Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Recriminations are reportedly taking place within Russia's special forces over the deaths in an ambush on 28 July of six elite soldiers, who were part of a sabotage and reconnaissance group infiltrating into Ukraine. ⬇️

https://x.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1819078619978723632

2/ The six men were members of the 322nd Special Operations Centre ("Senezh"). Their unit has been active in many of Russia's conflicts in recent years, in the Caucasus, the Middle East, Africa, Crimea and the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2022.

3/ The men have been named by the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel as:

- Guard Major Alexander Vasiliev
- Guard Major Andrei Ivanovich Pospelov
- Guard Major Mikhail Aleksandrovich Asanov
- Guard Captain Vyacheslav Andreevich Larionov
- Guard Captain Viktor Yuryevich Soldatkin

4/ - Guard Senior Lieutenant Valery Aleksandrovich Golovchenko

The channel blames their deaths on their commander, Deputy Chief of the Center, Colonel Dmitry Pavlovich Miroshnikov (known by the call sign “Master”). According to VChK-OGPU, he has been trying to shift the blame.

5/ The channel reports that Miroshnikov is seeking to implicate the head of the 1st Directorate (special operations) of the 322nd Centre, Guard Colonel Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dudin, who it suggests was in immediate command of the operation.

6/ However, it says, "Miroshnikov is trying to hide from the top leadership the fact that the group commander, Guard Major Alexander Vasiliev, reported that the group was detected by the enemy at the moment of crossing the border."

7/ The men were killed near the village of Mhky in the Chernihiv region, only about 3 km from the Russian border. This suggests that the Ukrainians had tracked them all the way from where they were first detected and had time to set a successful ambush.

8/ Valisiev reportedly questioned "the advisability of returning the entire group to its territory." However, VChK-OGPU says, "Miroshnikov himself recommended Dudin not to return the men and continue the mission if the latter still hoped to receive the Hero of Russia [medal]."

9/ "As a result, Miroshnikov's desire to report on the heroic achievements of his subordinates was crowned with the cowardice of taking responsibility for the death of six officers.

10/ "The only thing Guard Colonel Miroshnikov had the intelligence to do was to come up with a fairy tale for his superiors that the continuation of the mission was motivated by the plan to lure and destroy the American special forces that had appeared in the Chernihiv region."

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t.me/vchkogpu/49753