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Policeman-traitor Dmytro Pogrebnyak (call sign \u00abShaman\u00bb) from Luhansk is the commander of illegal military unit \u00abbattalion named after Sudoplatov\u00bb fighting the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Zaporizhzhia region. He served in the special unit \u00abSokil\u00bb of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00abBattalion named after Sudoplatov\u00bb has been created<\/a> upon the initiative of Yevhen Balytsky, the Russian \u00abhead\u00bb of occupied part of Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region. As the 32nd<\/sup> squad of BARS (Russian army units of reservists), it has been subordinated to the 58th<\/sup> Army of the Russian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n At the very beginning of its existence, this \u00abbattalion\u00bb has been legalized as \u00abthe state unitary enterprise<\/a>\u00bb of the Russian occupation administration of Zaporizhzhia region in the Russian Register of Legal Entities. In February-June 2023, Pogrebnyak Dmytro Tymofiyovych<\/strong> has been its acting director (his Russian taxpayer\u2019s code 910217849658 was issued by Russian tax inspection in occupied Simferopol, the capital of Crimea).<\/p>\n As the Center for Journalist Investigations revealed, Dmytro Pogrebnyak is the Ukrainian citizen (Ukrainian passport # \u0412\u041a249020, Ukrainian taxpayer\u2019s code 3258800991). He was born in Luhansk region on March 22, 1989. Before the Russian occupation of Luhansk region in 2014, he has served as the sergeant in Luhansk rapid operational response unit \u00abSokil\u00bb of the Department to Fight Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.<\/p>\n Video of Russian propagandist Solovyov demonstrated him without balaclava and named him as Dmytro, with call sign \u00abShaman\u00bb. He told that he has been sent as the member of \u00abSokil\u00bb from Luhansk to Kyiv \u00abto pacify\u00bb the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014.<\/p>\n \u00abWe were given weapons; we occupied hills and protected assault squads which withdrew from Maidan. We evacuated our wounded people\u00bb, as told Pogrebnyak to propagandist Solovyov. It seems that he participated in covering so-called \u00abblack company of \u00abBerkut\u00bb<\/a>. This company has been involved into mass shooting of protesters at Instytutska street in Kyiv.<\/p>\n