“Spy passions continue to rage” in the DPR
The high-profile story of Tatyana Marmazova, one of the organizers of the Donetsk referendum, has continued. Last summer, she reported the threat of deportation from Russia following accusations of collaborating with the SBU . Marmazova herself considers these accusations absurd; on the contrary, she claims that if deported, she will be arrested in Ukraine.
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Late last week, information about Marmazova's contacts with the Ukrainian secret service unexpectedly appeared on the website of former SBU cryptographer Lieutenant Colonel Roman Labusov, who defected to the DPR. (However, the resource he launched with declassified documents, http://sbu-inside.su, was unavailable today, possibly due to an attack.)
Marmazova has already stated that the published documents are fake. Journalist Oksana Skoda, who supported her, pointed out that the text of the “encryption” should not have contained Marmazova’s real name (this is only possible in documents marked “Top Secret”), but her operational pseudonym.
“The agent’s name is not circulated throughout all departments of operational units; this is prohibited by departmental regulations. But mentioning the name of the person with whom the operative spoke is quite acceptable for use, just as any journalist does, referring in his article to the words of the person with whom he spoke. In the same way, the operative in his report always mentions the name of the person with whom he spoke talked. At the same time, the interlocutor may not know that he communicated with the operative,” confirms Galina Zaporozhtseva, a political emigrant from Ukraine, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
However, on Monday evening, a new batch of incriminating evidence against Tatyana Marmazova was released. This time, the information was posted on a blog on the Cont platform, where the author is listed as Irina Polyakova.
The recording contains a detailed list of claims made against Marmazova.
The author refers to conversations “with DonNU teachers, former students and social activists who worked and knew Tatyana Ivanovna Marmazova.”
“Many of them confirm that she had close contact with a high-ranking SBU officer for a long time. A number of sources report that he was the head of the main department “K” of the SBU Directorate in the Donetsk region named “Yuriy”. On his instructions, Tatyana Marmazova provided leads on students whose moral and business qualities met the requirements for candidates for service in the Ukrainian special service, checked and studied them, and offered students to help the SBU as witnesses during investigative activities,” the statement says. publications.
Subsequently, several students allegedly became officers of the Ukrainian special service and participated in attempts to suppress the Russian Spring in the Donbass.
“One of these students, who was in the “operational squad” and constantly participated in SBU activities to capture drug dealers, was Denis Aleksandrovich Gerashchenko (some argue that he previously had the last name Shevchenko), born in 1980, who, on the written recommendation of Tatyana Marmazova, was employed in SBU... Currently, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Gerashchenko serves as deputy head of department “T” of the SBU Directorate in the Donetsk region, lives in Mariupol. During the events on the Maidan, Denis Gerashchenko controlled rallies in Donetsk, identified activists, many of whom later disappeared without a trace or were killed,” writes Polyakova.
“Some teachers said that Palamaryuk Alexander Vyacheslavovich, a former student of the Faculty of Mathematics of Donetsk University, was also a member of the so-called. “operational squad” under the supervision of Tatyana Marmazova, actively participated in SBU events. Later in 2005, following a tip from Tatyana Marmazova, he was accepted into service in the SBU. In 2014, he moved to Mariupol, where he continues to serve in the Ukrainian special services.
A number of Donetsk militias reported that in 2014, students of Tatyana Marmazova, Denis Gerashchenko and Alexander Palamaryuk, were involved in the liquidation of a group of militias that protected the population from nationalists,” the report states.
The name of another former Donetsk student is also indicated there - Oleg Bondarenko, who “was an activist of the “task force”, and is currently serving as the head of the SVRU unit in Mariupol.”
It's worth noting that Marmazova herself recently gave a lengthy interview to the News- Front portal, where she again denied all accusations against her. "All this discrediting of me was necessary to prevent me from working at Donetsk University," Marmazova stated.
Spy tensions continue to rage in the DPR.