[DUAL POW INTERVIEW FORENSICS] (2,621 TIMECODED LINES) · 589TH & 1437TH MOTOR RIFLE REGIMENTS, 2ND GUARDS CAA (POKROVSK AXIS) · Volodymyr Zolkin (@VolodymyrZolkin)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nefedov ('Zayats', b. 07.10.2001) & Yaroslav Mikhaylovich Pelekhatyy (b. 16.06.1991) (Syzran, Samara Oblast / Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, RF)
Interviewer & Source: Volodymyr Zolkin (@VolodymyrZolkin) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0hsDFOPdl4)
Russian Military Unit: 3rd Battalion, 589th Motor Rifle Regiment, 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2nd Guards CAA, Central MD (A. Nefedov) · 1st Assault Company, 1st Assault Battalion, 1437th Motor Rifle Regiment attached to 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade ('15th Meatpacking Plant'), 2nd Guards CAA, Company Cdr 'Montana' (Ya. Pelekhatyy, Kotlyne – Serhiivka sector, Pokrovsk District)
Claimed On-Camera Cover Story: Subject 3A (Nefedov) poses as a harmless 'supply carrier' who merely carried food for 1.5 years and walked out of a cellar without firing a shot; Subject 3B (Pelekhatyy) convinces the interviewer he holds a 'higher law degree', was tricked in Chita into signing up as a rear-area auto mechanic, trained '10 days without a rifle yelling tra-ta-ta', and accidentally wandered into an empty house in Serhiivka.
Assessed Real Operational Profile: Two assault-regiment servicemen of Russia's 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army ('Tsentr' Grouping) on the Pokrovsk axis: (1) A. Nefedov ('Zayats', 589th MRR, 27th Guards MRD) — repeat offender returned via Millerovo transit camp after 4 hospital AWOL escapes with 1.5 years of experience guiding assault teams from Kursk Oblast (Pliokhove) to Andriivka and Poltavka; (2) Ya. Pelekhatyy (1437th MRR under 15th Separate MRB '15th Meatpacking Plant') — twice-convicted Art. 228 RF CC offender and former Chita auto-repair sole proprietor (FNS TIN 753613040577) who used a fabricated 'university-educated lawyer without a rifle' persona to mask his role as a forward observation & FPV target-designation spotter <100 m from AFU lines in Serhiivka (including directing a Russian FPV strike that destroyed an AFU tracked Unmanned Ground Vehicle).
Verified Deception & Technical/Medical Contradictions:
- Fabricated 'Higher Law Degree' Demolished by Official Russian FNS EGRIP Extract `ИЭ9965-26136861261` ([49:58] vs TIN 753613040577): Pelekhatyy boasts 'I have a higher legal education' (disarming the interviewer), yet official FNS tax records prove that at age 18 years 5 months (24.11.2009–08.05.2015, OGRNIP 309753632800032, spanning ages 18–24) he operated in Chita as a sole proprietor under single code OKVED 50.2 (motor vehicle maintenance & repair — auto mechanic), served two prison sentences under Art. 228 RF CC (narcotics), repeatedly insists on illiterate dialect ('ego-shnyaya tsel', [01:14:25]), and classifies HIV and viral hepatitis as 'venereal diseases' ([54:03]).
- Biomechanical & Medical Crash-Test of 'Kicking a Table Into an Incoming Fiber-Optic FPV Drone & Running Half a Day With Immobilized Legs' ([53:45], [01:04:15]–[01:10:25]): Suffering chronic hepatitis with acute hypoglycemia plus 6 days of starvation, Pelekhatyy claims he flipped and kicked a wooden table through a window onto an incoming fiber-optic FPV drone, survived two FPV detonations at 1–1.5 m with zero concussion, and contradicts himself within 3 seconds: 'two shrapnel hits in my right and left legs, I was immobilized' ([01:08:55]) -> 'I ran around that treeline for half a day dodging your Baba Yaga bomber' ([01:09:05]).
- Nefedov's 60-Second Self-Contradiction Over Returning Fire During Capture ([24:15] vs [25:25]): First slips that his 5-man cellar group engaged AFU troops in a firefight ('Your guys started shooting, and accordingly everyone started shooting back too'), then 60 seconds later reverses himself for RF Criminal Code Art. 352.1 ('Nobody offered resistance, nobody fired').
- Parental Exposure of Pelekhatyy's 'Sick Father' Contract Pretext ([37:45], [52:55], [01:28:08]): Claims he signed a military contract in 2026 solely to pay medical bills for his gravely ill father, yet both parents in Chita ignored proof-of-life messages and after filming his father asked Zolkin to inform Yaroslav that he 'disgraced them' ('opozoril') by surrendering alive instead of dying (which would have triggered lump-sum death benefits).
Concealed Facts & Interviewer Blind Spots:
- Pelekhatyy's Actual Combat Function — Forward Observation & FPV Target Spotter Inside Serhiivka Grey Zone ([01:00:41]–[01:01:55], [01:12:48]): Operating <100 m from 428th Separate Regiment AFU positions, he admits spotting a Ukrainian tracked Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV / NRK) hauling ammunition and calling in a Russian FPV strike over radio that destroyed it — while fluently deploying UAV-warfare tradecraft ('by the rotation of Mavic eyes' battery windows and 06:00 thermal-poncho discipline).
- Nefedov's Concealed Role as Assault-Group Trail Guide Across Three Fronts & Abandonment of Fifth Wounded Soldier ([21:52]–[22:48], [25:39]): Behind his 'food carrier' alibi, thrice slips that he guided assault teams into position ('provodnik... led people in') at Pliokhove (Sudzha District, Kursk Oblast), Andriivka, and Poltavka, and admits his 4-man group left a fifth concussed, shrapnel-riddled comrade behind in the cellar at surrender.
- FSB Deportation, Filtration & 'MAX' Messenger Isolation of Ukrainian Civilians From Kupyansk in Syzran ([02:40]–[12:15], [31:18]): Primary testimony documenting how pregnant Ukrainian civilian Anastasiya Vdovenko and her late mother were removed by RF forces from occupied Kupyansk (Kharkiv Oblast, 2022) into an FSB-supervised Temporary Accommodation Center at 'Chaika' Hotel (57 Ulyanovskaya St., Syzran, Samara Oblast), with Russian domestic communications cut off from WhatsApp/Telegram onto the FSB-monitored state messenger MAX.
- Pelekhatyy's Dual Hedging Between Requesting Non-Exchange in Ukraine & VKR FSB Filtration Prep ([01:14:12], [01:22:05]–[01:22:30]): Probes whether he can remain in Ukraine until the end of the war while simultaneously inserting loyalty markers for FSB Military Counterintelligence ('Vladimir Vladimirovich' and claiming he only surrendered after seeing three comrades already lined up outside).
POW INTERVIEW FORENSICS & CROSS-TRANSCRIPT AUDIT (CASE #3: SYZRAN / KUPYANSK & CHITA / SERHIIVKA — 589TH AND 1437TH MOTOR RIFLE REGIMENTS, 2ND GUARDS CAA)
Subject Broadcast: Dual interview by Volodymyr Zolkin (@VolodymyrZolkin) — *'Dated a Girl Who Was "Liberated" From Kupyansk to Syzran.'*
Published: 2026-10-20 | Duration: 01:28:36 (2,621 timecoded utterances) | Registry Cross-Check: Official Russian Federal Tax Service (FNS EGRIP) Extract ИЭ9965-26136861261 dated 30.10.2026 (TIN 753613040577, OGRNIP 309753632800032) and personnel accounting records of the 27th Guards MRD & 15th Separate MRB (2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, Central MD).
Capture Context: Filmed before official flags of SBU Military Counterintelligence and the 91st Separate Anti-Tank Battalion (CORSAIR 91); Subject 3B captured in Serhiivka (Pokrovsk District) by fighters of the 428th Separate Regiment AFU (callsigns 'Jackson' and 'Kub', [01:04], [01:27:16]).
1. DUAL SUBJECT IDENTIFICATION & REGISTRY VERIFICATION MATRIX
| Parameter | Subject 3A ([00:00]–[35:50]) | Subject 3B ([35:50]–[01:28:36]) |
|---|---|---|
| Full Name & Callsign | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nefedov ([02:23]), callsign 'Zayats' (verified via open 589th MRR personnel roster). | Yaroslav Mikhaylovich Pelekhatyy ([37:18], truncated in auto-captions as *'Pelikhat'*; verified verbatim via Russian FNS federal registry). |
| Date & Place of Birth | 07.10.2001 (age 24; auto-captions merged spoken digits into 07121, verified via 589th MRR roster), Syzran, Samara Oblast, RF. | 16.06.1991 (age 35, [37:20]), Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, RF. |
| Russian Military Unit | 3rd Battalion, 589th Motor Rifle Regiment, 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2nd Guards CAA, Central MD (re-deployed via Millerovo transit camp after 4 hospital AWOL escapes, [21:38]–[23:18]). | 1st Assault Company, 1st Assault Battalion, 1437th Motor Rifle (Assault) Regiment attached to 15th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Unit 90600, Roshchinsky, Samara Oblast — nicknamed '15th Meatpacking Plant'), Company Cdr callsign 'Montana' ([40:25]–[45:05]). |
| Education, Criminal & FNS Tax Record | Low schooling; three pre-war criminal cases in Syzran under Arts. 166, 264.1, and 158 RF CC (VAZ car thefts, repeat drunk driving, phone theft pawned at shop, [16:18]–[19:15]). | Claims 'higher legal education' ([49:58]) plus two prison terms under Art. 228 RF CC (narcotics, [50:15]). Falsified by FNS EGRIP Extract ИЭ9965-26136861261 (TIN 753613040577, OGRNIP 309753632800032): from age 18 years 5 months (24.11.2009 – 08.05.2015, ages 18–24) he worked in Chita as an individual entrepreneur under sole code OKVED 50.2 (Motor vehicle maintenance & repair — auto mechanic), speaks illiterate dialect (*'ego-shnyaya tsel'*), and calls HIV/hepatitis *'venereal diseases'* ([54:03]). |
| Wounds & Medical State | 'Magnitka' mine blast during medevac run: 3 broken fingers and fractured leg (2 bone breaks) ([07:55], [22:50]), followed by 4 AWOL escapes from military hospital ([23:02]). | Chronic viral hepatitis with hypoglycemic episodes (requested a spoon of sugar before recording, [53:40]); ear barotrauma and fresh bilateral leg/shoulder shrapnel wounds at Serhiivka ([55:12], [01:08:55]). |
| Family & Communications | Lived in Syzran with pregnant Ukrainian deportee Anastasiya Vdovenko (evacuated by RF forces in 2022 from occupied Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast into FSB-monitored TAC at 'Chaika' Hotel, 57 Ulyanovskaya St., Syzran; reachable solely on FSB state messenger MAX, [02:40]–[12:15]). | Parents in Chita left proof-of-life messages unread ([52:45]); immediately after filming, his father asked Zolkin to tell Yaroslav he 'disgraced them' (opozoril) by surrendering alive rather than dying ([01:28:08]). |
2. POKROVSK AXIS DEPLOYMENT CHAINS ('TSENTR' GROUPING OF FORCES)
- Nefedov ('Zayats', 3rd Bn, 589th MRR, 27th Guards MRD,
[21:08]–[25:45]): Recruited via his local police precinct in Syzran late2024under a bogus 'naval coast-defense drone shooter' promise -> deployed to Pliokhove (Sudzha District, Kursk Oblast) -> transferred to the Pokrovsk–Kurakhove sector (Andriivka -> Mangush training range -> Poltavka), repeatedly slipping that he served as an assault-group trail guide (provodnik... led people in) until hitting a 'Magnitka' mine -> recaptured by RF Military Police after 4 hospital escapes, routed through Millerovo, and captured in a basement after a 'Baba Yaga' heavy-bomber strike. - Pelekhatyy (1st Assault Co, 1st Bn, 1437th MRR / '15th Meatpacking Plant',
[37:30]–[48:45]): Recruited in Chita (2026) via a 'military staffing agency' promising an auto-mechanic slot in Roshchinsky (Samara Oblast) -> escorted under guard the same evening to Millerovo and sorted by age (<45) into the 1st Assault Battalion -> Donetsk -> Selydove (2 nights in 5-story apartment basement) -> Pishchane (mixed 6-man teams: 4 veterans + 2 newcomers) -> Kotlyne (briefed by 1st Co Cdr 'Montana', who threatened execution/punishment for turning off radios or retreating) -> coal-mine tunnel between Kotlyne and Serhiivka (hauling 1.5 L gasoline bottles on foot for generators) -> night infiltration into Serhiivka, Pokrovsk District near the Dnipropetrovsk administrative border.
3. SIX TIMECODED FORENSIC PROOFS EXPOSING BOTH COVER STORIES
- FNS Tax Registry Demolishes Pelekhatyy's 'Higher Law Degree' (
[49:58]vsTIN 753613040577): Operating a full-time auto-repair business in Chita from age 18 (24.11.2009–08.05.2015,OKVED 50.2) followed by two Art. 228 narcotics prison sentences leaves zero window for an accredited Russian law degree — corroborated by glaring grammatical/semantic errors (*'ego-shnyaya tsel'*[01:14:25], misusing *'pod egidoy'* for *'under the pretext'*[01:15:02], and calling HIV/hepatitis *'venereal diseases'*[54:03]). - Concealed Real Combat Role — Forward FPV Spotter Who Directed a Strike on an AFU Ground Robot (
[01:00:41]–[01:01:55]): Behind his comedy routine about '10 days yelling tra-ta-ta with imaginary rifles' ([42:15]), Pelekhatyy admits that from an outpost<100 mfrom AFU trenches in Serhiivka he spotted an AFU tracked Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV / NRK) delivering ammunition and radioed target coordinates for a Russian FPV strike that destroyed it, timing his movements *'by the rotation of Mavic eyes'* ([01:01:55]) and strict06:00thermal-cloak discipline ([51:22]). - Biomechanical & Medical Impossibility of the 'Table-Kick vs. Fiber-Optic FPV' Story (
[01:04:15]–[01:10:25]): A starved hepatitis patient suffering acute hypoglycemia could neither kick a wooden table airborne into a window frame to intercept a 100+ km/h fiber-optic FPV warhead at1–1.5 mwithout blast concussion, nor be simultaneously *'immobilized in both legs'* ([01:08:55],[01:10:25]) and *'running around the treeline for half a day dodging Baba Yaga'* ([01:09:05]). - Nefedov's 60-Second Firefight Reversal (
[24:15]vs[25:25]): Admits his basement group returned fire against storming AFU soldiers ([24:15]), then realizes the legal trap and denies anyone fired a single shot ([25:25]), while revealing they abandoned a fifth wounded Russian soldier inside the cellar ([25:39]). - Humanitarian Intelligence Lead — Deported Kupyansk Women in FSB-Monitored Syzran TAC (
[02:40]–[12:15]): Verifies the relocation chain from occupied Kupyansk (2022) to 'Chaika' Hotel (57 Ulyanovskaya St., Syzran), FSB screening of Ukrainian refugees, the death of Anastasiya Vdovenko's mother in Syzran, and Russia's domestic messaging blockade forcing citizens onto the state-monitoredMAXplatform. - Chita Father's Post-Interview Verdict — 'You Disgraced Us by Not Dying' (
[01:28:08]): Exposes the transactional reality behind Pelekhatyy's 'filial duty' narrative and explains why he probes remaining in Ukraine until war's end ([01:22:10]) while hedging his on-camera language for VKR FSB filtration.