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Shariy and Dolgaryova about Taira (Pseudo prisoner exchange)
2022-06-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

This continues the saga of Ukrainian medic Yulia Paevskaya formerly of the Azov Regiment and Adam Gritsenko. You can read about it here.

And as a further update, the exchange definitely wasn't sanctioned by Moscow. By now they (Moscow) probably are aware of it.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.

I’ll note right away that there are no official comments regarding the strangest story of the exchange of Yulia Paevskaya from the Azov unit from the Russian Defense Ministry and, most likely, there will not be any more.

The main conclusion is that in order to avoid similar situations in the future, it is necessary to draw conclusions and work on the mistakes from this story. Let what happened act as an extra incentive to mobilize society.
My emphasis
Well, now it's interesting. First Anatoly Shariy. He tells, he claims, the nuances of the exchange that have become known to him.

"The agreement was simple: the Russians let the Taira go to Ukraine, but the Ukrainian security forces don't touch Adam. The decision not to go to Russia was made by Saidov's son, and it's basically impossible to 'deport' a citizen of Ukraine anywhere," surfaced in the domestic press.

That is, he did not go to the Russian Federation and she was simply released. My God, well, sometimes it's unpleasant to be right.

Opinion of military correspondent Anna Dolgareva

Many people ask to speak out on the story of Taira.

First. I know the story of how the "Azovites" shot their parents to leave the city under the cover of their children. Whether it was about Taira, I don’t know, since this information appeared much later.

Second. I have great respect for Nadana Friedrichson, she is beautiful, I visited her a couple of years ago on Open Air. But her unpleasant, completely womanish attack on Kuksenkova, who made public information about the exchange of Tyra for Adam Gritsenko, made me very disappointed. By publishing such information, Kuksenkova risked not only her career, and it is unlikely that she did it for the sake of hype.
Nadana Friedrichson is a television host on Russian TV channel Zvezda. Kuksenovka refers to the Russian military field correspondent Irina Kuksenovka, who first broke the story of Yulia Paevskaya's release in Russian language press.
Third. The silence of the lambs that the officials have arranged for the Taira is very bad. Gentlemen, you may not have noticed, but for eight years a civil society has grown in Russia, which is interested not only in "Bush's legs" (God, how old I am), but also in the fate of the country. And this enigmatic silence is a spit in the face of this civil society. I beg you to hear me.

From yesterday, a comment by Ukrainian GRU officer Igor Bezler, from his wife's VK page:
I looked at the reaction of various kinds of propagandists from the Russian Federation to the exchange of a Nazi woman from Azov. The reaction from "don't rock the boat - our rats are rocking" to "I don't know anything, I'm not in the know"

But in reality, the exchange of a creature from Azov for a major, the son of Murad Saidov, is the height of cynicism and spitting in the face of our prisoners. Officially, this Marad Saidov (criminal chaser Sutu) is presented either as a deputy representative of the head of the Chechen Republic in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Sevastopol, or as a representative of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation. For Murad Saidov, Melitopol was actually his hometown. Until 2012, he lived in it and was considered a prominent representative of the criminal world of Zaporozhye, looking. In 2012, after a series of showdowns, Saidov was detained by local security forces and deported from Ukraine.
Bezler says Saidov is involved with Ukrainian organized crime. If anyone would know about this, it would be Bezler. In 2014, he trafficked in Ukrainian weapons sold to the separatists by Ukrainian government officials, including former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. That hints that this whole exchange was about Ukrainian and Russian organized crime, and that the return of the Azov medic was simple window dressing.

It also should be noted that most of the smuggling routes for excise goods (stolen bonded products subjected to Ukrainian excise tax (which I understand is sky high), as well as drugs and humans in and out of Ukraine and, thus the breakaway republics, go through the mountains of Galicia.

This exchange really showed that the son of a major, a criminal authority that rubs near Isa Khachukaev, who has not fought a single day, is more important than any Russian pilot, artilleryman, tanker or motorized rifleman who is in captivity ... Judging by the pale sluggish bleating of all military men from TG,
(TG=Telegram, the instant messaging service)
that they squeal as if stung for any reason, everyone understands that the sacred children of the mountains are much more important than a simple Vanka from the Urals.
"sacred children of the mountains" is a reference to the Chechens He was saying the quiet part aloud, just like Bezler.

Posted by:badanov

#3  My commentary changed to reflect Waldemar White5675.

Original commentary preserved.
Posted by: badanov   2022-06-22 17:29  

#2   I thought "children of the mountains" referred to the Chechens.

That would make more sense.
Posted by: badanov   2022-06-22 14:46  

#1  I thought "children of the mountains" referred to the Chechens.
Posted by: Waldemar White5675   2022-06-22 11:26  

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