Posted on 04/29/2025 5:17:49 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
This analytical article contains documents, analysis and examples of typical sanctions dodging schemes by Russian suppliers of the Russian military-industrial complex.
Here, you will find names of numerous Russian companies and plants involved in sanctions evasion schemes, learn what typical forgeries Russians resort to in invoices and other documents to conceal supply routes and identifying data of suppliers providing access to Western products. This article provides extensive context so that every reader could follow the logic of the investigation and understand how the Russia finds its way around sanctions. This information can come handy to both experts specializing in sanctions and investigative journalists who can conduct their own investigations on sanctions.
Exposing the sanctions evasion schemes and disrupting the logistics of the Russian military-industrial complex makes the Russian army less equipped, which converts into saving the lives of Ukrainian military and civilians and bringing the victory over the aggressor closer.
In March 2025, we published in 14 languages some findings of a high-profile investigation conducted by InformNapalm the international intelligence communitytogether with the Ukrainian hacktivist group 256 Cyber Assault Division.
In this context, let us recall that the operation exposed and disrupted a scheme for the supply of critical sanctioned equipment for the Russian military-industrial complex. The supply scheme was organized by the Russian company EMT.
(Excerpt) Read more at informnapalm.org ...
>>>>It is wrong that you and Zeepers do Nazi your source for the Evil of it’s intent.<<<<
Not all zeepers are stupid. Some of the see it and benefit from it.
That’s unbelievable.
Of course, the “Reverend” has no comment about this propaganda trash she posted (twice!! )
This shows once again what a fanatical Zelensky/Ukie propagandist she really is.
Yep, the first of the month is coming up. There must be some bills due.
“So many Ukrainian warmongers dressed as conservatives and reverends””
You’d think a reverend would be praying for the success of President Trump’s peace effort instead of supporting widening the war, but it would come back and claim it IS praying for peace. Yes, the peace of mass annihilation from a nuclear war with Russia.
Roman Burko
journalist
My name is Roman Burko, I am a journalist, blogger, founder of the international volunteer community InformNapalm and editor-in-chief of InformNapalm.org website.
I was born in Donbas, then moved to Crimea. I studied, lived and worked in Sevastopol. By some quirk of fate both of these Ukrainian regions, which I call my home, are now occupied by the Russian Federation. This had a deep impact on my life, the life of my family and people who are dear to me. We became internally displaced persons (IDPs) - basically, refugees in our own country. Russian aggression pulled us out of the familiar environment, destroyed our normal life, shattered our plans for the future. In early 2014, all these factors predetermined my choice: to take the path of struggle against the occupiers.
But first things first.
Despite the fact that I had spent all my earlier life in the region penetrated with strong ideological influence coming from Russia, I personally took the beginning of Euromaidan protests positively, even with great enthusiasm. In striking contrast, most of my colleagues and acquaintances criticized the Revolution of Dignity, so I built a narrow circle of friends - 3 persons who shared my interests. We would meet and watch broadcasts from Euromaidan together, live through all the events with the protesters, and send parcels with warm clothes to Kyiv for people living in tents 24/7.
Later on these 3 persons became the backbone of the team - of the info-underground, which grew into the international volunteer community InformNapalm.
Yet in January - beginning of February 2014 we did not know the war was coming. This awareness came in the end of February, when after a mass shooting of protesters on the Maidan, Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia. We learned from our friends that Yanukovych escaped through Sevastopol on a Russian Black Sea Fleet warship with the aid of the Russian military. Very soon we realized that Russia had its own plans for Ukraine, and the runaway president was only a small piece of a large-scale special operation.
Suspicious movements of the Black Sea Fleet military personnel, rallies calling for civil disobedience, armed seizure of the buildings of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of Crimea confirmed our suspicion, made everything crystal clear.
I had a keen desire to undermine Russian plans, to prevent the occupation and stop this madness. My first thoughts were, of course, to organize a guerrilla party and engage in real combat. But I had no weapon and no special training. I came to the conclusion it was a dead-end track: even if there is a chance to carry out at least one successful armed operation against Russian soldiers, this will only aggravate the situation. After all, intense Russian propaganda held Crimea in the information ‘cage’ and, at the same time, Russia was very efficient at broadcasting preselected messages to a global audience. Any sporadic armed resistance would be crushed in the bud and presented as a justification for the occupation, quite in line with the Russian tales about the “terrorists from Maidan”. Therefore I had to figure out another way that would inflict real damage and achieve some long-lasting effect.
The solution came unexpectedly but rather quickly. My friends started calling me and telling me about the movements of the Russian soldiers, about the incidents of blocking and seizing of Ukrainian military units. These were both Ukrainian Navy sailors and civilians who happened to witness the events. And it hit me.
I understood that it was vital to inform the world community about the events taking place in Crimea. I thought that this could improve the situation and, most likely, prevent the occupation and war.
I started filming videos with the so-called “little green men” - Russian soldiers hiding their faces under balaclavas and wearing no insignia on their military uniforms. I was posting my videos on YouTube. Other eyewitnesses I stayed in touch with were also sending me their videos.
Livestreams that became so popular during Euromaidan protests in Kyiv were still unusual for Crimea, and technical limitations did not allow me to livestream. So I was filming and then uploading my videos. One of the videos that I uploaded on March 2, 2014 hit almost 2 million views on YouTube in the first 24 hours, now its counter shows 3 million views.
This and other rare videos became the primary sources of information about the events in Crimea for other regions of Ukraine and the whole world. Later I saw them many times in news stories of different TV channels.
This record high number of views made me realize that the outer world desperately needs our videos and that we can break the isolation.
I started posting on Facebook and Twitter, I was asking my readers to translate my notes into different languages and spread this information as much as possible. People were translating my posts and materials and they were getting hundreds and thousands of shares on Internet. My friends from Sevastopol, whom I trusted, joined me at my efforts. A week later, one of my contacts in the Ukrainian military told me that Russian security services were already looking for me and my friends. He said that this information came from a closed channel on Zello push-to-talk walkie-talkie app, which was widely used by the Russians to coordinate the actions of the Cossacks and titushky helping Russian regular troops to seize Crimea.
We decided not to wait until they find us. We stuffed our laptops in our backpacks, added a couple of T-shirts, turned off our cellphones, took out our SIM-cards and disappeared. It was a long trip - we were taking different types of transportation to leave Crimea. However, the next morning we were in Kyiv. Then we immediately went to Lviv, where I knew only one guy who I “met” on social networks. He sheltered us for quite a long time.
In Lviv we continued collecting information remotely - both online and from the phone calls. We kept publishing information, conducted journalist investigations on social networks and encouraged other people to help us. With the help of a programmer from Sevastopol we created a website and decided to call it InformNapalm - a flame of information that burns the lies of the aggressor.
Less than a month on, Russia launched a new round of hybrid war. Ukrainian Donbas was the next to go through the seizure of public buildings and violent unrest. In the beginning everything was very similar to the events that we saw in Crimea. We started to monitor this area, too, and collect the information about Russian military servicemen.
Initially, the main source of information for us was insiders - people who were in the thick of things. They were consciously risking their freedom and their life, and told us what they saw and heard. Later this source faded into insignificance. It got replaced by the OSINT (open source intelligence). At that point the Russians were eagerly sharing tons of valuable proofs - on social networks, in news reports, on Internet forums and in the interviews for Russian journalists. At times we could also gather important evidence from the official documents, registries and obituaries in the public domain.
In the transitional period from the revolution to the war many activists preferred to stay anonymous. Maybe because the sense that the war was not somewhere far away, but everywhere, did not have enough time to blur completely.
People often ask me why I’m still wearing my mask. My Sevastopol and Donbas background is an important reason, but it is not the only one. I think that anonymity is a necessary measure of self-defense when you confront a terrorist state, reveal its secrets and show evidence of its involvement in crimes.
InformNapalm was built by people from different countries of the world: Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, the U.S., Spain, France, Sweden, Belarus, Portugal, and many others.
Everyone did what he / she could on a voluntary basis. Someone was writing his own journalist investigations based on the information from open sources, someone was translating articles into different languages, someone was designing infographics, and someone was assembling videos. This “beehive” effort bore fruit. Within 4 years we have published more than 1,700 investigations demasking the Russian aggression. Many of them are collected in our consolidated database.
Our fight is not over and will continue until Russia leaves the occupied territories - not only in Ukraine, but also in other countries. It is a struggle for truth, justice, and ability to live in a world that has no place for aggression, military occupation and hybrid war.”
Cossacks are on both sides of the Crimean situation. Most of the betrayal of Crimea to Russia, involved Ukrainian military officers’ treason against Ukraine.
Portions of the Ukraine government were betraying Ukraine, since before Russia’s invasion of Georgia. Several citizens of Ukraine, did not waste time in 2008, getting out of eastern Ukraine and fleeing to western-most Ukraine or usually Romania. The Ukraine government was unable, because of its own “civil war within its structure,” to arrange for the increased defense of the country - though some portions of the government did work at that goal.
That portion of the Ukraine government, was amazingly the group that put up a surprising resistance against the Russians. The problem of dealing with the betrayals by the other portion that is self-serving, has yet to be resolved - though some have been captured literally “in the act” of betrayal and jailed.
The Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are rich in old family and ancient tribal feuds. Several “civil warring resentments” within, and upon, which - external parties have sought ways for their own gain, in addition to seeking ways to adjust public perspectives. For example, in fact, “Russian Speaking” DOES NOT mean “being Russian” - but advantage may be taken by promoting the appearance: Russian speaking means being Russian.
Now, despite all the conversation and noise about Russian economics, I do not expect any failure by Putin, to be able to bombard Ukraine. That is part of the reason why, I continue to point toward Germany, where the Germans have delayed for nearly three years, producing the artillery and related material that Ukraine needs.
The bulk of war material that Ukraine needs, has to be delivered by Germany - for Russia to get the point.
“The bulk of war material that Ukraine needs, has to be delivered by Germany - for Russia to get the point.”
Thank you, greatly appreciate your comment
A real reverend would pray for peace.
And mean it.
Thank you, greatly appreciate your comment. 😏
She also excerpted it in an attempt to drive people from FR to that nasty, hacktivist site.
Classic blog-pimping and so not cool.
How characteristic of you to post a memoir penned by a Ukrainian propagandist and NeverTrumper like yourself.
I visited Roman Burko's fb page and found recent posts bashing President Trump. His photo album is very interesting...several nazi inspired pix.
Are all Ukrainians boorish ingrates, "REVEREND"-mommy?
This is from Roman Burko’s X account.
And Mumsie’s pushing his crap on FR. Go figure.
>>>>Oh yeah, this guy’s a Trump-hating, America-hating scumbag.
This is from Roman Burko’s X account.
And Mumsie’s pushing his crap on FR. Go figure.<<<<
Birds of a feather...
The thread was: This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 03/31/2025 12:32:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason: Pulled
The original post is a second attempt to promote the Ukrainian site, as the first attempt was pulled by the moderators..
As to that site:
So one sees that the retired Methodist elder -- who posted Davydov YouTube videos, President of Ukraine statements and the like for years on FR -- is simply continuing her game plan. Propaganda for one side in a war, with the goal, in part, of generating income for those who produce this propaganda.A whois query shows this domain -- informnapalm.org -- was registered in Kyiv Oblast, 2014-03-29 by Name.com, Inc. One observes that its site splash page opens first in Russian first, which is interesting for a Ukrainian domain. The copyright appellation is only updated to 2019, as one sees at the bottom of the page.
Their contact page for English speakers requires email address and such, while the Russian page shows:
"Основатель международного волонтерского сообщества InformNapalm, главный редактор сайтов informnapalm.org и informnapalm.rocks Роман Бурко (facebook, twitter) | Украина |"So one sees -- using machine translation -- that Roman Burko is the first name in their site.They operate a parallel site: https://informnapalm.rocks/
That site was registered by Name.com, Inc. in 2015-12-23 to the same operators in Kyiv.
The Patreon fund-raising detail shows this InformNapalm has only 180 paid members since fund raising began, and one reads: The money raised will cover the costs of maintaining the servers of the InformNapalm website, paying for specialized software, production of non-commercial print materials and multimedia (videos, graphics etc.), to keep on creating the content of public importance. InformNapalm has operated for over 5 years as a purely volunteer community establishing itself as a socially important project for Ukraine."
What is certain -- this is not news for an FR discussion forum about news.
Yes, it’s all quite calculated.
When she gets real busy posting on non-Ukraine threads and getting pious, you know she’s about to unload some awful Ukraine spam. She tries to cover her purpo$e with little distractions like that.
She even tries to pretend she supports President Trump, but she always slips up.
I used to just suspect it, but now I have no doubt that she is being paid to put that nasty, anti-Trump, anti-American, Ukrainian garbage on this forum.
Info on “REVEREND”-mommy’s source, Informnapalm:
INFORMNAPALM AS A UKRAINE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE “SPECIAL PROJECT”
InformNapalm presents itself as a volunteer-run intelligence service. But this is a deception. A Ukrainian Ministry of Defense PowerPoint presentation leaked in 2015 refers to it as a “special project” of the ministry, along with a number of others who themselves stand in need of further investigation.
Corroborating information comes in the form of the identity of the person who registered the domain name informnapalm.org – the aforementioned Vladimir Kolesnikov on March 29 2014, six months before the first of the kill list domains were registered. Kolesnikov is the webmaster of InformNapalm. His Linkedin page describes his involvement with InformNapalm as beginning as a “translator” in February 2014, graduating to System Administrator in March 2014 and DevOps engineer in April 2014. Helpfully Vladimir lists another “volunteering” role from February 2014 with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This role involved: “participation in information operations in the interests of the anti-terrorist operation in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, and assistance in counteraction to information aggression by the Russian Federation.” Myrotvorets is, therefore, a project of InformNaplam which is, in turn, a ”special project” of the Ministry of Defense.
Source: https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/05/21/kievs-journalist-murder-list-originates-with-washington/
Mentioned at the above source is a “kill list” of which “REVEREND”-mommy’s source, Roman Burko, approves. Sen. Rand Paul, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson and other Americans who have spoken against America’s funding of the Ukraine war effort are on this list.
Click here to see the list: https://web.archive.org/web/20221004031714/https://cpd.gov.ua/reports/spikery-yaki-prosuvayut-spivzvuchni-rosijskij-propagandi-naratyvy%EF%BF%BC/
VIDEO
Crimean in Hell: “TV Lies! We Are Cannon Fodder!”
Inform Napalm
4-21-2025
13:56 video length
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-EzSlLrBs
SHOCK INTERVIEW with a captured Russian soldier from Crimea! 🤯 He was apolitical, but the war opened his eyes. Learn how soldiers are used as “bait”, why Crimeans are unhappy after annexation, how TV lies about “Nazis”, why the Russian army are terrorists, and why signing a contract is a ticket to the “meat processing plant”.
VIDEO CHAPTERS:
• 0:38 I, Chitaev Leonid Sergeevich, consent to the interview.
• 0:45 I didn’t care about politics – was digging the garden when RF [Russian Federation] came. Mom told me later.
• 1:26 Plan? “Go there and die.” We were used as bait to check defenses. Meat for commanders.
• 2:43 “Liberated” Crimea: we have no jobs, prices are sky-high. And Russians groan: “We should have invested in ourselves!”
• 4:35 They say “SMO”[Special military operation], but throw us to death like trash, hiding mountains of corpses. What are we dying for?!
• 8:47 Fell for TV lies about “Nazis” and “language”, but here – normal people! Pity the cities, pity I was a fool to go.
• 10:27 They’re not blind – they see civilians! But they hit cities with missiles and lie about “mercenaries”. Terrorists!
• 11:45 “Earnings”? No, a ticket to the meat processing plant (for convicts and us). Zero chances. Are people trash to them?
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