Talk:CyberBerkut

Holocaust in Dnepropetrovsk
Valentina Lisitsa on Twitter:
 * ''A "mini-Holocaust" they called it in Kolomoysky clan. Leaked emails explain why Israel cancelled Ukraine arms deal. http://pic.twitter.com/EUvIImWhEk
 * ''The leak is obviously from "enemy camp" - in election campaign we will see many juicy things coming up. It will not make news because stuff like this is a subject of negotiations. The report that "Israel stopped the deal bcs Russia was unhappy" means Russian side probably said "You ship arms - we air grieving relatives of those 19 killed, you have a major PR problem at home" and both sides come to mutual understanding,  agree, shake hands and part. Human lives are but pawns in this game.

Leaked email translated and posted as picture. Kolomoisy, Parasyuk, Odessa mentioned.

The whole cache seems to be here, including letters from the IMF. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 19:11, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Взломан ящик Филатова. Подробности переписки "Холокост по-днепропетровски" (Hacked box Filatov. Details of correspondence "Holocaust in Dnepropetrovsk")

Contradictory news from Odessa
Contradictory reports from Odessa, 7.10.2014

Mikhail Maiman is reported to claim more that 20 beatings of Jews by the Right Sector, in Suvorov district of Odessa, in the 1 month period.

Another source claims this to be a "blatant lie". Right sector is reported to deny
 * Right Sector is reported to comment "If you are ready to fight with internal and external enemies of Ukraine, ethnicity, religion, etc do not matter"  (this is  plausible, as those guys would have trouble to figure out who is who, they may just happen to me mostly jewish). Even if Right Sector is an 'equal opportunity  harasser',  this still would be a problem. It appears that police is passive, and order is maintained by Right Sector

'Press secretary of Jewish Society of Ukraine Berl Kapulkin' is reported to say that 'Mikhail Maiman is not a member, (and actually, may not even exist)'

Mikhail Maiman is reported to say that an appeal to World Jewish Congress in New York will be made 'next week' demanding that Right Sector is disarmed. --Resup (talk) 03:46, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

HELP I'm LOST HERE

 * ''Moved from Talk:Ukraine war casualties

sorry, we can kill this later.

Guys are we on the same planet with Ukraine??

Someone just posted on Saker a link to allegedly hacked emails to/from staff of Kolomoisky.
 * The Holocaust in Dnepropetrovsk Style – Slavyangrad.org, 2014/10/05

problems with death of one Garik Zylberbord which honestly I don't recall seeing before

problems with being maybe betrayed by "famous" Sektor leader Volodymyr Parasyuk  who there is something horribly fake about, eved if the emails story is not true, claims to have been captured, moved to 3 or 4 places INCLUDING RUSSIA and ESCAPED unharmed.... all in 2 days
 * The incredible story of Volodymyr Parasyuk’s salvation – Sergey Naumovych, EuromaidanPR, September 2, 2014

about as credible as this little propaganda piece from him a while back
 * VOLODYMYR PARASYUK: Captured traitor tells all – Volodymyr Parasyuk, EuromaidanPR, 07.23.2014

Guy is phoney trough and through. But.... what brand of phoney? I don't know about the emails, right or wrong, except they had this info in them which has not been anywhere else apart from his facebook and 1 translation.

How is this playing out? it is so twisted there I am going seriously dizzy and wondering what planet is it on? is any of this real? is it someone from Mars pretending to be CIA pretending to be NR pretending to have hacked a Jew running a Nazi death squad? wwwwaaaaaa!

The 37 killed seems a reference to one of the recent mass graves unearthed...

HELP KatKan (talk) 12:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC)


 * That leak must be a couple of days/weeks old, I've read the mails before. Can't remember where. This guy Kolomoiski is really like some super-villain from the comic books. Just yesterday I've read that there is a campaign among influential Jews to kick him out of their organizations, so maybe there is something to the "upset in Israel" talked about in the mails. Funny: The European Jewish Parliament is an organization founded by Kolomoiski himself. --CE (talk) 13:39, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * and I never saw it??? wow. OK. Good they want to kick him out. What if they take his citizenship, too? he'll end up having to go live in Cyprus. They could look at what the others are doing too, while they're there. At least 4 of former Odessa (Jewish) mayor's close staff were actively involved in the Odessa fire.  Thanks, CE, for calming me down a bit, now I can go back to finding a few more of those rats. KatKan (talk) 14:43, 6 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Checked my newsfeed folder but only found out that it had to have been before September 24, as that was the last time I deleted the stuff there... and some creative googling showed me that it made the rounds a day earlier, as such things happen. But only in English, the leak itself has already been on September 16. Then on September 23 "Cyber Riot Novorossiya" published an English narration on facebook. Some other interesting stuff on their page there. According to this story based on other leaks, my beloved Chancelloress has developed a scheme pressuring weaker EU countries into buying Ukrainian steel at grossly inflated prices to fill Kievs coffers... --CE (talk) 16:18, 6 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I am too tired to dig things but it as a possibly related entry, it was reported that K*** threatened Tsarev, Russia-friendly politician, as I recall, to blame some Jewish death on him. That upset some other jewish folks and they were very seriously pissed off by this reported behavior. I do not want to put any warranty of any of that actually happened. I do not want to get into any of that, actually --Resup (talk) 14:59, 6 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I remember some leaked phone call between the two as well. --CE (talk) 16:18, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Phone call was K telling T there's a $million price on his head for something or another, supporting Donbass I think.KatKan (talk) 18:33, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ...which T considered and decided to not get pissed off...--Resup (talk) 18:58, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * on ethnic side, there is a very strong and unusual condemnation ( “We have our own rascals, just as any other people. K is precisely such a type,” Kogan said). If he did something wrong, should be held responsible --Resup (talk) 20:08, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I have moved the thread to this page and to this section as the leak was already discussed here on September 16th. (Use the Special:RecentChanges to see what is happening on other pages.) -- Petri Krohn (talk) 00:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Kolomoiskii reads russvesna.su to get his news about 2 days before the best Ukrainian news about the conflict in Donbas. Recently he gave some 2 hour interview, apparently a short segment of it is linked. He has self-contradictory message that (1) because of the war, news should be censored (this is what he appears to say in the beginning of the clip), but (2) how Ukranian media can be trusted if it reports with at least 2 day delay what is available on russvesna.

Yesterday, there was Ukr report that UAF at Donetsk airport repelled all terrorist attacks. (The truth is likely that there are still UAF underground, and Novorossia cannot move equipment to the airport, because they will be shelled from Peski. So it is still somewhat contested, but not like it is controlled by UAF who repels all terrorists. And what's ultimately the point of Ukrainian media ill-coverage? Delay the obvious? --Resup (talk) 12:53, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Kolomoiskii interview, 27.09.2014 no-nonsense (e.g. around 47.59 explains why for somebody in high government decentralization would appear unattractive, for money/greed reasons). Chooses presentation to appear to care about people in Novorossia. Too long to watch or translate in full, maybe interesting bits are picked by some commentators elsewhere. --Resup (talk) 13:38, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

I think that for ukr.op. media to have any credibility, the media-et-all magnate Mr. Kolomoyskii shall provide his commentary to the video shot in his own backyard, explaining numbers 6350-6554 on the graves in particular, as well as why there are many open pits, etc. And I hope the video will not disappear, also. --Resup (talk) 14:14, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * But it dissappeared. (WTF?) --Resup (talk) 07:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Russian sources, including Cassad, give links without explaining or commenting, like with shrug of shoulders, to this video, Philip Ekoziants (Филипп Экозьянц-VK) (He appears to be well-known in Kharkov singer (romance songs), and recently announced Kharkov partisans responsibility for blowing up train wagons carrying fuel at Sheblinka station. That was done in a very dramatic, stylistically similar video adressed to Anton Gerashenko with details published on social networks one hour before the train exploded. That was said to kill none and save lives of Ukrainian soldiers delayed on their way to ATO.   Do not know him otherwise; apparently treated with respect, but do not know any more background). In the video, Philip, in a drmatic voice, gives us an urgent message that recent rumors of Benya K. giving up and leaving are untrue, and what is true is that he is busy preparing private army of Western mercenaries, advisers, and weapons. And so soon they brush aside current spectacle, take over, and Ukraine will be finished and all of fellow Ukrainians will no longer be needed and  will hang or something. This is probably seriously exaggerated, because successfully doing something like that requires Iraq-scale investment. Hiring Academi may protect a factory but not win heavy-weapons war. On the other hand some anti-Poroshenko line is fairly obvious, so something may go on in the background. Putting it here as do not see translations or discussions of that video. --Resup (talk) 15:14, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * And Anton Gerashenko is that same MOI adviser who broke the news about MH17 shot by separatists and immediately picked up by Ukraine and the West...--Resup (talk) 16:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Looked more into this and got even more skeptical. There is some long-going religious-type dispute/controversy, with (A) Philip Ekoziants (  orthodox christian ) + Eduard Hodos (Эдуард Ходос), who is  reform Judaism, ex- Lubavitch-Chabad, and currently pro-orthodox christian on one side, and (B) Benya K and friends like Yarosh --viewed as Lubavitch-Chabad for whatever reason by (A). All of that is seriously out of bounds, and I see no reason to run with any of that stuff. I see this type of thing on Saker in off-putting quantities already, but here this sort of thing is taken to the very extreme. --Resup (talk) 06:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Avakov–McNeely prank call
Should this be filed under leaks?
 * US General promises help to Ukraine in a prank call – RT, October 10, 2014
 * ''A high-ranking US general has promised Ukraine to help equip its National Guard in a call made by a Russian prankster who pretended to be Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
 * ''Prankster Vladimir Krasnov and unsuspecting US Brig. Gen. Kevin McNeely discussed the problems concerning the Ukraine crisis and the possibility of military and financial aid to Ukraine, LifeNews reports. Krasnov asked about Ukrainian aid requests. According to General McNeely the Pentagon may equip “four companies and one battalion headquarters” of National Guard.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 20:46, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Pranks aside, it was officially reported in Russian press that USA does not plan to send lethal arms to Ukraine, but may eventually have do it if crisis gets out of hand. It is not up to Pentagon to ship arms somewhere, of course, at least since the President is the Commander-in-Chief, and overall there is civilian oversight of the military. All of that should be in official legal documents somewhere, and linked to Constitution. So what prankster adds is a laugh (which indeed is in short supply). --Resup (talk) 21:23, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

I say it includes a sort of leak. As an insider, McNeely thinks that might fly. It might help having that aired to underscore the reminder that, officially, Washington will not be doing that. They were considering it, but hopefully less so now. --Caustic Logic (talk) 22:50, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

BND
BND accuses "separatists" shooting MH17 with Buk captured from UAF. Zero evidence is actually presented. Novorossia captured some Buk (according to reports), but that one was not operational (according to same reports, I did not keep links). Also Novorossia does not have officers who are trained in shooting Buk, this is not a shoulder-fired fire-and-forget equipment. What's BND up to ? Saving Merkel face? They do talk about satellite photos, that may be something new. So, where are those photos? --Resup (talk) 18:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

20 July, Bolotov, LNR, offers anybody to inspect their Buk which is not in working condition. (BND, did you check?Where is the report of that check And where is (any) of your evidence? ) --Resup (talk) 19:12, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Documents from the computer of chief military prosecutor of Ukraine

 * Documents from the computer of chief military prosecutor of Ukraine - CyberBerkut
 * ''Ukrainian armed forces suffer another devastating defeat in the Southeast. Adventurous offensive Ukrainian troops in Donetsk stopped militias and finally petered out, a huge group of APU got a new boiler under Debaltseve and may soon cease to exist.
 * ''Price "blitzkrieg" high: only two weeks of fighting APU lost 1,100 dead soldiers on the battlefield there are more than 100 destroyed tanks, captured by the defenders of the Donbass were dozens of Ukrainian soldiers and officers. Today, these terrible figures are one of the best kept secrets of the Kiev junta. Guide NSDC, Ministry of Defence, and the president himself Poroshenko spare no effort trying to convince public opinion in Ukraine that "no casualties", "the enemy is broken", "thousands of terrorists destroyed."
 * ''But in reality, the opposite is true: the troops are demoralized and surrendering, no reserves, mobilization slips, recruits fleeing to Russia and the West. In a panic command ATO publishes insane orders, forms in the rear detachments, throws into senseless attack on a well-prepared defense militias inexperienced young men. At the same time commander of the first criminals fleeing from the front, and prosecutors discharged himself identity combatants and punched benefits. And this at a time when the population of the war zone moans deserters, looters, homicidal maniacs in the form of Ukrainian army soldiers!
 * ''We CyberBerkut, we see all these facts, crimes Kiev junta and its well documented. Thus, the following documents posted mined by us from your computer Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 14:23, 28 January 2015 (UTC) (updated 00:02, 30 January 2015 (UTC))
 * Inconvenient Truth: Hackers Reveal True Number of Ukrainian Army Casualties - Sputnik/ Andrei Stenin, 29.01.2015
 * It is ordered that real UAF losses information is restricted, reported to SBU only. 12600 criminal cases on weapons theft. Rear guards formed to prevent mass desertion from Debaltsevo -TASS--Resup (talk) 16:59, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

"Cyberberkut" or somebody claiming to be them, wearing in Guy Fawkes mask, gives 3 days to stop the bloodshed, otherwise will dump lots of incriminating information  --Resup (talk) 20:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Lightweight Counter-Mortar Radar?
The US supposedly gave Ukraine three Lightweight Counter-Mortar Radars. The serial numbers of the radars were revealed on a document that supposedly was leaked by CyberBerkut. Or was it? Now one of the radars was captured in Debaltsevo. The serial number on the crate matches one of the serial numbers on the document.
 * NAF thanks the United States for the new LCMR (Lightweight Counter-Mortar Radar) - BMPD - Live Journal, Translated by Kristina Rus, February 20, 2015

Was the LCMR document part of the leaked batch or was it made public by the US? If it was originally leaked, then the serial number confirms the authenticity of the leaked and by extension the whole batch. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 06:22, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, CB published a document with three LCMR serial numbers on 25.11.2014 . On 19.02.2015 LifeNews video at 4:43 we see on a side of a big box a serial number 369 (what we see is SN 369); that would be the last of those three numbers previously published. Actually, an authorization to give Ukraine "non-lethal" weapons, materials and training in the total amount of 25 million $ was officially granted and published in the US Federal Register, 24.09.2014. LCMR is considered "non-lethal"; total cost of 3 units said to be about 400 thousand $; so whether or not this is actually a good idea, no US laws seem to be broken here. --Resup (talk) 14:08, 27 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I found the original document and it confirms my suspicion: the serial number 369 was revealed in a leaked document and it has not been made public otherwise.
 * Hackers Leak US Document Scans With Plans to Supply Weapons to Kiev - Sputnik, 25.11.2014
 * The general rule on leaks and forgeries says that if one document from a batch of documents of unknown provenance can be shown to be a forgery, then all documents should be assumed to be fakes as well. On the other hand, if one document from a batch can be authenticated, then we can treat the others as authentic as well. -- 09:15, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Private Military Companies
CB published today an intercept showing that a private US and Europe based military company (GG) is offering its services to Ukraine, to (1) serve as volunteers to handle Western lethal weapons aid, addressing concerns of Europeans, in particular France, that weapons may end up in wrong hands/misused (2) provide training to UAF following NATO standards (rusvesna report). This company says they have experience of providing training and consulting in Georgia in 2014. --Resup (talk) 03:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC)


 * More here: -- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:17, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * US to Send Arms to Ukraine Using Private Contractors - Hacker Group - Sputnik, 28.02.2015

Petro Poronsko and NATO?
Via Facebook: "Secret Conversation between Petro Poronsko and NATO is Leaked" Hoax. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 16:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * http://www.datafilehost.com/d/0dc3efdd

Ukrainian plans for Maidan in Moscow
Gordon Hahn writes about an earlier CyberBerkut leak and how it relates to the murder of Boris Nemtsov and the planned Maidan 2 in Moscow.
 * A Russian Maidan in the Works? - Gordon M. Hahn
 * A Russian Maidan in the works? - Oriental Review, Mar 3, 2015
 * ''At about the same time Rada deputy Goncharenko was in Moscow, a different figure, one Alexander Gontcharuk, figured in emails hacked and published on February 18th by the pro-Russian ‘CyberBerkut’ internet investigating unit showing alleged plans to parlay the March 1 demonstration in Moscow into a Russian Maidan. Although it is not possible to verify the authenticity of the alleged copies of the emails, the early and mid-February emails show Gontcharuk in contact with Nikolay Lyaskin, a close associate of Alexey Navalny.

In fact, the emails can be authenticated (at least 31 of them). They are "DomainKeys Identified Mail" and are signed with a cryptographic key. Anything sent from Gmail, Yandex or Mail.ua is authenticated in this way.


 * Wikipedia: DomainKeys Identified Mail
 * ''DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system designed to detect email spoofing by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail exchangers to check that incoming mail from a domain is authorized by that domain's administrators and that the email (including attachments) has not been modified during transport. A digital signature included with the message can be validated by the recipient using the signer's public key published in the DNS.

I have not checked the messages, nor do I have the tools to do it right now. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 17:44, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Sweep in Mariupol

 * Mariupol "clean-up" operation and arrests of its residents are initiated by Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine - 6.03.2015
 * There does not seem to be any way to link to individual leaks. The link now goes to the English language main page.
 * CyberBerkut Warns That Kiev is Carrying Out 'Sweep' Operation in Mariupol - 06.03.2015

Dutch Foreign Office Email
This is not by CyberBerkut, but as it is related to Ukraine and MH17, I will list it here. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 06:49, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * MH17 – Leaked Dutch Foreign Office Email - DeepResource, 5 April 2015
 * The article accuses K* ... (1) There is a spoof recording of (real) K and (fake) 'Gubarev', where they discuss MH17. 'Gubarev' suggests it was 'them'; K* denies, also says it it was accidental. 'Gubarev' asks, so what, you think it was us? K* denies that as well and the tape cuts off immediately. Unclear what he meant, is it 'DPR, not LPR', or similar fine distinction on Ukrainian side, or 'the third force' of some sort. (He appeared a bit drunk and those words may mean little anyway)
 * (2)But it is said that K* has experience of hostile take-overs of others commerce; accused of    inventing stories,  using intimidation/force/strong-arms tactics (similar to Ukrnafta), and overall strong drive with not too many limitations, in pursuing  his business interests. (Business dispute with Abramovich, verbal clashes with Putin noted).
 * (3)Still he would seem to be out of his depth in MH17; on Ukrainian side of things, that would need SBU and military involved; with some of the few oligarchs running most of the things possibly giving it some backing,  ( a lot to none at all range), but not like sending their own goons to do it all...  --Resup (talk) 12:57, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

West and Ukraine against Putin
Drakulablog.com has a history of publishing confidential information (though admittedly of unproven provenance) on sensitive national security issues. Today it has published materials from the February 19, 2015 NATO HQ meeting on "strategic communications", namely a psychological and information warfare strategy to discredit the Russian leadership among the population of Eastern Ukraine. In addition to targeting key Russian officials, it also intends to promote separatism in Russia's regions. Cassad posted images, as well as links to documents uploaded by rakulablog.com. -- J. Hawk
 * West and Ukraine against Putin and his politicians - Drakulablog, 1 April 2015
 * Documents Reveal Covert US, UK, NATO Propaganda War in Ukraine - Sputnik, 10 April 2015

Names of Western instructors

 * «Кибер-Беркут» опубликовал имена западных инструкторов на Украине ("Cyber-Berkut" published the names of Western instructors in Ukraine) - L!FE News, 13 April 2015
 * http://thesaker.is/cyberberkut-has-published-the-list-of-names-of-western-instructors-in-ukraine/

OSCE mission?
Finnish officer named on the list says the list is old, he was in Ukraine a year ago. (Older sources say he was in Ukraine in March 2014.) -- Petri Krohn (talk) 11:30, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Suomalaisupseerit joutuivat Venäjän propagandan uhreiksi – kohu lännen ”sotilasprovokaattoreista” - Ilta-Sanomat, 14 April 2015


 * Ukraine Hacktivists Give Danger Warning, Post List of Foreign 'Inspectors' - Sputnik, 14.04.2015
 * ''Attached is also a copy of a letter from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry signed by the deputy head of the ministry’s department on international security addressed to the country’s Internal Ministry, Security Service of Ukraine and the heads of 17 regions.
 * ''The document explains that a too large group of inspectors is to arrive in the country under the provisions of the 2011 Vienna Document On Confidence- And Security-Building Measures.
 * ''According to its provisions, the Vienna Document 2011 “was designed to increase openness and transparency concerning military activities conducted inside the OSCE's zone of application (ZOA).

Seen in Kherson on March 6, 2014 Colonel Cassad:
 * http://khersonci.com.ua/public/5297-soldaty-v-forme-stran-nato-v-tsentre-khersona.html
 * http://altyn73.livejournal.com/520360.html
 * http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2141039.html

It is evident that the list of names is from March 2014. All the flights are to Odessa, some are no longer operating.

Something is left unexplained. The letter published by L!FE News is dated April 11, 2015. I do not know if this is the same letter Sputnik is referring to.

Sputnik posts a screenshot of the Cyber Berkut site with the documents posted April 13th. I cannot see the post on the Cyber Berkut site,not even in the Google cache version from 13 Apr 2015 16:49:36 GMT (The L!FE News story is posted one hour later, at 20:37 Moscow time.) -- Petri Krohn (talk) 17:01, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * They seem to have several sites, .org and .ru, this one is on the .ru  version --Resup (talk) 06:45, 17 April 2015 (UTC)