Since last year, a photo of a stand from the Russian military unit has been diverging along social networks. We checked whether such a stand really existed.

According to sources, in July 2022, a board of shame with portraits and names of the military personnel who refused to participate in the hostilities in Ukraine appeared on the territory of the 205th separate motorized rifle Cossack brigade in Budyonnovsk. A photograph of the board with the inscription “They refused to perform combat missions” was attached to the news, under which more than 300 names were listed.

Many information resources wrote about this, for the most part Ukrainian: OBOZREVATEL, "Per hour peak","UNIAN" Segodnya.ua, "Glavred","Censor.net","Anticorus" And "Rosinform". Relevant blogger tweet Rustema Adagamov dated July 11, 2022, at the time of writing, 466 accounts shared, and 275 users' opposition to the opposition Pavel Chuprunov - 275 Facebook. From Telegram channels that have spread the news, one can distinguish "Nightingale drop"(226,000 views),"We can explain"(120 000),"Dabble"(84,000),"The city of Zhupov"(84,000) and"Yoshkin Mole"(59,000).

Throughout the period of large -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, reports of the refusal of Russian military personnel to participate in the hostilities and even unauthorized shoots from the conflict zone were seized in the media. According to the conclusions of BBC journalists, studying The texts of more than 300 sentences under the article “On the unauthorized abandonment of the service place” from February 2022 to January 2023, the most common punishment for this violation is a conditional period of six months to five years. Especially often, news about returning to the place of constant deployment of the military unit came from North Caucasus.

The practice of shame boards with the names of malicious violators of a professional charter or public foundations, special interest, deserves special interest. originated Back in Soviet times and actively used along with Honor with boards. In the new history of Russia, this phenomenon is not commonly widely, but periodically found. So, the stand "Board of shame" can Meet In the sites of the service of employees of penitentiary institutions, and in 2020, the media dispersed news About how in one of the military units of the Sverdlovsk region the command decided to punish the conscripts using smartphones. The gadgets nailed to the board, indicating the name of its owner under each phone, and signed: "They violated the federal law."

Now directly about the 205th separate motorized rifle Cossack brigade. This compound was Founded In 1995, took part in two Chechen campaigns, and since 1997 Suspended In the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory. According to the volunteer project Informnapalm, fighters of the 205th brigade fought in the Donbass back in 2014, and the participation of the unit in the invasion of 2022 is confirmed as data Main intelligence department Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and information Russian Media. The emblem depicted in the upper left corner of the stand in the picture also belongs to her, according to the numerous open sources.

On the right side of the photograph, a building made of gray brick, white windows, a silver roof, a thick pipe above the ground are guessed. On the territory of the unit, judging by the pictures from InternetThere is a similar building.

The image itself does not contain obvious signs of photoshop. However, in the text that we see on the poster, there are two elements that cause doubt. These are the words “genocide” and “Donbass”, which are framed by quotes.

How It is known, in the official rhetoric of the Russian authorities, the events of 2014–2022, in which the civilian population of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions suffered, were called genocide without any quotes, while the Ukrainian side does not recognize such a wording. Also, it is from the part of Ukrainian officials that you can sometimes hear the phrase “the so -called Donbass” (for example, in interview chief of the main intelligence department Kirill Budanov), but on site The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is denoted without any quotes. All this, coupled with the fact that in the first hours (in the evening of July 10) the photograph actively spread Ukrainian channels, can make you suspect that it was in this country that it was fabricated. However, it is strange that the authors of the alleged fake, otherwise quite seriously approaching the case, creating a rather believable poster with a typical text for patriotic rhetoric, so ridiculously betrayed themselves with quotes around the words “genocide” and “Donbass”.

In addition, there is still data on the poster that can serve as a key to unraveling. We are talking about the complete names of the refuseniks, many of which can be recognized with an increase in the image. So in July 2022 at least two publications received at least.

Journalists The Moscow Times One of the Officer Officer was identified thanks to his page on VKontakte, and the authenticity of the photo of the editorial office was confirmed by a source in the military unit. “After the hype, the plate was removed, and the authorities flew for it. Most of those whose portraits hang there have already quit, ”the person who wished to remain unknown read.

Similarly, the site reporters received "Present". They spoke immediately with the four former military personnel of the 205th motorized rifle brigade, whose names are mentioned at the sensational stand. Some of them quit right before the start of the Russian invasion, someone-shortly after the start of hostilities, and someone-due to failure to provide a delay. In all cases, the situation does not contradict the words “refused to fulfill their military duty”, which we see on the board of shame. In an interview with “verified” in June 2023, the author of the mentioned article in “NV” confirmed all information from his year ago. At the same time, the military personnel themselves, according to him, did not find that it was logical, given the relatively early time of their dismissal.

Thus, today all the responding people who, due to the coincidence of the name were addressed by journalists on social networks, turned out to be not just employees of the 205th separate motorized rifle brigade, but dismissed or dismissed in connection with fighting in Ukraine. If someone had not been connected with the brigade decided to create such a fake board of shame, it would be extremely difficult for him to even just get a list of her soldiers (he is absent in open sources), and not only getting to the refuseniks. We also note that at least one, albeit anonymous, the source from the unit confirmed the presence of such a stand to reporters of an authoritative publication. All this suggests that, in all likelihood, the board of shame in Budyonnovsk stood in the photo.

Photo on the cover: social networks