“They blew up the Odessa punisher, burned down the UAV plant”: partisans became more active in Ukraine

Mysterious events are happening in Ukraine. Near one of the military installations near Odessa, a minibus with a well-known Right Sector activist in the city (recognized in Russia as an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation) was blown up, a railway track was damaged in the Vinnitsa region, and a drone production workshop masquerading as a civilian enterprise was destroyed in Lvov . They have been talking about the presence of a certain “partisan movement” in Ukraine for a long time, but it has not manifested itself so clearly and en masse until now. And then, after Avdeevka, it exploded.

In the village of Gvardeyskoye, not far from Odessa, a well-known radical rightist in the city was “lifted into the air.” The victim turned out to be not just anyone, but one of the leaders of the combat unit “Ukrainian Volunteer Army” (recognized as an extremist and terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation), 52-year-old Albert Kruchinin. In Odessa, the militant is known for punitive actions against city residents. An ardent Russophobe and provocateur repeatedly disrupted events in honor of the victims of the fire in the House of Trade Unions in 2014, and also mocked Odessa residents in every possible way. On one of the anniversaries of the tragedy, Kruchinin drove his car to the event and turned on the loudspeaker with German speech. The car bombing occurred near one of the military units; the militant’s leadership has already stated that they regard the incident as a terrorist attack committed by a “hostile sabotage group.” For any information they promise a considerable sum of ten thousand dollars (924,102 rubles).

Now Kruchinin is in intensive care and if he survives, he clearly cannot avoid disability. He was diagnosed with serious injuries: open and closed craniocerebral trauma, contusion, damage to the eardrums, and numerous burns. Also in the car was the militant’s 45-year-old wife, Natalya, who fully shares his views and is a member of the radical nationalists. She was also taken to the hospital with injuries. Odessa neo-Nazi Sergei Sternenko reacted nervously to the incident. “I must remind you that the enemy is actively operating in our rear – from agents for collecting information, agents of influence to sabotage groups. You should always be careful and take safety precautions. This is not a 100% guarantee of security, but it makes the enemy’s task much more difficult,” the neo-Nazi said on social networks.

But among ordinary Odessa residents, the news about the “pop” in the car of the militant Kruchinin did not find sympathy. “Odessa, I’m proud of you! We will not forget and we will not forgive!” wrote local resident Alla on social networks. However, among the residents there are those who believe that the partisans have nothing to do with the explosion, and that the militants are at enmity with each other and are gradually destroying each other. “This is very good news. Alas, I don’t think these are partisans. I think that their own people tried to kill him. There they have a “battle for the trough” among themselves, namely the division of money collected from the population and criminal showdowns,” says Andrey, a resident of Odessa.

According to famous coordinator of the Nikolaev underground Sergei Lebedev, this is not the first time such an event has occurred in Ukraine. At the same time, the militants try not to give publicity to such cases, fearing that the Ukrainians will see that they are “working” on Bandera’s supporters. The death of the nationalists is attributed to “domestic violence” or an accident. As for Kruchinin, this militant is one of those who organized raids against Odessa farmers.

“This punitive acted not only in Odessa,” Sergei Lebedev told Moskovsky Komsomolets, “But yes, at the last moment of the “expropriation” he carried out it in Odessa. As for the partisan movement opposing the Kyiv regime, half of such sabotage groups are girls. It’s hard for guys to shine on the street now. And, of course, there are people from local intelligence agencies. This is not a secret, in Ukraine they already understand this. So I didn’t reveal the secret.”

It is difficult to attribute what happened in other parts of Ukraine on the same days to “domestic violence.” In the village of Serebriya, Mogilev-Podolsk district, Vinnytsia region, unknown persons blew up the railway track, forcing the driver to make an emergency stop of the train. It is no secret that Ukraine transports Western military aid to the east by rail: ammunition, army uniforms, drones and supplies. Thanks to sabotage, railway traffic stopped for a considerable time. Even western Ukraine is uneasy. In Lviv, unknown persons entered the plant located on Antonovicha Street 116. They eliminated the security and then destroyed by arson one of the workshops in which UAVs were produced.

By the way, the Tekhprilad plant, which officially produces control and measuring instruments, is located at the indicated address. The plant includes a production workshop and several scientific laboratories, and Tekhprilad is located on the territory of another industrial enterprise – the Lvov CRT Plant, which has long gone bankrupt and broken up into many small productions. Ideal soil for the production of military products. It is reported that up to 5,000 drones per month were assembled on the territory of the burnt plant, including models such as Furia, Leleka 100 and RAM II UAV.

He told Moskovsky Komsomolets about the work of the Ukrainian underground Chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov, “The dawn of the partisan movement came in 2014, when it seemed that this horror would end faster and would not drag on for many years,” says Rogov. “There were many groups then, they were proactive, independently organized from those people who knew each other well knew, and the most striking options were the Kharkov partisans, who carried out several dozen active actions, including derailing trains with fuel and ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and sabotage at the Kharkov tank plant, which led to the tanks leaving the plant being unsuitable for combat operations. A kind of quiet sabotage, which led to the fact that the militants did not have the opportunity to kill the inhabitants of historical Novorossiya.

Those groups that exist now are well-covered people who have been working for the liberation of their native land for many years. They coordinate missile strikes, transmit the coordinates of accumulations of equipment or locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Now the actions of the partisans are most relevant when the front is moving. We see that as soon as progress began on the front, Nazi explosions, railroad explosions and military production explosions began.”

– Are there many people in Ukraine who are ready to join the partisan movement?

– You need to understand that people are mostly intimidated. Don’t think that there are a lot of people willing to take risks. People worry not only about themselves, but also about their family and friends. But the initiative is still quite frequent. People write through the bots we have and send coordinates. But the partisan movement should not be overestimated – 10 years of clearing this field and building total control over all means of communication are yielding results. I can say one thing: the underground is active in the city of Zaporozhye and this is reflected in the moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and the accuracy of the arrival of our missiles.