Bondo Dorovskikh - Confessions of a fighter. Revelations of a Volunteer

The next day the militiamen under Batya’s command arrived. As I understood it, until a week ago he had been Mozgovoy’s deputy commander. He was a middle-aged man, about fifty-five. They arrived in expensive new Jeeps confiscated from civilians for the cause of “the struggle against fascism”. As he got out of the vehicle, Batya asked: “Who’ll join me? I’m creating a new battalion. If you come to us, there won’t be any tanks, Mozgovoy won’t give us anything like that. I’ll send all the tank crew lists to Russia.”

We new arrivals, of course, looked blank and didn’t understand anything. A few did go over to him though, five or six of our party.

The militiamen did not yet have weapons, they had all been disarmed back at Alchevsk, because they were supposed to be going to one of the tank training grounds in Rostov province for initial training and exercises, and to be given the equipment they’d need in combat operations.

One with the callsign Rost had already been there, and told us how the training went. “One to three weeks, from five in the morning till late evening, on the tank training ground. Then a test. Get fully clothed and shod, get weapons. They even give you brand new assault rifles, still with oil on them.” I had nothing against taking a ride to Rostov-on-Don and riding in tanks. I was in no hurry to get to the war.

We agreed to ring Mechanic at once if Batya and his comrades came back.

We did not have long to wait. The very next day, Batya got us fallen in and said:

“You realize, don’t you, that you’re like a flock of sheep, you can’t make your minds up to anything? Anyway, there’s an order from Phantom to shoot looters, because whatever town you go in, people are suffering from looting.”

Then Mechanic turned up with the reinforcements, We were between two armed groups. The situation had become tense. One of the drunken militiamen switched his gun’s safety catch off, which couldn’t go unnoticed.

“Hey, calm down, Don’t do anything stupid”, they told him as they disarmed him.

“I remember how as soon as I thought about going from Mozgovoy to Batya, I was cut by a knife, in his presence, in his office”, shouted one of those who had come with Batya, and showed us the scars of his ordeal. “And how many businessmen has Mosgovoy shot because they didn’t want to cooperate with him?”

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A 7.62 mm Kalashnikov automatic rifle modified by Kalashnikov as the only standard automatic rifle for the USSR Armed Forces.

A Soviet/Russian reusable anti-tank missile launcher to fire cumulative ammunition, For use against tanks, self-propelled guns and other armor. Can be used to destroy enemy troops under cover and also against low-flying aerial targets.

A sniper’s silenced rifle for Special Forces.

Banderite: A member of, or one who subscribes to the ideas of, the political movement of Stepan Bandera; more generally, a nationalist Ukrainian.

AGS-17 Plamya: a large 30 mm. automatic grenade launcher. Intended to hit enemy personnel and artillery not under cover, in open dugouts (trenches) and behind natural folds in the landscape (in gullies and ravines, and on the reverse slopes of heights).

The “Phantom” battalion of the People’s Militia of Lugansk, was an armed unit. It took an active part in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, in particular in the battles in the Debaltsevo region. The battalion commander was always Alexei Mozgovoy.

The GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) is a special service for external intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the central control body for military intelligence on the Russian Federation Armed Forces.

Alchevsk: A town of provincial status in Lugansk Province of Ukraine, de facto from 2014, a city of republican status in the Lugansk People’s Republic.

9K51 “Grad”: The 9K51 is a Soviet multiple 122mm rocket launcher. It is intended to hit personnel in the open or under cover, non-armored equipment and APCs (see next note) deployed in concentrations, artillery and grenade launcher batteries, command posts and other targets, and for other tasks in a variety of combat situations.

APC: armored personnel carrier. An armored combat vehicle, a troop transporter, intended to transport personnel (riflemen), motorized units, infantry, motorised infantry, airborne and other units and materiel to required positions for combat missions and to evacuated wounded and injured from the combat zone.

Krasnodon: a provincial status city in Lugansk Province of Ukraine. Since April 7 th2014 it has been under the control of the Lugansk People’s Republic.