Several Russian political scientists, military experts and military correspondents have received parcels containing plaster busts in the mail. One of the recipients suggested Ukraine might be behind it. The creator of the busts said that the order was placed on social networks by a certain VKontakte user under the pretext of “gifts for the day of volunteers”. What is known about suspicious packages and their contents – in Russian media material.
Suspicious packages
Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov, who lives in Moscow, informed RIA Novosti about receiving a parcel with a bust of Marshal Georgy Zhukov. The expert said it was sent via SDEK.
“I transferred the delivery from the courier to the delivery at the CDEK point, wrote a statement to the police. The package was opened by the police and explosives. <…> The bust was gilded in exactly the same way as the statuette that Vladlen Tatarsky received,” he says.
Military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky died on April 2 following an explosion in the Street Food Bar #1 cafe in St. Petersburg, where a meeting of the Cyber Z Front discussion club was held. During the event, a figurine exploded, which was handed over to Tatarsky by 26-year-old Daria Trepova (Darya Trepova). More than 40 people were injured in the explosion. Trepova was detained and arrested in connection with a terrorist attack case (Article 205 of the Criminal Code, the maximum penalty is 20 years in prison). The FSB said Tatarsky’s murder was organized by Ukrainian special services. According to Mash, the figurine could contain hexogen.
How writing Shot telegram channel, because of a suspicious package, Sivkov called the police. “Sappers did not find explosives in the figurine, but seized the package. Now they are looking for a sender and a customer, ”says the publication. Sivkov himself told Shot that it was of the third suspicious package last month. According to the expert, before that they tried to give him flowers and an unknown object, which he refused to receive.
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In an interview with RIA Novosti, Sivkov said similar messages were sent to “a number of well-known people – a major philosopher, a number of military correspondents and military experts.” He declined to give their names “due to the secrecy of the investigation”.
By information The Baza telegram channel, in addition to Sivkov, military expert Vladislav Shurygin, TASS photojournalist Mikhail Tereshchenko, political strategist Timofey Sergeytsev and Konstantin Isaev received similar packages. Shurygin declared “Pyom” who is not in Moscow and has not received any parcels.
According to Sivkov, the sender of all parcels was the same person, presumably from Ulyanovsk. The expert considered the parcel “an act of intimidation organized by the SBU or the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of Ukraine”.
What was said in the workshop where the busts were made
Plaster busts sent to military commissars and military experts were made in the Barinson sculpture workshop in Ulyanovsk. Its owner, Nikita Barin, said he did not know the customer or the recipients. According to him, a man nicknamed “Sanek Belozerov” approached him with a request to send five parcels. writing “Climb”.
“It’s my practice. I am an entrepreneur, I send goods every day. A man on VKontakte wrote: “Send to five people.” I didn’t even have the faintest idea who it was. It was an order. I just sent it, I didn’t know there would be such a reaction and such news,” Barin said.
BARINSON workshop page on VKontakte
In a conversation with Gazeta.ru, Barin said that the busts were ordered by a certain user on VKontakte as “gifts for Volunteer Day”. According to him, each of the five recipients was asked to send a bust of Marshal Zhukov, and the client allegedly explained this with the desire to give gifts for Volunteer Day (celebrated on December 5).
“I realized it was kind of nonsense, but I didn’t delve into the situation because every day idiots write to me. It was the left page, I drew the left photos. Written before Easter, April 12. And then they started writing to me and to the CDEC that there was resistance, the door wasn’t open. One of the customers generally shouted: “I will only speak Ukrainian with you,” Barin said.
Who exactly was on the list of recipients, according to the sculptor, he does not remember, but all five parcels went to Moscow. The client reportedly asked to send the figurines as soon as possible so that they could reach the recipients before Easter.
How Remarks On the Telegram Shot channel, the profile of the user who placed the order is inactive, “but there are several patriotic reposts about support for the Russian army.” “Sanyok placed an order for 5 addresses. Usually, the workshop asks to pay for the figurines offline, but the customer insisted on paying online,” the post read.
NEWS.ru complaints that a user with the nickname Sanek Belozerov replied to the correspondent of the publication on VKontakte:
“I have little time left, the KGB officers will not hold a ceremony. I explain clearly and once. All these pooches who call themselves war correspondents are liars and provocateurs. For a long time they were allowed to bark and lie about the real situation at the front, where our soldiers, our brothers, are dying … Everyone will pay according to their deeds, let them pray. Luckily, our courier never checks gifts for chemicals. They weren’t the first and won’t be the last. Everything is just beginning“wrote the internet user.
At the time of this publication, law enforcement has not commented on reports of suspicious busts.
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