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2025-06-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
About Russian GRU Colonel Igor Bezler
A little "inside baseball" stuff from the Russian/separatist side in 2014: Text taken from a thread in the X account of Desiderius | Casus Belli 🔱.
Bezler is a far more interesting character than Girkin. GRU agent living in Horlivka for a decade waiting for shit to hit the fan, becomes respected in the mafia community, captures a police station by walking in and appointing some SHADY dude the new chief,
Girkin refers to Igor Girkin, AKA Igor Strelok, the reenacting reserve FSB colonel, who claimed at the time he had an active role in the takeover in Crimea and Donetsk.
He has served time for his remarks on the Russian army.

Had the rare reputation of being kind to POWs even though he mock executed three captives on camera, making it look real, then couple of days later said they're fine lol wanna exchange the boys👉👈.

Also kidnapped and killed political opponents and journos

Despises Girkin so much you can't call it a beef, he just sees him as gay crying dumbass. When Girkin fled Sloviansk, Bezler hosted him in Gorlovka and as sign of hospitality let Girkin use the sauna to unwind, then called Moscow laughing that Girkin fled Sloviansk to his sauna.

One of Girkin's officers overhears this and takes out a grenade, but Bezler's new bride stunlocks him with an AK. Then Girkin walks in, refreshed and ready, wearing new camo fatigues that Bezler gifted him. They are actually his wife's.

Sends a squad to Donetsk to attack the central police station (he had a beef with one of the guys there). His squad captures the building and then gets besieged by Vostok, Oplot and other Donetsk-based groups.

They hold them all off, because Bezler had cultivated the least idiotic and the only competent Russian militia. Hearing of their plight, Bezler sends reinforcements and heavy artillery. No half measures kind of guy.

Vostok commander and essentially reluctant ruler of Donetsk Khodakovsky calls him and tells him to chill the fuck out, they'll give him the dude, call it all off. Bezler calls it off. By that time Russian and Ukrainian media alike are full of headlines about civil war in DPR

Nothing happens to him because everyone realize he's actually insane and become scared of him. Khodakovsky says he wanted to make Horlivka a city-state. Plays a role in MH17 shootdown, in that the BUK had to travel through his turf. Apparently becomes somewhat of a sex pest.

Realizes the state of things (Girkin & co fucked it all up, Moscow will now take over). Peaces out instead of sticking around and getting blown up in an elevator. Is old as fuck now but instead of going to SVO shitshow he jumps with parachutes and a cane, chills on yachts.

Several days after he takes over Horlivka, Zelenskyi does a show there. In 2020 Bezler said he regrets not "feeding him lead instead of patties"

Posted by badanov 2025-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [33 views ]  Top

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