Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The recent arrest of Russian milblogger Yegor 'Thirteenth' Guzenko has been greeted with glee by other Russian milbloggers, who regard him as a loutish poser. He is accused of being a drugged-up crook who fakes reports and swindles his subscribers. ⬇️

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1842551999109410888

2/ Anastasia Kashevarova says that despite Guzenko's claims to have fought for the Oplot Brigade, "I contacted the commanders of "Oplot", who told me that Egor did not fight for a day, and was never their fighter, and took weapons for photos from real soldiers.

3/ "He himself appeared at the front with volunteers, he fell on the tail of humanitarian workers and delivered aid with them. And the callsign "Thirteenth" was assigned to him precisely in the list of volunteers, since he was number thirteen.

4/ "Fighters and humanitarian workers know "Thirteenth" by the callsign "Tourist." To the question "Why?", they answer: "How else? He comes to take some photos, and leaves in a couple of days.” ...

5/ As one of the participants in the Debaltseve operation said: 'Yegor came and asked for a captured machine gun to take a photo. The next day, he asked to go to Debaltseve. He brought back photos - I don’t have as many in my entire service as he did that day!

6/ It feels like he was the only one who took Debaltseve.' Among the fighters of that time, we found those who accompanied Tourist on a trip to Debaltseve “purely to look,” while no one saw or heard about his direct participation in the operation."

7/ Kashevarova says that Guzenko seems to have stayed at home in the summer of 2014 and the winter of 2015, when he claimed to have been fighting (and only then for brief periods along with other volunteers, who can't seem to be traced).

8/ She points out that during this period his social media shows "no combat photos, only staged ones, no wounds, no awards, no colleagues, but there are more than enough photos of Guzenko in a drug intoxication."

9/ He was also allegedly involved in a number of criminal incidents prompted by his own conduct. "In 2015, he was detained at the Russian border, as a grenade was found in his backpack. He did not try to carry it, the soldiers planted it on him for his behaviour.

10/ "But Yegor's father got him off the hook by arranging a fake certificate of concussion. Since he had never served anywhere, was not listed, and had not fought, civilians handled the matter.

11/ "In 2016, Yegor Guzenko was beaten up by his former comrades on Lenin Square. Well, they considered him a comrade, but he sold them all out. At the same time, he was charged with car theft.

12/ The story is that this fake fighter and fake volunteer handed over spent cartridges together with his accomplices on the territory of the Russian Federation, and they were accepted. His father had to intervene again.

13/ "Yegor sold out everyone and was only charged with car theft."

He also claimed to have been part of the Wagner Group, but Kashevarova says that not only was this not the case, but he sold information about Wagner for money, causing it harm.

14/ "He came with a musical group of Cossacks, took some photos, gained the trust of some Wagner fighters in Latakia, who, as friends, sent him various interesting videos for internal use. Yegor sold these videos to the media, in particular, Fontanka.

15/ "Because of these leaks, some Wagner fighters suffered, while he exposed the company to the world community by disclosing the fighters' data. He leaked information to our and foreign media about Wagner PMC for money."

16/ Before the war, Kashevarova says, Guzenko had a record of violence and involvement in low-level criminality. In 2018, he was employed to guard a brothel in St Petersburg, before getting into an argument with three men and shooting a gas pistol at them.

17/ In 2021, he was employed at a security guard at a quarry near Vyborg but came under suspicion after the site burned down when the guards' salaries were delayed. In the same year, he shot and seriously injured another man in the face in St Petersburg after getting drunk.

18/ Kashevarova says that Guzenko was placed under house arrest and given an electronic tag, as he "repeatedly violated the [probation] requirements and went out to buy alcohol and drugs."

19/ "As a result, in order not to be imprisoned for several episodes [of violations], he cut off the bracelet and ran away to the Special Military Operation that had just begun.

He joined one [unit] after another. He was not listed anywhere and did not fight.

20/ "And he began to promote his blog. The number of subscribers grew, he began to collect money for humanitarian aid. Yegor collected money on a Sberbank card ending in 3154, and immediately transferred it to his second Sberbank card ending in 2414.

21/ "Then, from this card, he made the transfers he needed, etc. Guzenko has no income, apart from the collections. He is not listed anywhere. He is not on contract and does not intend to, although he could have gone to the same Storm Z long ago.

22/ "All his expenses were paid by his subscribers, without knowing it. Receiving millions a month, and sharing for protection and non-delivery, Yegor began to live well.

23/ "He felt the love of the people, said and did what the people expected and decided that he was allowed to do everything. He drank and used drugs in his dugout. He bought alcohol and drugs with the money he collected.

24/ "Anyone who wants can personally see his groups for buying "lyrica" ​​and mephedrone through telegram groups. This is evidenced by statements and reports from his phone and from a second card.

25/ "Also, the money collected from people gave Yegor Guzenko the opportunity to forge documents in order to cross the border without hindrance. In 2023, he crossed the border under the documents of [the alias] Pesotsky.

26/ "And there is also correspondence with his ex-wife, where Yegor claims that he will have new documents under a different name."

27/ Kashevarova backs up her claims with a dossier of documents which have clearly been collected over some time. It seems likely that other milbloggers, if not the Russian authorities themselves, have been looking to take him down for a while.

28/ The author of the 'Fighterbomber' Telegraph channel writes:

"I never cease to be amazed by this idiot "Thirteenth".

The dude knew that he was wanted for several years. All these years he hid in some bunkers with blackjack and hookers from justice and investigative bodies."

29/ "In the end, he went to s̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶i̶c̶e̶ to his apartment in the hope that if anything happens, they will "whitewash" him [in the circles] where he was accepted.

28/ "Some anonymous people came to the rescue with words of anonymous support on their anonymous pages and that's all [he has] for now." /end

Sources:
🔹 t.me/akashevarova/7…
🔹 t.me/akashevarova/7…
🔹 t.me/akashevarova/7…
🔹 t.me/fighter_bomber…