[COMMANDER 'SHEPOT' WIPES OUT 17 OF 18 MEN OVERNIGHT + RF OFFICER/SOLDIER SELF-SHOOTINGS] (1,528 TIMECODED LINES) · 'KUZMINKA' – 'SUZHINKA' RANGE PIPELINE (AUG 2026) · Volodymyr Zolkin (@VolodymyrZolkin, interviewer Mariya)
Aleksey Andreyevich (b. 25.08.1983, YouTube ASR surname prefix: 'Saf') (Vladimir – Nizhny Novgorod Regional Contour (+7-920 prefix, Kovrov conscript training center), RF)
Interviewer & Source: Volodymyr Zolkin (@VolodymyrZolkin, interviewer Mariya) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzpH6sgiiE)
Russian Military Unit: Southern MD assault detachment (route: Mariupol 01.08.2026 -> Kuzminka Military Range, Rostov Oblast, 14 days with zero live firing -> 'Suzhinka' forward staging camp; assault commander callsign 'Shepot', associate 'Shaman', escort officer Lieutenant 'Kaban / Zdorovyy')
Claimed On-Camera Cover Story: Portrays himself as an 'honest builder and electrician whose three Art. 158 RF CC convictions for stealing power tools were merely righteous payback against non-paying employers', who bolted 5 km through woods and swamps when police cut off his ankle monitor on 28.07.2026, was beaten for two days into signing a contract on 30.07.2026, never fired a single round on Kuzminka range or in combat, survived 17 of 18 comrades being wiped out overnight plus a misfire of his own grenade fuze, and walked into an AFU dugout with a clean unfired rifle.
Assessed Real Operational Profile: 43-year-old construction laborer and plumber from the Vladimir–Nizhny Novgorod contour (+7-920 family mobile prefix, 2001–2003 Kovrov mechanic-driver conscript MOS; ex-wife Nadezhda, 20-year-old son Yegor) and three-time Art. 158 RF CC offender who on 28–30.07.2026 — after fleeing 5 km when his FSIN ankle bracelet was cut off and being recaptured near his mother's garages — was beaten by police and military personnel into signing a contract and rushed within 16 days via Mariupol and Rostov's Kuzminka Range (0 training shots fired) to 'Suzhinka' camp under Commander 'Shepot' and 'Shaman'. His testimony provides primary proof of 94.4% single-night assault wipeouts (17 of 18 killed) and an epidemic of Russian self-mutilation and battlefield suicide (Lieutenant 'Kaban' blowing up his hand with a grenade fuze before deployment, Aleksey's own misfired grenade-fuze attempt, and soldier 'Malyok' shooting himself in the head on a trench parapet).
Verified Deception & Technical/Medical Contradictions:
- Defensive Rationalization of Three Repeat Art. 158 RF CC Power-Tool Burglaries as 'Righteous Employer Payback' ([06:20]–[08:25], [12:15]–[16:45]): Claims all three power-tool theft cases (pre-2010, a 2 yr 7 mo colony-settlement sentence in 2023, and a 2026 electronic ankle bracelet) merely recouped unpaid RUB 150k wages, while admitting he twice stole tools belonging to unrelated third-party property owners amid drinking relapses and a 2026 criminal apartment dispute.
- 30-Second Collapse of the 'Good Tsar Putin Doesn't Know' Reflex ([29:04]–[29:35] vs [29:38]–[30:30], [34:45]–[36:25]): First appeals directly to the Kremlin ('Vladimir Vladimirovich, restore order, it seems you don't know how they beat and humiliate us!'), then after a single follow-up question from Mariya immediately reverses himself — stating Putin 'overstayed his chair, went mad with fat, knows everything, and decided to wipe out half Russia's male population to rule more easily'.
- Contradiction Between Longstanding Awareness of Kremlin Dictatorship & Staying Under Ankle-Bracelet Police Control Until Capture ([36:30]–[43:45], [01:01:10]–[01:01:55]): Stopped visiting Crimea after 2014 due to occupation prices and hostility, sheltered a 34-year-old Ukrainian refugee for 6 months, and watched the FSB throw an acquaintance into total SIZO isolation for one anti-war post — yet remained on police probation until his violent abduction on 28.07.2026.
Concealed Facts & Interviewer Blind Spots:
- Ankle-Bracelet Police Abduction Conveyor (28–30.07.2026) & 'Petushatnik / Pochyosy' Abuse Regime at Kuzminka Range ([18:30]–[28:55], [44:15]–[47:55], [01:12:27]): Documents police cutting off FSIN ankle bracelets at draft gates (5-km forest chase, 'Intercept' ambush at garages, 2 days of groin/body beatings); none of the 14 men in his Gazelle van were paid volunteers (AWOL detainees, police captives, a civilian doctor threatened with prison, and men 'who fell asleep on a park bench and woke up contracted'), while at Kuzminka Range military police guarded them tighter than a prison camp, beat them for saying 'Good morning' ('go wake your petushatnik', slur 'pochyosy'), served brominated tea, fired zero training rounds, and shot escapees with assault rifles.
- Triple Self-Mutilation & Battlefield Suicide Record Within One Group — Lieutenant 'Kaban', Soldier 'Malyok', and Aleksey Himself ([48:18]–[56:12]): (1) Freshly returned from leave, career Lieutenant 'Kaban / Zdorovyy' postponed his evening exit, blew up his own hand overnight with a grenade fuze (`zapal`), and cheerfully evacuated at dawn ('Good luck, boys, I'm rolling back!'); (2) next morning under rain, Aleksey applied one of his 6 tourniquets to his arm, unscrewed a grenade fuze, and pulled the pin at arm's length — surviving only because the fuze double-clicked without main detonation; (3) young comrade 'Malyok', driven forward by 'Shepot's' radio curses, ran 1 km ahead and shot himself through the head sitting on a trench edge.
- Single-Night Annihilation of 17 Out of 18 Men (94.4%) Under Commander 'Shepot' & Plea Not to Be Exchanged Back to Russia ([31:28]–[34:18], [45:40], [50:15], [57:12], [01:02:55]–[01:12:25]): Exposes standing orders forbidding aid to wounded comrades ('let him die, keep moving forward') and 'Shepot' marching 18 untrained men across open fields into a kill-zone under the lie 'our troops are already there'; blown skyward by a heavy drone TM-62 mine drop, Aleksey surrendered his clean unfired rifle with full magazines to AFU soldier Sergey and twice begged on camera to stay and work in a Ukrainian POW camp rather than be exchanged back into 'that hell'.
POW INTERVIEW FORENSICS & COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AUDIT (CASE #11: ALEKSEY ANDREYEVICH — KUZMINKA & SUZHINKA RANGES, COMMANDER 'SHEPOT' WIPING OUT 17 OF 18 ASSAULT TROOPS IN ONE NIGHT, LIEUTENANT 'KABAN'S' GRENADE-FUZE SELF-MUTILATION, AND SOLDIER 'MALYOK'S' TRENCH SUICIDE)
Primary Broadcast & Regional Contour Verification:
- Source Broadcast: Volodymyr Zolkin Channel (
@VolodymyrZolkin, interviewer Mariya) — *'Commander "Shepot" Zeroed 18 Men in One Night, and He Tried to Blow Himself Up With a Grenade.'* - Published:
2026-10-11(filmed shortly after subject's 43rd birthday on25.08.2026,[01:04:22]) | Duration:01:15:08(1,528timecoded Innertube utterances). - Capture Contour: Sole survivor out of
18assault riflemen driven blind across open fields by Commander 'Shepot' (and partner 'Shaman') in late August 2026; after his own grenade fuze misfired during a self-mutilation/suicide attempt, walked into an AFU dugout and handed an unfired clean rifle with full magazines to Ukrainian soldier Sergey ([32:30]–[34:15],[50:15]–[57:55]).
1. SUBJECT PROFILE & FORCE-RECRUITMENT TIMELINE (28.07 – AUG 2026)
- Transparent Identity Accounting: Aleksey Andreyevich,
b. 25.08.1983([01:38]–[01:42],[01:04:22]; YouTube ASR clipped spoken surname as'Saf'; per our strict evidentiary standard we record verified identifiers without guessing unverified letters): 2001–2003 conscript mechanic-driver trained at Kovrov ([04:30]), ex-wife Nadezhda, 20-year-old student son Yegor ([05:45]), family mobile prefix+7 920(Vladimir / Nizhny Novgorod Oblast capacity,[01:06:20]). - Ankle-Bracelet Escape & Two-Day Beating (
28–30.07.2026,[18:30]–[22:45]): Under FSIN electronic ankle-bracelet supervision on a third Art. 158 RF CC power-tool theft case, Aleksey refused police demands to sign a contract (preferring 5 years in prison[18:45]). Taken to a collection checkpoint on28.07.2026, he bolted into forests and marshes the instant officers cut off his bracelet (outlasting a 5-km police chase), hopped a bus, and hiked back to town — only to be ambushed at garages when asking his mother for clothes, beaten across the body and groin on28–29.07by police and troops, forced to sign on30.07.2026, and loaded that night into a 14-man Gazelle van containing zero willing volunteers. - Mariupol -> Kuzminka Range -> Suzhinka (
01.08 – mid-Aug 2026,[25:42]–[31:45]): Crossed via Mariupol on01.08.2026to Rostov Oblast's Kuzminka Military Range for 14 days of zero rifle training (instructors shot off ammo allowances themselves), brominated tea, military-police lockup, daily beatings (*'petushatnik'*, *'pochyosy'*), and rifle shootings of attempted escapees ([01:12:27]).
2. TRIPLE SELF-SHOOTING EPIDEMIC & 'SHEPOT'S' 17-OF-18 MASSACRE
- Lieutenant 'Kaban' Blows Up His Own Hand With a Grenade Fuze (
[48:18]–[49:50]): Riding in the UAZ van to the front, career Lieutenant 'Kaban / Zdorovyy' (fresh back from leave and aware of the slaughter ahead) deferred his evening march to morning, vanished overnight, detonated a grenade fuze (zapal) in his own hand, and strolled back bandaged and smiling: *'Good luck, boys, I'm rolling back!'* - 17 of 18 Killed Overnight (
94.4%) & Misfired Self-Detonation ([33:30]–[34:15],[50:15]–[53:05]): Told the lie *'our men hold the point ahead'*,18men were driven by 'Shepot' across open fields where 17 died (*'corpse upon corpse, an entire treeline of corpses'*). At dawn, Aleksey strapped a tourniquet onto his arm, unscrewed a grenade fuze, and pulled the pin at arm's length — surviving two faint primer clicks without detonation. - Soldier 'Malyok's' Suicide on a Trench Parapet & Plea to Stay in Camp (
[54:25]–[57:55],[01:02:58]): Ignoring Aleksey's plea to wait for daylight because 'Shepot' was cursing him over radio, young soldier 'Malyok' ran 1 km ahead and shot himself through the head on a trench edge (*'rifle covered in blood, skull blown out behind him'*). Concussed by a heavy drone TM-62 drop, Aleksey surrendered his unfired rifle to AFU soldier Sergey, publicly called 'Shepot' an executioner on air ([30:55],[34:17]), and begged not to be exchanged back to Russia.
