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Russian Lieutenant Colonel Panferov
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Text taken from the Telegram channel of @okspn Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Borisovich Panferov, veteran of the GRU special forces. He was one of the participants in the operation "Storm-333" as a conscript in the 154th separate special forces GRU.  In 1979, he was called up for military service in the 15th Separate Special Forces GRU brigade (Chirchik, TurkVO). In 1980, he entered the Novovoronezh Higher Military Command School, which he graduated from in 1984 and returned to the special forces units. From 1987 to 1988, he was again in Afghanistan. Andrey Borisovich was awarded three Orders of the Red Star for Afghanistan. From 1988 to 1991, he served in the Transcaucasian Military District in the 22nd Special Purpose Brigade of the GRU as a company commander and deputy battalion commander. He carried out combat missions in Nagorno-Karabakh. From 1993, in the 67th Special Purpose Brigade of the GRU in Berdsk. He served as deputy battalion commander and later became a battalion commander. He participated in the first campaign in Chechnya. While holding command positions in the detachment, Panferov never sat in a tent. He regularly went on missions with groups and reconnaissance detachments. In the summer of 1995, the RO of the 691st Special Purpose Brigade under his command carried out a raid in the Zandak area. One of the features of that raid was the "masquerade" - some of the scouts moved around disguised as militants. From January 1996, he was on another mission in Chechnya. He led the combined ROs from the 67th and 22nd Spetsnaz Brigades during combat missions, including to Grozny. In February 1996, he sent another General-Admiral from the General Staff in plain text during a radio exchange, whose resentment may have subsequently become one of the reasons why Andrei Borisovich had his Hero star "cut off". Together with his intelligence officers, he participated in the battles in Grozny in March 1996. For completing combat missions, he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree with swords (one of two officers in the brigade), the Order of Courage. Retired in 1998. After the end of the first campaign, Panferov was firmly convinced that his subordinates would have to return to Chechnya again. In Berdsk, Andrei Borisovich enjoyed the enormous respect of his intelligence officers, and could both reward and punish them for their mistakes. It is worth saying that even 30 years later, his former subordinates remember him with respect. After retiring, he headed the security service of the VINAP company in Novosibirsk. With the beginning of the second campaign, Panferov, using his capabilities, tried to provide the departing detachments of the brigade with everything they needed, personally transported equipment and gear to the detachments' PVDs in North Ossetia and Ingushetia. For this, they even rented planes from the Siberian Airlines. Subsequently, he took a position in the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region. In 2020, he was awarded the Order of Nevsky. It is rightly said that there are no former intelligence officers, they are always intelligence officers. So Andrei Borisovich, with the beginning of the SVO, he certainly did not sit still. At his instigation, the Vega heavy battalion was formed remembering the experience of Afghanistan and the first Chechnya, Panferov decided that the brigades needed litigation battalions again. Now, "Vega" is regularly harassing the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front. At the end of 2024, Panferov again began forming another detachment, which was named "Orion". And this at 64 years old. A solid post-marriage list - Afghanistan, Karabakh, Chechnya, Ukraine. Posted by: badanov 2024-12-29 |
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