisms in relation to the military arsenal are simply appropriate. Others say that the disposal of old small arms that expired a decade ago is long overdue.
There is a rather remarkable expert opinion, which boils down to the fact that reducing the number of military small arms by 4 million is too small a figure. It is necessary to carry out a larger reduction, leaving no more than 3-4 million units in the reserve arsenal.
All sides have their reasons. Representatives of the first side are confident that the Ministry of Defense is involved in a dubious project that could affect the army’s ability to solve a whole range of problems. The arguments in this case look something like this: weapon was created for the benefit of the Fatherland, and therefore its mass disposal is a blow to the security of the Russian army, which may be faced with the need to participate in a large-scale conflict.
The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper directly states that the large-scale disposal of small arms launched by the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation This is not similar to an episode from more than 100 years ago, when Minister of War Sukhomlinov signed an order in which he authorized the disposal of about 400 thousand rifles of the Berdan No. 2 system. Adjutant General Sukhomlinov said in 1910 that these weapons only clutter up warehouses, and therefore they need to either be sold or disposed of. However, after the outbreak of the First World War, problems appeared with the armament of the Russian army, which indicated the “flaw” of V.A. Sukhomlinov. Soon the head of the military ministry of imperial Russia was arrested and convicted of treason. Apparently, “MK” makes it clear that the disposal of small arms of the present times can lead to the same consequences as the disposal after the order of V.A. Sukhomlinov in the second decade of the 20th century.
Supporters of plans for the disposal of small arms, announced by Anatoly Serdyukov, are not inclined to dramatize. In their opinion, it is simply incorrect to compare the situation in 1910 and 2012, especially since we are talking about the disposal of small arms that have exhausted their service life. According to these people, if the industry does not work to actually support the army, but to stock exclusively warehouses, and without replacing old types of weapons with new ones, then there is no need to talk about modernizing the army.
Both positions are worthy of respect. Indeed, the permanent storage of old weapons does not fit into modernization plans. However, before mass disposal of anything, it is necessary to conduct an analysis of the production industry. If our enterprises are ready to fulfill all the points of the State Defense Order in terms of creating ultra-modern small arms that can become competitive, including on the world market, then the disposal of old weapons does not look scary. But it often happens that we first carry out total destruction, and then conversations and reflections begin on the fact that the idea was not reasonable and, therefore, began to be implemented in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Well, who will be accused of treason there, and whether such a person will be found in the event of unpleasant events, this is already a big question...
In this regard, so that no double judgments arise on the announced matter, the Ministry of Defense must provide a guarantee that all activities carried out do not go beyond the modernization framework and do not affect the country’s defense capability. And in this case there is only one guarantee - long-term contracts for the production of new high-precision, effective and reliable weapons, which must certainly be implemented.
By the way, at a time when 16 million guns are virtually abandoned on army warehouses, in modern schools, in life safety (BZ) lessons, it is generally prohibited to conduct lessons devoted to the study of training weapons... And if just recently a school graduate could take credit for the fact that elementary lessons military training taught him the basics of handling small arms, today many high school students have seen a Kalashnikov assault rifle, perhaps, depicted in numerous computer games...
Technolirik writes:
My post today is dedicated to an object that, despite the close work of metalworkers, is of great historical interest and was top secret until the 1990s; only 12 people from the top Polish leadership knew about the Soviet nuclear weapons storage facilities located in Poland, and the Soviet Union itself until of his death, he denied the fact that his nuclear bombs were located in Poland, although for NATO intelligence this was known fact back in the 1970s. In this post I will show in detail what remains of the once impregnable military base, including the heart of the base - two underground bunker, which contained atomic bombs capable of wiping Europe off the face of the earth. The post turned out to be voluminous and very interesting, so take some time and sit back.
The object we are looking for is located in the forest on the forestry territory. The fact that the forest in these places is not easy is evidenced by the Soviet concrete road extending from the highway - a clear sign that something interesting is hidden in the thicket. It will lead us to our goal.
Soon the concrete road ends next to a large platform of concrete slabs.
If you look closely at the uneven terrain, you can see among the trees and bushes man-made objects that are clearly for military purposes.
Also, the forest for hundreds of meters around is dotted with evidence of the military past of these places.
The remains of the perimeter, which was triple here.
Also not far from the bunkers there are pits like these, in the place of which military unit structures recently stood.
Now it is no longer possible to determine what kind of buildings were located here.
The military unit was in the reserve of the Polish army until 2000, then the guard was removed, and in 2009, the 300 hectares of territory occupied by the unit were completely cleared of all structures and concrete buildings.
Not even the foundations of the buildings remained, so thoroughly did the Poles clear the territory before handing it over to the forestry department. Only numerous trenches, coils of barbed wire and a couple of bunkers - that’s all that reminds us of the once highly protected military unit.
In addition to the perimeter, numerous firing points and a concrete fence, a trench surrounded the perimeter of the object. Of all the above, it is the only one that has survived to this day.
In some places you can still find concrete bridges across the trench for the passage of equipment.
In addition to two underground storage facilities for atomic weapons, there was another Granit type bunker. Actually, we came here for it, but after combing dozens of hectares of forest, we did not find the slightest sign of granite, which looked like this:
Only when preparing this post did I learn from Polish Internet sources that “Granit” was dismantled along with the rest of the area in 2009. “Granite” was built in 1975 from concrete tubes sprinkled with earth on top. On both sides, the entrance to the vault was closed by massive armored doors. The diameter of the granite was 6 meters, length 30 meters. Tactical equipment was stored inside nuclear weapon - artillery shells with nuclear warheads of 152 and 203 mm caliber. Each of the three Soviet nuclear storage facilities in Poland was equipped with a Granite bunker in the mid-1970s.
Today, only two underground nuclear storage facilities have survived from the former facility, and this post is dedicated to a review of them.
But I’ll start with the history of the emergence of Soviet nuclear bases on Polish territory, which dates back to the mid-1960s.
In 2007, the Polish Minister of Defense declassified Warsaw Pact documents, among which a folder was discovered containing materials related to Operation Vistula. These materials contained evidence that 180 Soviet nuclear warheads were located on the territory of the PRN, of which 14 had a yield of 500 kilotons of TNT (the bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 15 kilotons). In the event of a military conflict with the NATO bloc, nuclear weapons were subject to transfer to special missile and aviation units Polish troops, who were supposed to strike with them the states that are members of the NATO bloc. These 180 nuclear warheads were stored in three storage facilities specially built for this purpose, one of which we will look at today.
The portals to the vaults are covered with soil, but each of them has a hole through which you can easily get inside.
The construction of nuclear weapons storage facilities was preceded by exercises conducted by the Soviet Union in 1965 to transport nuclear weapons to western Poland during military operations. All options were tried - by water, land and air, and they all ended in failure. The road took too long and the risk of the enemy's destruction of the transport was too high. After these exercises, it became obvious that atomic weapons must be located in Poland near airfields and missile units in order to be ready for use in the shortest possible time. After this, it was decided to build storage facilities for Soviet nuclear weapons on the territory of five countries of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) - in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary.
In February 1967, a meeting was held in Moscow between Polish Defense Minister Marian Spychalski and USSR Defense Minister Marshal Andrei Grechko, which resulted in the signing of an agreement on the construction of three arsenals for storing nuclear weapons on Polish territory. This document was top secret - in Poland, only 12 senior military officials, whose names are stored in a folder with declassified documentation, were allowed to know this secret, and the operation itself to place nuclear warheads on the western border of the empire received the code name "Vistula".
According to the ATS strategy and declassified documents, the Eastern Bloc planned to be the first to launch a nuclear strike against NATO states in the event of a military conflict. According to the calculations of Kremlin strategists, the NATO counterattack was supposed to destroy up to 53% of the troops of the USSR and its allies. The western border of the empire in the Third World War was given the honorable role of taking the first blow and turning into “radioactive ash.” For more than two decades, the People's Republic of Poland has maintained that it does not have nuclear weapons on its territory and, in international forums, has actively sought the elimination of American military bases with nuclear weapons in Western Germany.
It can be seen that the bunkers are often visited by diggers - they even built some kind of steps on the embankment covering the entrance.
Based on the signed agreement, three nuclear storage facilities were built near the western border of Poland in the strictest secrecy in 1967-1970, each of which was located next to military training grounds so as not to attract undue attention from the population. Each of the objects received its own code name: 3001 was located near the Podborsko aviation training ground, 3002 near the Brzeźnica-Kolonia training ground and 3003 Templewo near the Wędrzyn training ground. At the same time, similar facilities are being built on the territory of other ATS countries - the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria, with which top-secret agreements were also signed.
The "3000 series" warehouses were built according to Soviet designs, but construction works performed by Polish engineering troops, who were informed that they were building secret communications bunkers. The equipment inside the vaults was brought from the Soviet Union. The financial costs for the construction of storage facilities, amounting to 180 million zlotys at the 1970 exchange rate, were borne by Poland. After completion of the work in January 1970, the finished facilities were handed over to the Soviet army and soon housed the Soviet nuclear arsenal, which remained there for twenty years. Each of these warehouses was designed to store 60 nuclear warheads and was maintained exclusively by Soviet personnel. From 1970 to 1990, no Pole set foot on any of these objects.
Each of the two storage bunkers has a similar passage through which you can easily get inside.
The territory of base 3003 Templewo covers an area of about 300 hectares and on its territory, in addition to storage facilities, there were also barracks for housing service personnel and security, fuel storage facilities, garages for transport and armored vehicles, as well as leisure facilities for military personnel (sauna, cinema, etc.). Although military materials officially refer to the base as Object 3003 Templewo, the Russians called it "Wolfhound". The facility's garrison consisted of 60 officers and 120 special forces soldiers. All this was protected from the outside world by a triple perimeter of energized barbed wire, between the rows of which motion sensors were installed, as well as paths for sentries with dogs who regularly walked around the perimeter. Inside the base, numerous fortifications were built, such as concrete pillboxes with machine guns, rifle trenches and anti-landing obstacles. In addition, the inside of the base was divided into three sectors by a concrete fence with barbed wire on top, around each of the three storage facilities, including Granit. Inside the base, in case of a possible enemy invasion, there were 12 BMP-1 armored vehicles. All premises of the facility, as well as the roads, were covered with camouflage nets, and coniferous trees were planted on the roof of the bunkers. Thus, it was impossible to detect the location of the object from the air or from a satellite.
In 2009, as part of the transfer of the base territory to the forestry department, all buildings, except the storage facilities themselves, were completely dismantled and not the slightest trace remained of them. You can see what individual elements of the database looked like in 2005 by following the link.
The second storage bunker is completely identical to the first and is also covered with soil, in which a hole has been dug.
Both underground warehouses are located at a distance of 300 meters from each other so that their longitudinal axes are perpendicular. This was done to increase protection from the shock wave in the event of a nearby nuclear explosion. Thanks to this location, no matter from which direction the shock wave came, one bunker would have survived a nuclear strike in any case, if it had not hit directly on the territory of the unit. Containers with warheads were delivered to the warehouse by trucks, and ramps built in front of the warehouses were used to load/unload cargo into the warehouse. Containers were moved manually on trolleys. Considering that the largest warheads weighed more than 500 kg, considerable effort was required to transport them.
If you drive along the P35 Highway from Simferopol to Sudak, approximately before reaching 10 km to the last, an inconspicuous branch departs from the highway,very time-worn,asphalt path.She leads to no time classified military city - Krasnokamenka, located in the Kiziltash gorge,away from other points. Here, in Soviet time, under conditions of the strictest secrecy, atomic warheads were assembled in underground workshops built deep in the mountain and then transported to launch sites throughout the central part of the USSR and some Warsaw Pact countries. For almost half a century this placewas overgrown with numerous myths and legends, butAfter the formation of Ukraine as a separate state, and then the adoption of “Nuclear-free status” on its territory, the city wasdeclassified, and all warheads were taken to Russia. Currentlyand an elite regiment is located on the territory of the city special purpose"Tiger" of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.The main part of the adits has been converted into ammunition storage and is under heavy security.
As is known, the United States, having adopted the atomic program in 1941, implemented the results of the work carried out on it in August 1945 with the destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The world has clearly seen the threat of using terrible nuclear force. Naturally, the leadership of the USSR posed a national problem to scientists - to create their own atomic weapons in the shortest possible time and ensure the country’s protection from the use of such weapons by a potential enemy. To solve this problem, the state provided scientists with everything they needed, creating not only research centers, but also industrial enterprises equipped with the most advanced equipment and technology. Just 4 years later, in August 1949, the first Soviet atomic bomb was tested, andat the end of 1950, the Council of Ministers of the USSR decided to create the so-called central storage bases for nuclear weapons (CBH), which were supposed to assemble and store produced ammunition.It was decided to build one of these pulp and paper farms in the Kiziltash valley, where mountain spurs hid it well from prying eyes.
Object 51
The scale of the work was amazing. By 1955, almost to the very foot of the mountain, a tunnel was made in its thickness, not inferior in width and height to the subway tunnel. Its length is more than two kilometers.
An assembly hall and several storage facilities for the products themselves and their components were built under the top of the mountain. The height of the hall was about twenty meters, and the length was several tens of meters. The hall was equipped with an electric overhead crane, several lifting hoists and special assembly places for securing assembled products with the possibility of their rotation in a vertical plane. The entire underground complex of structures had power supply from the outside and autonomous power supply from emergency diesel generators inside.
All premises of the facility are connected by a developed transport network, which made it possible to move cargo on special trolleys along a narrow-gauge railway. The portals to the facility are closed with hermetically sealed shutters weighing several tens of tons, which are rolled into a niche using an electric drive.
How do you like the door? :)
Because of its specificity, the object was popularly nicknamed the “Feodosia Metro.” Construction was supervised by the Leningrad Metrostroy Division, and the excavation work was carried out by specially selected prisoners with experience in mining work. Many of them, after serving their sentences, were offered to remain as civilian workers to service the facility.
Assembled nuclear items were transported from here to launch positions in the central part of the USSR and some Warsaw Pact countries. Later, obsolete first-generation warheads began to be delivered to Krasnokamenka for disposal and recycling.
Objects of this kind were actively built right up to the peak Cold War in the late 80s, however, perestroika broke out, during which Ukraine became an independent state, and also adopted a nuclear-free status and the entire nuclear arsenal was distributed among the Central Banks on Russian territory. Empty adits were handed over to Ukrainian troops and converted into other needed ones, or completely abandoned. The base in Krasnokamenka is one of the first.
Now based on the territory of the former base Special purpose regiment "Tiger" of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The elite unit is designed to protect public order.
The main adit under the mountain(object No. 51) , currently used for ammunition storage. However, in addition to it, there were 3 more storage facilities for finished products (No. 712 a, b and c), representing They are small horseshoe-shaped adits with two halls. The first was intended directly for storing warheads, and the second housed the air conditioning system of the first. After all nuclear weapons were removed from Ukraine, the first two storage facilities were abandoned, and the third redone to the "burial ground" for phonation equipment and tools , used when working with nuclear warheads.
Object 712 A. One of the portals.
The first storage facility was the worst preserved. Almost all the metal was taken by looters, and the walls and vaults are covered with soot.
All that remains of the ventilation system.
Hall air conditioning system. On the left is a 10-meter collector leading to the product storage room.
There was a turning area here.
Object 712 B.
This storage facility survived a little better, since it was apparently not abandoned right away. The photo shows a brick wall near one of the portals. Most likely, it was erected after the storage facility was no longer used for its intended purpose. It is quite possible that the adit was used as a household warehouse, however, it did not last long.
Paint has been preserved on some walls and pressure walls.
The torn floor is also the work of looters to remove the rails.
All premises of the facility were lined with metal insulation, which was attached to iron arches.
Somehow we got very carried away with photography; it was already mid-morning outside :)
Watchtower.
Kiziltash Gorge is a piece of paradise. People who lived here during Soviet times speak very positively about this place and the service itself, even despite high level responsibility. If you are interested in this topic, I advise you to read the memoirs of a city resident. The story is very heartwarming and educational.
After spending 2 days in the gorge, we continued to conquer Crimea further. Krasnokamenka is connected to civilization by only one bus to Feodosia, passing several times a day.
Since we didn’t plan to go to Feodosia, we had to get off as soon as the bus pulled onto the highway.
This was the longest hitchhiking of the entire trip. After spending four whole hours under the sultry sun, I finally deigned to stop the minibus in the direction of Sudak.
In Sudak we had to climb the most high point Genoese fortress, but also a surprise awaited us in the form of a trance music festival taking place not far from the city. More on this in the next review. There are many other interesting places ahead of us! To be continued...
All gunpowder workers were given an urgent order to laugh at the statement of Russian lawyers in the Hague court that “the militia found weapons in the mines.” Ah-ah-ah, I'm laughing all over.
The gunpowder robots, drooling when they looked at the “Roshen” confection shown to them, rushed together to perform. Stories on television, articles, cartoons, posts on Twitter and social networks - in general, a complete propaganda set.
There’s just one thing I didn’t understand: what’s so funny, saucepans?
Did no one really tell you, wretches, about, for example, underground weapons depots Soledar, located precisely in the salt mines?
Well, yes, a tank will never enter such a mine. She's small, bgg
These mines store millions of conserved weapons, starting with Maxim and PPSh machine guns (which, by the way, I also saw among the militias at the beginning of the conflict) and ending with AK-47.
In addition to Soledar, there are similar underground warehouses, for example, in Artyomovsk, from where, in particular, the militia initially exported shots for the Grads.
And the list of underground warehouses does not end there.
Underground warehouse in Artyomovsk
There are also State Reserve storage facilities created in Soviet times. My dad, who served in Soviet army, talked about many kilometers of underground storage facilities into which trucks were loaded with everything from weapons, chocolate and stewed meat to frozen cow carcasses.
They were created to overcome possible crises. And is it surprising that when the crisis came, they were reactivated?
Are you still laughing “weapons in the mines, hahaha”, Maidan fools?
In addition, weapons were taken from warehouses military units Armed Forces of Ukraine located on the territory of the DPR and LPR. The garrisons were disarmed, and the contents of the gunsmiths and garages went to the militia.
Plus huge army warehouses near Lugansk. At the beginning of May 2014, all the contents were removed from there (now we can already tell), and then the empty warehouses, by agreement with the local officers, were blown up (to comply with formalities, such as they did not give weapons to the “separatists”). Ask the headquarters of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense what was stored in these warehouses if you don’t believe me.
Plus a cartridge factory in Lugansk. The same one that, according to junto media reports, was repeatedly “cut up and taken to Russia.” Continues to regularly produce cartridges and shells.
Still funny, deceived fools?
The fourth source of replenishment of the militia with weapons and equipment is Voentorg. But not the mystical Russian one, but the real Ukrainian one. The same one that Bezler was talking about. When you could buy an armored personnel carrier from warrant officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for 5 thousand dollars, and a tank for 10 thousand (wholesale discounts).
Then your fagot idols, Avakov and Turchinov, launched a whole cap competition to see which of them, through their structures, would sell more weapons and equipment to the militia. I'm still not sure which of them won. Keep jumping.
Well, the fifth source of equipment is boilers. The “Lostarmor” portal recorded (with photos and videos) 421 units of captured equipment that went to the militia from the boilers. Laugh, you fools, why aren't you laughing anymore?
As a result, only Colonel of the Information Operations Troops A. Rogers laughs - the stupid gunpowder robots were again given a broken manual.