AS PREDICTED ON RADIO CONTRA: Russian Shadow Tanker Fleet Weapons Smuggling Group Uncovered

Ukrainian hackers have uncovered a Russian weapons smuggling group, operating in conjunction with Russia’s “shadow tanker” fleet putting arms into the hands of terrorists worldwide.

“We can even smuggle nuclear weapons”: how officers of the 291st regiment of the Russian Armed… pic.twitter.com/X9fhd1jyjL

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Ukrainian hackers have uncovered a Russian weapons smuggling group, operating in conjunction with Russia’s “shadow tanker” fleet putting arms into the hands of terrorists worldwide.

“We can even smuggle nuclear weapons”: how officers of the 291st regiment of the Russian Armed Forces and “Vostok-Akhmat” organized an arms smuggling operation through Crimea.

The Ukrainian hacker group 256 Cyber Assault Division, in cooperation with the international intelligence community InformNapalm, conducted another CYBINT operation, during which important intelligence data for the Ukrainian Defense Forces were obtained.

The main part of the public part of this study is the exposure of facts about the supply chains of smuggled weapons from the combat zone to temporarily occupied Crimea. In turn, the peninsula serves as a hub for the further transportation of weapons to “black markets” in the regions of Russia, as well as to Europe, Western Asia, and Africa, using Russian “shadow fleet” tankers.

During the operation, the accounts of Russian officers were hacked, including Major Yevgeny Dmitriev – the platoon commander of the Russian assault company “Storm V” of the 291st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (42nd Motor Rifle Division, 58th Combined Arms Army), which is currently operating on the Zaporizhia direction.

Facts of cooperation between Russian officers and representatives of the Kadyrovite battalion “Vostok-Akhmat” regarding the illegal sale of weapons were exposed.

🙆‍♂️ In addition, after hacking the accounts of Russian officers, Ukrainian hackers carried out a successful operation with elements of social engineering. On behalf of the Russian major, they deceived the administrators of the 💀-public of the millionaire “Two Majors” and forced them to transfer funds from the current collection of the 291st regiment of the Russian Armed Forces to the needs of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (video report at the end of the publication).

Read more about all these facts in the article on the InformNapalm website. Currently, the publication is available for review and distribution in Ukrainian and in Russian.