From computers to underwear to foods like salami and preserves and even a drone. And the spoils of war that Russian soldiers raided houses in occupied cities and sent them to their families. Outside of 4 thousand packages sent by post for a total of 53 tons of stolen goods from Ukrainians: the targets are mostly aimed at the extreme east of Russia, the poorest areas in between Mongolia and the Caucasus.
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When Russian troops abandoned northern Ukraine a few months ago, many rushed to send stolen goods home. Videos of postal queues and soldiers packing stolen goods outraged the world. Today, we have new data on destinations of these expeditions and their number thanks to the Russian investigative body Conveyfounded by two components of the pussy riot and led by dissident Sergey Smirnov (who fled abroad). Investigative reporters investigated the shipping activities of CDEK, a company used by the Russians to send packages. So they tracked the packages and tracked the departure and arrival dates.
Eastern region packs
Thanks to the package tracking capabilities offered by the technology, investigators identified 13 locations, all in Russia and Belarus, where “anomalous shipments” were registered: the packages departed from cities such as Belgorod or Mazyr (in Belarus) that are directly in the area , in which Russian soldiers were mobilized in their retreat from the cities of the north (Kyiv and Kharkiv). From these centers, the packages did not go to big cities, as is almost always the case, but to remote villages in Asian Russia, near Mongolia, to China or to the Caucasus. These are the poorest areas of the country, where most of the soldiers come from. The city most expeditions target is Yurga, which lies on the Trans-Siberian border and is where several brigades that fought in Kyiv originated.
the booty
To find out what the packages contained, just look at Post Office security camera footage broadcast online. Everything is in the backpacks of the soldiers: stereo systems, tents, guitars, food, televisions and clothes. One soldier stands out among all of them: he has a briefcase and when opening it reveals a drone (later identified as a Russian Orlan-10). The bottom line is that Russian soldiers are so poor that they rob not only from the Ukrainians but also from their own army.