INFLUENCE NETWORK FORENSICS // 2026-10-28

Operation 'Rebranding 2.0': How Sanctioned O. Arestovych Evaded UA NSDC Restrictions via a 2013 YouTube Sleeper Channel and Exposed a GRU Botfarm Carrying the Russian Hard Sign '-ъ9и'

Publication / Verification Date: 2026-10-28
Analytical Rubric: INFLUENCE NETWORK FORENSICS
Original Ukrainian Investigation Title: Операція «Перевзування 2.0»: як Арестович обійшов санкції РНБО через консерву 2013 року і спалив ботоферму ГРУ з твердим знаком «-ъ9и»

1. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE & COMPLIANCE SUMMARY

Technical investigation of how UA NSDC sanctioned figure Oleksiy Arestovych (Decree No. 267/2025) activated a dormant 2013 YouTube channel (@GlobalArestovych96) to bypass geoblocking in Ukraine while deploying a cluster of pseudo-Ukrainian comment bots (@ОлександрСоболь-ъ9и, @АндрійСердечний-э6р, @СашаПетренко-ы8ъ) whose system-generated handles betray Russian ru-RU Google locale registration (-ъ, -э, -ы).

2. METHODOLOGY & PRIMARY VERIFICATION SOURCES

Zero-Hallucination Primary Evidence Standard: All findings in this investigation are cross-verified against official open registries (UA NSDC Presidential Decrees, Unified State Register of Court Decisions of Ukraine, Russian FNS EGRUL / Roskomnadzor registries, YouTube Innertube API locale metadata ru-RU / availableCountryCodes, Facebook numeric UID / URL-slug forensics, and archived screenshots).
Bilingual Cross-Reference: Full Ukrainian verbatim transcripts and primary source quotes are preserved in the paired Ukrainian edition (/issue/issue-arestovych-2026-10-28), while all forensic screenshots and visual proofs are embedded directly below.

3. ARCHIVED FORENSIC SCREENSHOTS & VISUAL EVIDENCE (1)

Forensic Investigation Screenshot #1 — issue-arestovych-2026-10-28

Profiled Targets

🔴 25 Red Contour / 🔵 9 Blue

Certified Bots (UID)

100

FB homoglyphs, 615-UIDs, YT ru-RU

🔥 RU VPK Plants & Sanctions

114

9 weapon chains · 215 execs unsanctioned

OSINT Investigations

PsyOps & botfarm forensics

Matrix Nodes / Edges

170 / 123

Botfarm amplification + RU state media

⚖️ OPERBAZA DOCTRINE: TWO HARD TECHNICAL CRITERIA OF HOSTILE INFORMATION OPERATIONS

🔴 CRITERION #1 (Russian Botfarm Symbiosis + Selective Moderation): systematic amplification by industrial Russian botfarms (ru-RU locale YouTube bots -ъ / -ы / -э, Latin-Cyrillic homoglyph farms, .XXXXXX & id=615... batch autoregs, Russian regional profiles) combined with rapid deletion/blocking of factual comments while preserving Russian bots at the top of threads.
📺 CRITERION #2 (Synchronized Russian State Media Pickup): rapid syndication (within 15–120 minutes) across Russian federal state outlets (TASS, RIA Novosti, Ukraina.ru / Rossiya Segodnya, Lenta.ru, Topwar.ru).

CERTIFIED REGISTRY OF IDENTIFIED GRU BOTS, BATCH AUTOREGS & SLEEPER ACCOUNTS

Every record is verified via profile/subscription screenshots, numeric Facebook UID, or Russian ru-RU locale handle markers (-ъ9и / -э6р / -ы8ъ)

SPECIAL OSINT INVESTIGATIONS & DISINFORMATION NETWORK FORENSICS

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100% ВІДКРИТІ РЕЄСТРИ РФ + OPENSANCTIONS (OSINT / COMPLIANCE): Реквізити юросіб (ІПН, ОГРН), координати цехів, ПІБ директорів і головних інженерів, прямі телефони та e-mail отримані виключно з офіційних відкритих реєстрів самої РФ (ЄГРЮЛ ФНС РФ, Ростехнагляд, ЄІС «Госзакупки», e-disclosure.ru) і звірені з міжнародними санкційними списками (🇺🇦 РНБО України, 🇺🇸 OFAC SDN/CSL, 🇪🇺 Рада ЄС, 🇬🇧 UK FCDO станом на 29.10.2026).

⬇️ Download /vpk.json ⬇️ Download /vpk.csv (Excel)

🕸️ INTERACTIVE MATRIX: RUSSIAN WEAPON SYSTEM ➔ 4-TIER FACTORY SUPPLY CHAIN (EXECUTIVES & PHONES)

Оберіть систему озброєння РФ — матриця розгорне 4 ешелони її промислової кооперації (від головного КБ і двигунів до ГСН, мікросхем, твердого палива та вибухівки) з прямими контактами керівництва

📡 RUSSIAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY SANCTIONS RADAR (UA NSDC / US OFAC / EU / UK FCDO) & WESTERN BLIND SPOT

Despite entity-level designations, 77.3% of executive & engineering leadership (215 of 278 general directors, chief engineers, and technical directors) and 11 upstream & component defense plants remain OUTSIDE personal or direct US, EU, and UK sanctions lists

🏭 DEFENSE ENTERPRISE REGISTRY & EXECUTIVE CONTACTS: All 114 Russian VPK Defense Plants

Showing: 114 of 114 enterprises

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100% SELF-PUBLISHED OPEN DATA (PUBLIC TELEGRAM POSTS): All Russian mobile SBP phone numbers (+7 9...), Sberbank/VTB/T-Bank/PSB card numbers, recipient identities, and contact Telegram @handles listed below were published directly by Russian military bloggers, Z-channel administrators, and UAV/EW procurement fundraisers in their own public posts and channel descriptions (t.me/s/...).

📞 OPEN RUSSIAN SBP PHONES (+7 9...) & TELEGRAM @HANDLES OF Z-BLOGGERS AND UAV/EW PROCUREMENT FUNDS

🎯 Direct Russian SBP mobile numbers, bank recipient details, and personal Telegram @handles publicly posted by Russian Z-channels for UAV, EW, thermal optics, and tactical comms crowdfunding

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100% OPEN-SOURCE TRANSCRIPT CROSS-AUDIT (PUBLIC YOUTUBE INTERVIEWS): Forensic analysis based exclusively on officially published interviews with captured Russian soldiers on the channels of Dmytro Karpenko (“Apostol” / @DmytroKarpenko) and Volodymyr Zolkin (@VolodymyrZolkin). Every timestamped claim is cross-checked against engineering physics, military topography, clinical medicine, and open Russian state/court registries.

🧠 SYSTEMIC FORENSIC METHODOLOGY: RUSSIAN POW DECEPTION PATTERNS & INTERVIEWER BLIND SPOTS

Why 95% of captured Russian operatives claim to be "water carriers / cooks / locksmiths" and which engineering, medical, and tactical inconsistencies slip past interviewers in live conversation

1. Tailored for Post-Exchange FSB Counterintelligence Filtration

Experienced contract personnel tailor their answers not for Ukrainian viewers, but for post-exchange FSB Military Counterintelligence interrogation at Mosrentgen: attributing technical/defense details to "engineers", avoiding war-crime admissions, and recording on camera that they ran out of ammunition and were captured by surprise.

2. Blind Spot #1: Engineering Physics ("9th-Grade Locksmith Commissioning 50m Lines")

Non-engineering interviewers miss technical contradictions in civilian cover stories: when a subject claims 9th-grade manual labor yet travels on industrial commissioning deployments for 50-meter production lines while reciting physical impossibilities about metallurgical or defense machinery.

3. Blind Spot #2: Clinical Impossibility of the "Water Carrier" Cover Story

The POW claims 30-km foot marches hauling heavy water and ration packs, yet admits in the same interview to a severed arm artery with post-surgical contracture, a punctured lung, and spinal disc herniation—conditions clinically incompatible with heavy porter duty.

4. Blind Spot #3: Masking Academy/University Years (Ages 17–21) with "Juvenile Prison"

To conceal military academy or technical university enrollment between ages 17 and 21, the operative fabricates a 3.5-year juvenile prison sentence—yet fails to recall the basic reason for his alleged first arrest.

5. Blind Spot #4: Unscripted Slips by Relatives During Live Phone Calls

Relatives on live phone calls do not know the cover story just told in the studio and expose reality within seconds: dug-in forward observation/hideout duty ("sitting buried on drops of water"), missing bank payouts, or sensitive contact names whom the POW abruptly silences.

6. Blind Spot #5: Instant Specialist Reflexes (Optics, Weapons & GRU Tactics)

An alleged untrained "water carrier" who claims to have fired a rifle twice on a range accurately identifies Ukrainian SOF weapon optics (side-mounted thermal sight + red-dot collimator) within a 3-second forest firefight and details neighboring GRU brigade tactics.

🕸️ RUSSIAN BOTFARM MATRIX & AMPLIFICATION PIPELINE (CROSS-NETWORK X-RAY)

Наочна схема того, які саме промислові ботоферми РФ обслуговують яких клієнтів, де працюють «боти-багатоверстатники» та як пости фігурантів за хвилини стають заголовками ТАСС і Украина.ру

КРОК 1 // ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИЙ ЗАПАЛ

📢 Вкид клієнта / ЛОМа

Публікація тези про «нелегітимність», «крадіжку на ракетах Фламінго / ППО», «бусифікацію» або «потребу капітуляції» на сторінці фігуранта у Facebook, YouTube чи Telegram.

КРОК 2 // ГОЛОВНИЙ ДОКАЗ УМИСЛУ (КРИТЕРІЙ №1)

🤖 Залп ботоферми РФ + Селективний бан

Промислова сітка РФ (-ъ9и, омогліфи, 615..., Воронеж/Саранськ/Уфа) миттєво заходить у гілку. Автор за хвилини банить живих українців із фактами та номерами справ, але дбайливо зберігає ботів РФ у топі коментарів.

КРОК 3 // КАПІТАЛІЗАЦІЯ В КРЕМЛІ (КРИТЕРІЙ №2)

📺 Заголовки ТАСС / РИА / Украина.ру

За 15–120 хвилин цитата фігуранта виходить у федеральних ЗМІ РФ (ФГУП МИА «Россия сегодня», ТАСС, Lenta.ru, topwar.ru) як «визнання всередині самої України».

🏭 КАРТА 6 ПРОМИСЛОВИХ БОТОФЕРМ РФ: ТЕХНОЛОГІЯ ТА СПИСОК КЛІЄНТІВ НА ОБСЛУГОВУВАННІ

🎯 ПОКЛІЄНТСЬКИЙ РЕНТГЕН: ХТО ПРАЦЮЄ З БОТОФЕРМАМИ ТА РОСЗМІ (ЧЕРВОНИЙ КОНТУР ЗГОРИ)

Клікніть на будь-якого бота або досьє для відкриття першоджерела зі скріншотами

Operation 'Rebranding 2.0': How Sanctioned O. Arestovych Evaded UA NSDC Restrictions via a 2013 YouTube Sleeper Channel and Exposed a GRU Botfarm Carrying the Russian Hard Sign '-ъ9и'

Operation 'Rebranding 2.0': How Sanctioned O. Arestovych Evaded UA NSDC Restrictions via a 2013 YouTube Sleeper Channel and Exposed a GRU Botfarm Carrying the Russian Hard Sign '-ъ9и'

1. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE & COMPLIANCE SUMMARY

2. METHODOLOGY & PRIMARY VERIFICATION SOURCES

3. ARCHIVED FORENSIC SCREENSHOTS & VISUAL EVIDENCE (1)

🔥 Russian Military-Industrial Complex (VPK) Supply Chains & Sanctions Blind-Spot Registry

CERTIFIED REGISTRY OF IDENTIFIED GRU BOTS, BATCH AUTOREGS & SLEEPER ACCOUNTS

SPECIAL OSINT INVESTIGATIONS & DISINFORMATION NETWORK FORENSICS

🕸️ INTERACTIVE MATRIX: RUSSIAN WEAPON SYSTEM ➔ 4-TIER FACTORY SUPPLY CHAIN (EXECUTIVES & PHONES)

📡 RUSSIAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY SANCTIONS RADAR (UA NSDC / US OFAC / EU / UK FCDO) & WESTERN BLIND SPOT

📞 OPEN RUSSIAN SBP PHONES (+7 9...) & TELEGRAM @HANDLES OF Z-BLOGGERS AND UAV/EW PROCUREMENT FUNDS

🧠 SYSTEMIC FORENSIC METHODOLOGY: RUSSIAN POW DECEPTION PATTERNS & INTERVIEWER BLIND SPOTS

OPERATIONAL CHRONICLE & RUSSIAN FEDERAL MEDIA AMPLIFICATION RADAR

📸 ДОШКА ДОКАЗІВ: КОГО ЦИТУЄ РОСПРОПАГАНДА (ФГУП МИА «РОССИЯ СЕГОДНЯ» / УКРАИНА.РУ / LENTA.RU)

🕸️ RUSSIAN BOTFARM MATRIX & AMPLIFICATION PIPELINE (CROSS-NETWORK X-RAY)

🏭 КАРТА 6 ПРОМИСЛОВИХ БОТОФЕРМ РФ: ТЕХНОЛОГІЯ ТА СПИСОК КЛІЄНТІВ НА ОБСЛУГОВУВАННІ

🎯 ПОКЛІЄНТСЬКИЙ РЕНТГЕН: ХТО ПРАЦЮЄ З БОТОФЕРМАМИ ТА РОСЗМІ (ЧЕРВОНИЙ КОНТУР ЗГОРИ)

Operation 'Rebranding 2.0': How Sanctioned O. Arestovych Evaded UA NSDC Restrictions via a 2013 YouTube Sleeper Channel and Exposed a GRU Botfarm Carrying the Russian Hard Sign '-ъ9и'

Operation 'Rebranding 2.0': How Sanctioned O. Arestovych Evaded UA NSDC Restrictions via a 2013 YouTube Sleeper Channel and Exposed a GRU Botfarm Carrying the Russian Hard Sign '-ъ9и'

1. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE & COMPLIANCE SUMMARY

2. METHODOLOGY & PRIMARY VERIFICATION SOURCES

3. ARCHIVED FORENSIC SCREENSHOTS & VISUAL EVIDENCE (1)

🔥 Russian Military-Industrial Complex (VPK) Supply Chains & Sanctions Blind-Spot Registry

CERTIFIED REGISTRY OF IDENTIFIED GRU BOTS, BATCH AUTOREGS & SLEEPER ACCOUNTS

SPECIAL OSINT INVESTIGATIONS & DISINFORMATION NETWORK FORENSICS

🕸️ INTERACTIVE MATRIX: RUSSIAN WEAPON SYSTEM ➔ 4-TIER FACTORY SUPPLY CHAIN (EXECUTIVES & PHONES)

📡 RUSSIAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY SANCTIONS RADAR (UA NSDC / US OFAC / EU / UK FCDO) & WESTERN BLIND SPOT

📞 OPEN RUSSIAN SBP PHONES (+7 9...) & TELEGRAM @HANDLES OF Z-BLOGGERS AND UAV/EW PROCUREMENT FUNDS

🧠 SYSTEMIC FORENSIC METHODOLOGY: RUSSIAN POW DECEPTION PATTERNS & INTERVIEWER BLIND SPOTS

OPERATIONAL CHRONICLE & RUSSIAN FEDERAL MEDIA AMPLIFICATION RADAR

📸 ДОШКА ДОКАЗІВ: КОГО ЦИТУЄ РОСПРОПАГАНДА (ФГУП МИА «РОССИЯ СЕГОДНЯ» / УКРАИНА.РУ / LENTA.RU)

🕸️ RUSSIAN BOTFARM MATRIX & AMPLIFICATION PIPELINE (CROSS-NETWORK X-RAY)

🏭 КАРТА 6 ПРОМИСЛОВИХ БОТОФЕРМ РФ: ТЕХНОЛОГІЯ ТА СПИСОК КЛІЄНТІВ НА ОБСЛУГОВУВАННІ

🎯 ПОКЛІЄНТСЬКИЙ РЕНТГЕН: ХТО ПРАЦЮЄ З БОТОФЕРМАМИ ТА РОСЗМІ (ЧЕРВОНИЙ КОНТУР ЗГОРИ)

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