Vesselina Cherdantseva, call sign "Vasya" - sniper, commander of a special unit of a sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Donbass. I was lucky enough to interview her yesterday at the St. Petersburg Museum of Novorossiya.

She came to the war as a volunteer the summer before last, in May 2014. She is 27 years old, originally from Siberia:
–Where you're from?

“I was born in Siberia, on Baikal. But her parents: her mother is a Petersburger, and her father is a military man, and it so happened that he took her and took her to Siberia. I myself am a Cossack. Donskaya by father.

I arrived in St. Petersburg yesterday. Take a break, take a breath after the busy months in the Donbass:

« ... When you feel that moral overflow, as now, you need to rest. I hope that this trip to St. Petersburg will help me relax, as my nerves are strained.
I already feel that it’s hard, although again I arrived, and left my guys, kids there, and I don’t know how. And this is constantly throwing. It used to be good, in January I came to St. Petersburg with all the fighters. And it seems to be in his hometown, and the fighters are nearby, and friends are right there».

– Is your group subordinate to the DNR, LNR?

No, she doesn't obey anyone.…

– Does it work on its own?

Yes, we travel separately when they ask us for help with a specific task.

– If it's not a secret, what is included in combat missions? Yours and your division.

Well, actually, accomplishing any given task. Either steal someone, or eliminate someone, or eliminate something. Diversion, reconnaissance..

– That is, the entire segment of sabotage work?

Well, yes, my guys work with all types of weapons. That is, we do not have a separate machine gunner or sniper, everything is both a machine gunner and a sniper. We can do any task.

–How did it happen that you went to participate in this war? For what reasons and how did it happen?

For ideological reasons. I was brought up in the spirit of patriotism, in love for my country and my land. And there they offend people, kill women and children. So I decided to make some contribution. I couldn't sit still and watch the news. Well, at the same time see with your own eyes: they lie, the news does not lie. See everything for yourself.

– And how: lie, do not lie?

Partly. Some are shown, some are not. I'll tell you this: they lie not that they want to change something; they don't want to show the population certain cruel things that are going on there. That is, they are not even lying, but even softening.

– Even soften?

Yes Yes.

– How did your family, friends and relatives react to your decision?

Well, here are the parents, they .. Yes, no one was surprised at all. When I called my mother and said that I was going to Slavyansk, she was not surprised. And the father said: “I thought that you were going to do this for a long time.” That is, he already knew that sooner or later I would go there.

– Was it difficult to get there, how did it happen? How did you find people who also defended this position?

Well, this is how I remember, I hysterically wrote on the Internet whether women were taken into the militia ... I could not find any way out. Not like now. No phone numbers, nothing. Or get up and go randomly. But it so happened that I realized that, sitting in St. Petersburg, I could not decide anything, I had to somehow move closer.

And I first came to Moscow. I stayed there for a week and just happened to meet a man on the street who told me how to go. And, moreover, he said that “because you need help, come tomorrow at 7 in the morning there and there. With things."
I come... They put me in a car and took me to the Lugansk People's Republic. And I was driving like that and thought “ooooo easier”! .. I didn’t expect it.
He said that he would give unloading, I look, and there are 13 people with me. And they took us there.

– Was there any initial combat training in place?

It was... But it's still in the process of fighting. They bombed constantly. You train a day and a week in combat.
There was preparation, but ... more moral preparation is needed, which at that time was not there, and at first it was all scary, and I was very worried. Now, of course, it's easier.

– How many business trips did you have to Donbass?

I didn't even count. Periodically, I stop by for a month and a half, and sometimes for 2 days. Well, 13 business trips for sure. The longest business trip I had was 2 months. Then the injury. After I stopped by - I was a month and a half. Then I left and stopped by for 2-3 days, completed the task and back. – What is the current situation in Donbas, what is happening there now?

Now, of course, calmer. But it depends… on the place. If artillery worked somewhere, then it still works there. Most of it now is a battle of reconnaissance groups. They do it quietly, stir up and the like. I now know that those Ukrainians who are next to us: they shoot, but reluctantly. And those who are away from the combat zone: they train, walk, have fun. And many do not particularly worry that the war is on, they are completely relaxed.
– That is, we can say that the conflict is now frozen?

Not really, it's just that someone got tired of it, and it became calmer. On the contrary: it's all to exhale before the heavy one. That is the calm before the storm.

– That is a new bu…

Yes, there will be a new wave. Everyone thinks it will be here by winter. Like last year, when December-January was hot.

– What is missing now in the Donbas civilians, the militia? What are the most important issues?

The militia of winter uniforms, maskhalats, and everything in this vein. Even my own berets are all tattered already. Here in this regard.

And for peaceful people food, work, money. But now it's better, much has been established. Already people are slowly returning home (refugees).

– Now for the questions. What is your hobby? How do you relax, rest?

Well, I still go to training, train at home, read books on ballistics and military topics. And from the “mirnyak” I write and draw poetry.
I can meet with friends, sit in a bar, take a walk. I try not to stay alone, I start loading myself alone. To be distracted, the psyche is not iron. And when you feel that moral overflow, as now, you need to rest. I hope that this trip to St. Petersburg will help me relax, as my nerves are strained.

– Where do you see yourself already in a peaceful life, when this war is over?

Instructor. There are plans to leave on a contract basis.

– There?

No, to the Russian army. There are options and suggestions. To think about pensions, housing... You need to get married, find a husband, have children - well, that's what everyday life is like. When it's calmer. But I won’t be able to completely go to the “peace” anymore.

– Can't you see yourself in this?

Yes, I will serve under the contract. Take care of family and home.

– How do you see the solution to the conflict in Donbass? For peace to come?

Recognition of New Russia - 100%. But there are two options here - for example, there was an independent republic within Ukraine or within Russia (meaning national republics, like we have Chechnya, Tatarstan and others). Novorossia, however, does not particularly want to remain part of Ukraine, and it is necessary that Russia has already made a decision and influenced the situation.

– Within the same limits?

In general, yes, but in theory, the entire Donetsk region would be necessary if the DPR. Because, for example, I have guys from Mariupol, and they will be offended that the DPR is recognized, and Mariupol will remain part of Ukraine. It is not right.

– Many people from the territory controlled by the Kiev government left to fight for the militia?

Quite a lot, yes. There are those who fought on the same side, and then they went over to our side. Their eyes were opened. It happens that, getting captured, they also change their minds.- Last question. If a person wants to help the militia in some way, what should he do? Maybe pass it through the Museum of Novorossia?

Well, yes, there are personal numbers, scores, and things and the rest are best transferred through the Museum of Novorossia. Moreover, I know some here, so to speak, the guys will help. The example of Vesselina Cherdantseva proves that being a pretty and young girl, one can also be a full-fledged “combat unit”, a real patriot, able to command a group and inspire fear in enemies.

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A Petersburger who posted a photo of a fugitive member of the Fedorovich gang told the site where and when she saw him

A resident of St. Petersburg, Veselina Cherdantseva, who posted on her VKontakte page a photograph of Sergei Ermolinsky from St. Petersburg (nickname “henri_spb”), who was put on the international wanted list on suspicion of complicity in the gang of Yekaterinburg lawyer-blogger Vasily Fedorovich, explained the site when she saw Yermolinsky.

“This photo, if traced back in history, was taken in 2011. Knowing the reaction of many journalists, I just had fun and decided to “throw out” this photo. It shows that I am not the same as the modern one. This photo is old. I haven't seen him for a long time. I'm surprised it took so long to get a response, I posted the photo back in July." Cherdantseva knows that Yermolinsky is wanted. The girl says that she “does not need these problems,” but immediately adds: “If I had seen him there (where exactly - ed. note), I would definitely not have discovered him.”

Ermolinsky's photo was posted on Cherdantseva's page on July 8, 2014. “The one I did not expect to meet here is my old St. Petersburg comrade Henry! But there was some joy, ”Cherdantseva signed the picture. Where exactly "here", she does not specify.

Above on the page of the girl there is a post that sheds light on where exactly she could meet Yermolinsky. On August 16, a certain Alexander Barkashov posted a photo of Cherdantseva in military uniform with automatic weapons in her hands and a comment to it: “Vasilina Cherdantseva has been in the war for three months. Now in the hospital in Krasnodar - three shrapnel wounds (on the 24th). But going back in a week. These are the people!" Among other posts on the girl’s page, there are those that directly indicate that she was in the ranks of the Donbass militia for a long time.

The case of Fedorovich's gang, we recall, was investigated by the Sverdlovsk department of the RF IC and is now being considered in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court (the next hearing is on September 9). There are nine defendants in the dock. According to investigators, the group operated on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region from the mid-2000s until the summer of 2012. The victims were people who had money or valuable property, including real estate. With those who fell into the hands of bandits, they dealt with special cruelty. On Elmash, in an underground garage box, they even had a torture room, which was also used for butchering corpses.

The gang, security officials believe, included 11 people. 30-year-old Daniil Potashnikov (he was known on social networks under the nickname "gd-ekb"), who was considered the second leader, was killed in May 2012 by his own accomplices. Sergey Yermolinsky (nickname "henri_spb") has been put on the international wanted list, and a reward of 1 million rubles has been announced for him.

From the published materials of the case, it is known that Yermolinsky was involved in the murder of a 23-year-old student of the Ural Mining University (UGGU) Yegor Polyansky. According to investigators, the young man was engaged in the manufacture and sale of smoking mixtures (the mother of the deceased says that he earned money by repairing and reselling cars). Through mutual acquaintances, he contacted the lawyer Fedorovich to consult on the development of his business, and let slip about the money.

Together with Potashnikov, Fedorovich developed a plan for another crime. Polyansky was told about a certain acquaintance who wants to sell a batch of drugs cheaply. He expressed a desire to acquire it and gave his future killers 100 thousand rubles as a deposit. No one handed over the drugs to the miner, then he began to demand money back. The bandits decided to eliminate him.

Polyansky was kidnapped on the street. In order for the victim not to resist, Danila Potashnikov was dressed in a police uniform, which Ivan Guzhin, a former employee of the linear police department at the Shartash station of the Sverdlovsk Railway, got him. He approached the spice dealer and stated that he was detained on suspicion of drug trafficking. Polyansky was taken to a garage, where he was tortured for a long time, trying to force him to give them money. He refused. Then he was taken to the 27th kilometer of the Serov tract, where they cut the arteries in his neck and groin, shot him in the back of the head with a pistol, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire.

During this period, Ermolinsky was in the Sverdlovsk region. He came to the open championship of the Urals in knife fighting. “For a long time I thought what to write about the trip to the Urals. Impressions from the trip for a wide range of readers, sorry, are not intended at all. Oh, how many wonderful memories from this short, in fact, trip will remain in the memory. Probably for the first time in my life there was a feeling that somehow I didn’t want to go home. In general, many thanks to everyone - viper_ns (Vasily Fedorovich), Danil gd_ekb (Daniil Potashnikov) and his guys, well, and the wonderful Lenochka kryptozz. Come on, come to St. Petersburg, ”Yermolinsky wrote after this trip in his LiveJournal.

After Fyodorovich was detained in the summer of 2012, and then they began to come to the rest of the group, nothing was known about "Henry" Yermolinsky. It was not possible to find him in St. Petersburg. They put him on the wanted list, but so far he has not given any results. There was even a common version that Yermolinsky, like Potashnikov, was killed by his own people, they just don’t admit to what they have done.

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NOVOROSSIYSK, March 24. The militiamen of Donbass accused the commander of the Vympel detachment Vesselina Cherdantseva (call sign Vasya, in the media she was called a sniper) of killing their deputy, volunteer Alexei Mayorov (call sign Musa) from Novorossiysk. The sister of the deceased, Tatyana, told Ura.ru correspondent Andrey Guselnikov about the circumstances of his death.

The first time a man went to the Donbass in July - he fought near Krasnodon for about a month, was wounded, spent several weeks in a Rostov hospital. The second time the paratrooper went as a volunteer to the East of Ukraine in early October. I ended up in Gorlovka, in the unit of Igor Bezler ("Demon"), in the Vympel detachment - to Cherdantseva. Relatives did not know about the trip. After Mayorov stopped calling, his sister sounded the alarm and contacted "Vasya". She assured that on October 22, the military went home. The version that "Musa" was killed and is with the Ukrainian military has not been confirmed.

Information about the fate of Musa appeared a month later. People reacted to the video that Tatyana recorded on Donetsk TV while looking for her brother. They testified, and also told about everything that happened, the newspaper reports. In Novorossiysk, a pre-investigation check was appointed in connection with the disappearance of Mayorov, and the Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR opened a criminal case on the fact of his premeditated murder.

It turned out that Aleksey was killed on October 28, 2014. According to the story of colleagues, "Vasya" and "Musa" drank and cursed all night. In the morning, she announced that she was refusing his help in work, the military man said that he was leaving for home. Together with his colleague in a car, he went to the station. Following him went and "Vasya". Fire was opened on Mayorov's car. “Lesha and Maly got to the greenery (a forest plantation on both sides of the road), they hear they are being shot at,” Tatyana recounts. They thought it was an ambush. Malaya says to Lesha: “Take a machine gun, shoot back!” (Lesha handed over his own before leaving!) We reached the checkpoint of the Vostok battalion. Here Vasya drives up with his "personal" and takes them into the woods next to the checkpoint.

According to the fighters, she forced him to raise his hands and kneel, he refused to do this, and asked to be released, saying that he was going to his son. “And after that she gave a turn - hit him in the shin and thigh. The boys and I were breathing to him. She went into the car. I’ll figure it out now.’” Witnesses think that the woman just wanted to scare Lesha by shooting at the ground, but she “swung.” However, even after that machine gun burst, according to everyone, Musa could have been saved. “She took the machine gun. She came up three times shot Alexei in the head," says Tatyana. "Then her 'person' took a shovel at that checkpoint and buried him." Musa's body was dug up recently, when the exact burial place became known. Alexei Mayorov's identity was identified only by the characteristic tattoos on his hands. The militias told the newspaper's journalist that Cherdantseva was not a sniper: "She invented the pseudonym 'Veselina Cherdantseva', her real name is Ksenia Vitalievna Shikalova," one of the fighters said. “During the Crimean events, I sat in St. Petersburg, got mixed up with the Nazis.”

Major General of the DPR army Bezler (his unit is now disbanded), who brought Vesselina closer to him and appointed her as a detachment commander, did not want to comment on the story of the death of Alexei Mayorov to Ura.Ru. However, he gave his sister 15,000 hryvnias to pay for the costs of the coffin and the delivery of the body from Donetsk to Novorossiysk. He also helped the investigation find the machine gun from which Aleksey was killed, in order to conduct a ballistic examination.

According to the latest information, Vaselina Cherdantseva is at home - in Bratsk. In response to a reporter's request for an interview, she wrote, "I'm just wondering if this all makes sense? Accused already accused. The main thing is to justify yourself to relatives, so they will no longer believe. As for the others... my family and friends know me and believe me. Testimony was given by the former, who now threatens me regularly. What is this all for?".

Evidence has appeared on the Internet that a wanted member of a brutal Ural gang, Sergei Yermolinsky, is hiding in the ranks of illegal armed groups operating in eastern Ukraine. The leader of the group with which Yermolinsky was connected is the neo-Nazi lawyer Vasily Fedorovich, nicknamed the Viper. He, along with a student girlfriend, a police officer and other henchmen, are suspected of at least 14 murders.

Indirect evidence of the presence of Yermolinsky on the territory of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR was posted on its website. page on the social network "VKontakte" his girlfriend Veselina Cherdantseva, nicknamed Evil.

The image of a man in a camouflage uniform and dark glasses, who looks like Sergei Yermolinsky, appeared on the Internet on July 8. The picture was taken in the forest in the style of "selfie".

“That’s who I didn’t expect to meet here, so it’s my old St. Petersburg comrade Henry! But it was a joy))))),” wrote Veselina, who is also present on it (spelling and punctuation are preserved) under the photo.

Note that Ermolinsky uses the nickname henri_spb on the Web.

Attempts by employees of the Znak.com publication to contact Veselina were unsuccessful. First the call was hung up, and then the phone was switched off.

Meanwhile, all the content posted on Vesselina's page indicates that she has been participating in hostilities in Ukraine for a long time. Apparently, it was there that she met Yermolinsky.

Sheds light on the fate of Vesselina herself entry from the page of the leader of the banned extremist organization RNU Alexander Barkashov, which he posted literally on August 27. "Vasilina Cherdantseva - three months in the war. Now in the hospital in Krasnodar - three shrapnel wounds (on the 24th). But she is going back in a week. These are the people!" - wrote Barkashov.

By the way, Barkashov signed another group photograph with armed men: "A division of the Russian National Unity, somewhere near Gorlovka." Judging by the status, the leader of the RNE is recruiting young men into illegal armed groups operating in Ukraine.

The last status on the girl's page reads: "It is better to rule hell than serve in heaven." And Cherdantseva's contact number is similar to that given in the announcement posted on the VKontakte network in connection with the recruitment of knife fighting to the school. It is known that many members of Fedorovich's gang, including himself and Yermolinsky, were fond of this sport.

Now Yermolinsky is on the international wanted list. For help in his capture, a reward of 1 million rubles has been announced.

However, the press secretary of the Sverdlovsk department of the RF IC, Alexander Shulga, refused to say whether the detectives knew about Yermolinsky's whereabouts. At the same time, he referred to the fact that "operational information is not subject to disclosure."

We add that people with a serious criminal past were identified among pro-Russian militants before. In early July, on the published photo and video materials, they saw another Petersburger - a 23-year-old fan of the Zenit football team, Alexei Milchakov, nicknamed Fritz. Previously, he became famous as a neo-Nazi who posted photos of the monstrous massacre of a dog on the VKontakte social network. On them, he kills a puppy with particular cruelty, cuts off his head and eats it.

"Cut the homeless, puppies and children! Run away from the mongrels and hand over your own," wrote Alexei Milchakov.

Zhivoder did not hide the fact that he was a convinced neo-Nazi. According to his confessions, he repeatedly shot at anti-fascists.

And when hostilities began in Ukraine, Milchakov, apparently, went there to fight "Nazis and Bandera," as many Russian publications call supporters of the country's unity.

"The case of Fedorovich's gang"

As follows from the materials of the high-profile case, the leader of the group of murderers was the son of a musician known in Yekaterinburg, a hereditary lawyer, blogger and lawyer Vasily Fedorovich, who bore the nicknames Viper NS and Viper.

The backbone of the group was formed back in 2005 from Daniil Potashnikov, his 22-year-old cousin and Suvorovite Roman Kiriyakov, and 24-year-old Anton Chirkin.

In September 2011, Daniil met Vasily Fedorovich to consult on legal issues. It is assumed that they were brought together by a common acquaintance from the skinhead movement.

Daniil, who organized the murder of his mother for the sake of an apartment, also brought his younger brother Anton to the gang. Prior to that, Anton served time in the colony for robbery. Following his criminal brother, his former cellmate Yegor Drovnikov joined the group. And Vasily Fedorovich dragged his student girlfriend Elena Sukhikh into crimes.

The lawyer was responsible in the gang for the search for potential victims and legal protection, and Daniil Potashnikov focused on the organizational preparation of crimes. Vasily also monitored the actions of law enforcement agencies. In this, he was assisted by the identified member of the group, Ivan Guzhin, who worked undercover in the police.

Later, students Artem Vafin and Andrey Zorin, who is the son of a former employee of the administration of the Sverdlovsk governor Yevgeny Zorin (he worked under Eduard Rossel, Alexander Misharin and Yevgeny Kuyvashev), joined Fedorovich's gang.

Fedorovich and his accomplices are involved in the murder of a citizen of Syria and the United States, George Kara Yakubyan. His charred body was found in an inspection hole in an abandoned garage on Kommunisticheskaya Street in Yekaterinburg in April 2012.

It was established that Yakubyan arrived in Yekaterinburg on March 6, 2012 at the invitation of Fedorovich. Together with him, they discussed the prospects for the development of street trading in the Ural capital. Yakubyan was taken from the Koltsovo airport to a landfill in the forest. There, a foreigner was robbed, stealing his laptop, computer external hard drives and credit cards totaling more than 100 thousand rubles. Yakubyan was brutally tortured: his teeth were knocked out, his nose was crushed, his fingers were broken and he was drugged, trying to get access codes to the cards.

In the end, Yakubyan was stabbed to death, and then his head was smashed with a sledgehammer. Only in April the corpse of a foreigner with handcuffs fastened on his hands was discovered. Subsequently, the criminals were able to figure out when they began to withdraw money from one of the credit cards of the murdered American.

On March 31, 2012, Yegor Polyansky was kidnapped in the center of Yekaterinburg. For this crime, one of the leaders of the gang, Daniil Potashnikov (later killed by his accomplices), changed into a police uniform, which police officer Ivan Guzhin got them. Potashnikov introduced himself to Polyansky as a law enforcement officer and stated that he was detained on suspicion of drug trafficking.

Polyansky was taken to a garage, where he was tortured for a long time, trying to force him to give back the money (on the day of the kidnapping, according to Yegor's mother, her son wanted to buy a car). Then the hostage was taken to the 27th kilometer of the Serov tract, where the arteries in his neck and groin were cut. The victim was also shot in the back of the head with a pistol.

Polyansky's corpse was doused with gasoline and set on fire. In addition to the leaders of the group (Fedorovich and Potashnikov) and their accomplice Roman Kiriyakov, a friend of Fedorovich from St. Petersburg, winner of regional knife fighting competitions Semyon Yermolinsky, participated in this murder. He came to the Sverdlovsk region for the open championship of the Urals in knife fighting, and at the same time "practiced" in the murder.

The bandits also abducted 17-year-old Vladislav Luzin, who in the spring of 2012 took away a laptop from Zorin Jr. Fedorovich, Potashnikov, Zorin and Sukhikh found Luzin, took away his computer, and the young man was taken to the forest near Krasnolesye and beaten.

Andrei Zorin's father later explained that his son's thesis was stored in the laptop and he himself asked Fyodorovich, whom he knew, to help with the search for the missing thing. According to another version, the computer stored information on real estate, which was taken away by Fedorovich's gang from their victims. That is why the criminals rushed to look for him.

By the way, Fedorovich and his henchmen suspected the leader of another neo-Nazi gang, a former sniper and veteran of the Chechen campaign, Vladimir Kustov, of organizing the theft of a laptop. His criminals strangled and burned in a barrel.

After the liquidation of the Viper group, 10 people were under investigation, and Semyon Yermolinsky and Daniil Potashnikov were put on the wanted list. Later, the detainees confessed that they killed Daniil, and his brother Anton dealt with him.

Investigators accused the bandits of 14 murders, rapes and robberies, although they were initially suspected of 41 murders. Members of the organized criminal group were charged under Part 2 of Art. 105 ("Murder"), part 4 of Art. 111 (“Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of a person”), art. 119 ("Threat to kill"), art. 126 ("Kidnapping"), art. 161 ("Robbery"), art. 132 ("Violent acts of a sexual nature"), Part 1 of Art. 209 ("Creating a gang") and part 2 of Art. 209 ("Participation in a gang") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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Sergey Yermolinsky In the ranks of terrorists in the East of Ukraine, 27-year-old St. Petersburg resident Sergey Yermolinsky was spotted, put on the international wanted list at the request of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on suspicion of complicity in the gang of Yekaterinburg lawyer-blogger Vasily Fedorovich, whose members are accused of 14 brutal murders and a series of crashes.

This is evidenced by a photograph of Yermolinsky posted on the page on the social network "VKontakte" of a resident of St. Petersburg, Vesselina Cherdantseva, who is fighting on the side of terrorists in the Donbass.

“The one I did not expect to meet here is my old St. Petersburg comrade Henry! But there was some joy, ”Cherdantseva signed the picture.

Where exactly she met him, Cherdantseva does not specify. However, judging by other information available on her page, at that time Cherdantseva was in the East of Ukraine in the ranks of terrorist organizations.

For example, on August 16, a certain Alexander Barkashov, who introduces himself as the head of the Russian National Unity, posted a photo of Cherdantseva in military uniform with an automatic weapon in his hands and a comment to it:

“Vasilina Cherdantseva - three months in the war. Now in the hospital in Krasnodar - three shrapnel wounds (on the 24th). But going back in a week. These are the people!" Among other posts on the girl’s page, there are those that directly indicate that she was in the ranks of the terrorists of Donbass for a long time. And, apparently, I saw "Henry" Yermolinsky there.

According to Russian media, the case of Fedorovich's gang was investigated by the Sverdlovsk department of the RF Investigative Committee and is now being considered in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court (the next hearing is on September 9). There are nine defendants in the dock. According to investigators, the group operated on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region from the mid-2000s until the summer of 2012. The victims were people who had money or valuable property, including real estate. With those who fell into the hands of bandits, they dealt with special cruelty. On Elmash, in an underground garage box, they even had a torture room equipped, which at the same time served for butchering corpses.

The gang, security officials believe, included 11 people. From the published materials of the case, it is known that Yermolinsky was involved in the murder of a 23-year-old student of the Ural Mining University (UGGU) Yegor Polyansky. The security forces believe that the young man was engaged in the manufacture and sale of smoking mixtures (the mother of the deceased says that he earned money by repairing and reselling cars). Through mutual acquaintances, he contacted the lawyer Fedorovich to consult on the development of his business and let slip about money. Together with Potashnikov, Fedorovich developed a plan for another crime. Polyansky was told about a certain acquaintance who wants to sell a batch of drugs cheaply. He expressed a desire to acquire it and gave his future killers 100 thousand rubles as a deposit. No one handed over the drugs to the miner, then he began to demand money back. The bandits decided to eliminate him. He was taken to the 27th kilometer of the Serov tract, where they cut the arteries in his neck and groin, shot him in the back of the head with a pistol, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire.

After Fedorovich was detained in the summer of 2012, and after that they began to come to the rest of the group, nothing was known about "Henry" Yermolinsky. It was not possible to find him in St. Petersburg. They put him on the wanted list, but so far he has not given any results. There was even a common version that Yermolinsky, like Potashnikov, was killed by his own people, they just don’t admit to what they have done.

Judging by the photographs of Cherdantseva, this is not so. However, Alexander Shulga, spokesman for the Sverdlovsk Department of the Russian Investigative Committee, refused to say whether the investigating authority now knows anything about Yermolinsky's whereabouts, citing the fact that this is "operational information" and "is not subject to disclosure."

Recall, earlier it was reported that about 250 Serbian Chetniks are fighting on the side of the terrorists in the Donbass. 99% of these are mercenary militants.