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Meet Maxim Balabanov, who served for nearly 10 years, until 2017, in military unit 03126 in Leningrad Oblast – a SUPsO (psyops) unit of the Leningrad Military District. 
2/3 Special thanks to @MackjackMaier for quickly revealing Risch’s identity, and kudos to the Belgian nationalists of 'Nation,' who accidentally shared his unblurred photo. 
First of all, 'Rubicon' is not technically a military unit; it isn’t associated with any, has no publicly known registered entity, and its head’s name has never been disclosed.
2/5 Sources: t.me/war_home/4703, archive.is/RPOZa, archive.is/6j1gu
The pin marks where the modern apartment complex was hit in Petah Tikva last night. If the missiles had landed in the large red circle, it would have been a disaster. Around 50% of the buildings in such areas were built before the 1980s, with no protected rooms, thin walls, etc. 
2/6 The 'Flakturm', identical to the one we saw earlier (that the shorter and taller sections are swapped), was constructed in Bulatnikovo near Moscow 1.5 years ago, in September 2023. 55.557090, 37.664654 
2/3 Moskalik also took part in a visit by a Russian delegation to Damascus, where Putin’s special envoy Alexander Lavrentyev held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2018. 
But first things first: meet Dmitry Iordanidi, a former deputy head of the @OSCE mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina with deep experience in the Balkans, who was nominated by Moscow to lead the organization’s mission to Serbia. 
It's well known that both 'private' military companies where Savičić fought, 'Wagner' & ‘Redut,’ were overseen by GRU (GU GSH). Previous investigations found several GRU staffers there, but it was never revealed that Savičić is a GRU colonel himself
A photo of Praliev receiving his veteran ID was posted on VK on Dec. 12th. The event took place in Bashkortostan: . We found Praliev's empty VK acc., which lists the same YOB as in the U.S. court docs (1993), and one of his friends confirmed that it is him.archive.is/jYw10
The new biolabs are part of the 48th Central Scientific Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense. First, we found this image of the new facility on the website of the construction company responsible for the finishing works. archive.is/3t3pp
Not only were electronics produced by this company found in Russian guided aerial bombs in Ukraine, but some shipments were also made to the infamous FSB unit 34435, an employer of the 'poisoning squad' responsible for the 2020 poisoning of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny. 
2/2 More photos of the ATACMS missile parts from the Russian MoD, taken in Khalino (t.me/mod_russia/462…) and Lotarevka (t.me/mod_russia/462…), where the S-400 missile system was hit. 
2/2 The 'ИРЦУ' marking is used by the Central Research Institute of Automation and Hydraulics (TsNIIAG) and can also be found in the procurement records of the Votkinsk Plant, which assembles the 'Topol-M,' 'Yars,' and other Russian strategic missiles. star-pro.ru/proverka-kontr…
2/7 Yesterday, I added a few more crowdsourced 'Pantsirs' to my map of post-2022 air defense systems installed in Moscow and Moscow Oblast after the first Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian capital, and I noticed a 'ring' pattern in their placement.
Serbs fighting for Russia since 2014 (via 'Wagner' then) isn’t new, but we seem to be the first Western media journalists to interview one. Of course, we didn’t take his words (and photos he provided) at face value; we corroborated them with other sources, including OSINT.
