Dmitry Lysyuk himself previously admitted that during the hostilities he personally met and communicated with militants, in particular, with the now killed Pavel Dremov.
The investigation into the death of military personnel continues 128th separate mountain assault Transcarpathian brigade. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky promised to punish all those responsible, but meanwhile new details are emerging. In particular, the scandalous details concern brigade commander Dmitry Lysyuk, who appeared at the scene of the tragedy two minutes after the strike.
Who could leak data about the military to the Russians and what is known about the brigade commander – read in Victoria Gnatyuk’s exclusive material for TSN.ua.
Strike on the 128th Brigade
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November 3 for Ukraine brought another terrible news. During the formation for the award ceremony in a front-line village in the Zaporozhye region, the Russians fired at the 128th separate mountain assault brigade. Iskander-M took the lives of 19 Ukrainian soldiers, several dozen more received various injuries, and civilians were also injured.
Names of the dead
The names of several dead soldiers are already known to Ukrainians. This is: an employee of the Ministry of Veterans Sergey Kuznevmember of the executive committee of the Vinogradov City Council Dmitry Milyutin and former head of TCC Vladimir Vozny. Among the dead is the deputy brigade commander, lieutenant colonel, 42-year-old Andrey Tarasenko. On November 6 they said goodbye to him in his native Chernivtsi. His subordinates remember him as a persistent and humane commander.
Mourning in Transcarpathia
All Transcarpathia is in mourning. People went to honor the memory of the victims both in the city and throughout the region. People organized themselves and held a memorial evening, carried flowers and lamps, and symbolically laid out the number of the brigade from candles.
Investigation of the case
The State Bureau of Investigation has now opened criminal proceedings In connection with this tragedy, they are investigating the actions of the military command, which organized an event for the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery, which led to the mass death of Ukrainian defenders. President Zelensky also stated that this tragedy could have been avoided.
Why did the Russians hit it so accurately?
The Russians hit the target exactly, so they knew where, they knew who was there, when and how many, which means, as experts suggest, this time they could not do without a gunner.
Where was the commander and what is known about him?
Whether the tragedy in the Zaporozhye direction really was the work of the gunners, the command has not yet commented. Details will be known once the investigation is completed. In the meantime, more and more interesting facts about the brigade commander are emerging. As for this tragic day, it was he, Dmitry Lysyuk, who gave the order to line up, but for some reason he was late for the award ceremony and arrived exactly two minutes after the rocket attack. This commander has been fighting since 2014, and in 2017 received the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, 3rd degree. By the way, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Lysyuk began his combat career as part of the 128th Brigade. It was his unit that liberated Popasnaya in 2014, then still in the ATO zone, then he led the 8th battalion of the then youngest 10th mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But already in 2019, it became known about dark, to put it mildly, pages in Lysyuk’s biography: it turned out that he was also a professional smuggler. Then journalist Olga Reshetilova announced this on her social networks. Reminds me of Dmitry Lysyuk’s criminal record after the tragedy in a front-line village, journalist Vladimir Boyko, citing the court verdict.
Commander’s criminal history
It turned out that Lysyuk, together with a counterintelligence major from the SBU, covered up the illegal import of cigarettes manufactured in Russia from militants of the so-called LPR across the demarcation line. The only thing that the smugglers did not calculate was that the Ukrainian special services were wiretapping just then as part of one of the criminal cases and recorded negotiations between the battalion commander and the military about smuggling and transferred the case to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Dmitry Lysyuk himself, originally from the Donetsk region, said in an interview with journalists that he went to fight after the liberation of his hometown from the oppression of the occupiers, and dreams of a free Donbass and the presence in Ukraine of a professional army that meets world standards. In particular, in an interview with Apostrophe, the battalion commander boasted that the unit was in a very abandoned state when he went there, but he carried out reforms, changed commanders and formed a “powerful backbone.”
“I’ve been in the brigade for a year and a half, since April 2016. I came here straight away as a battalion commander from the 128th brigade. I was offered a position here, so I came. I came, looked at all this – and wanted to leave, but I realized that no one will let go. It was very, very sad here. I saw people who had been guarding the seashore on yellow buses for three years and were sure that the Zaporozhye or Kharkov region was already an ATO. It turned out that some vocal fighters for justice were not interested in fighting when they shooting. And there were quite a few of them in the battalion. They dropped out. And when we were taken to the PPD in early November, we had already calmly carried out a reform of the battalion, changed all the commanders and formed a fairly powerful backbone. And now the battalion is 60 percent made up of people who clearly they know their job and do it without unnecessary fuss,” Lysyuk said then.
Did Lysyuk meet with the enemy?
In the same interview, Lysyuk himself admitted that during the hostilities he personally met and communicated with enemy fighters, in particular, with the now killed leader of one of the “LPR” militant gangs, Pavel Dremov.
“Well, what can we say about him? He’s local, Stakhanovite. Before the war he was nothing. And then once, twice, he rose up. Then he and the “leadership” of the so-called “LPR” had serious disagreements, because in reality there were people in Stakhanov hunger, cold… And Dremov – he was one of the “ideological” ones. Plus, people began to come to him. So he began to say a lot of unnecessary things. And he agreed to the point that the “necessary” people came here and brought “order.” .. I remember meeting him in December 2014 nearby, on the bridge in Troitsky, before it was blown up. He came and told how bad it was for them there. He asked: “Let’s not shoot for ten days? Because we have nothing…” And my godfather stands and says: “What are the problems? You tell me where, and now we’ll throw up ammunition!” Lysyuk recalled.
Who was the accomplice?
From 2014 to 2017 there were no bad reviews about Lysyuk. But who knows, perhaps it was during those times that he established contact with the separatists and militants, with whom he eventually organized smuggling. Because later the investigation found out that Lysyuk was smuggling goods throughout 2018-2019. And the court established how it all happened. It turned out that Kramatorsk resident Alexander Kuevda approached Lysyuk with a tempting offer back in November 2018. They agreed to pick up the goods at an agreed point – near the Siversky Donets River near the village of Trekhizbenka in the Luhansk region, where at that time the personnel of the 8th separate mountain assault battalion were performing combat missions. Back then, Lieutenant Colonel Lysyuk could not help but agree to such a proposal.
Details of smuggling
The investigation, in particular, gradually described one of the attackers’ moves: at the end of December 2018, Lysyuk took cargo from a forest plantation near the Siversky Donets River and transported 290 boxes in a military truck, which is 144,420 packs of Marуboro Red cigarettes. And he hid them in the neighboring village of Bobrovo, and then sold them to unknown people. In January 2019, the military man made another move and took another 150 boxes of counterfeit cigarettes from the cache. And when on January 17 he was counting his bribe in the amount of $2,300, which was then his “share” for the cigarettes he sold, Lysyuk and his accomplice were detained by law enforcement officers in the Laguna cafe in Severodonetsk. Both were charged with bribery. According to the charge, they faced up to 10 years in prison. But a miracle happened – and the battalion commander received a fine instead of a prison term. On July 30, 2019, both defendants admitted their guilt and entered into a plea agreement. And at the beginning of August 2019, the court recognized the sincere repentance of the suspects as a mitigating circumstance and approved an agreement with the prosecutor’s office, imposing an agreed punishment on the defendants. As a result, Kuevda was sentenced to a fine of 161,500 hryvnia, and battalion commander Lysyuk was sentenced to a fine of 119,000 hryvnia. In addition, the court collected procedural expenses from them in the amount of 36 thousand hryvnia each. And that is all. The only thing I’m interested in is how a person with such a baggage of accusations not only returned to service, but also not as an ordinary soldier, but led an entire brigade? And who approved this appointment?
Lysyuk’s service during a full-scale war
It is known that during a full-scale war Lysyuk actively participated in hostilities. In an interview with the Ukrainian Armed Forces StratCom as part of the “Commanders of Victory” project, he himself said that at the beginning of a full-scale war he was appointed deputy commander in the 60th brigade. He fought his first battle with his brothers-in-arms on March 9 near the village of Kukhari in the Kiev region, and then, together with the fighters, reached the village of Ivankova. Then Lysyuk fought in the Bakhmut direction. According to him, he was offered to lead the 128th brigade at the end of the year, and he was ready. He officially became the brigade commander on December 15, 2022, replacing in this post the Hero of Ukraine, Colonel Denis Chayuk, who in September of this year worked for only a month as the chief military commissar of the Lviv region. And Lysyuk himself emphasized in an interview that the commander must “make a decision with a cool head without emotions.”
“War is always losses, always pain. For me personally, there is nothing good here. I adhere to the opinion that I had in 2014 after Debaltsevo – I don’t want any memories or stories about the war, I just want to forget it, like a terrible dream. But the war continues in our lives, we have learned to live with it and are doing the work,” he said.
Zelensky’s statement
Now Dmitry Lysyuk suspended from dutiesand Zelensky promises that the investigation will figure out minute by minute what really happened on that black day, and the perpetrators will be punished.
▶ You can watch the video on the TSN YouTube channel using this link: “The tragedy in the 128th brigade has acquired strange details! Who is the rat and what’s wrong with the commander?”.
Let us recall that the command of the 128th separate mountain assault brigade reported that 19 soldiers were killed.
According to information from the chairman of the Kamyshevo community Nine local residents were also injured. About 30 houses and outbuildings were damaged in the village.
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