The Nur ad-Din Zengi Islamist group, which is fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, has announced they shot down an allegedly Russian Forpost-type drone, according to NGO Conflict Intelligence Team, which refers to the Syrian opposition's Medad Press media outlet.
The Defense Ministry is set to ban Russian soldiers from uploading information to the internet that could give away their affiliation, activity or location, the news site RBC reported Thursday.
InformNapalm OSINT community experts have already reported on the participation of Russian marines in the war in eastern Ukraine.
Dutch journalists from the Nieuwsuur (News Hour) television program broadcast by the public broadcasters NOS and NTR have indirectly confirmed the place of residence of Russian Major General Sergey Dubinsky (Doebinski in the Dutch spelling), nom de guerre Khmuryi ('Gloomy' or 'Grumpy'), who is suspected of involvement in the MH17 downing in occupied territory in Donbas in July 2014, according to an episode aired on July 2, 2017.
Ukrainian OSINT community InformNapalm reports they have identified war criminals from a special forces battalion of the Russian 8th Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade (the 8th MMRB) who participated in the first wave of the Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has used the T-90 main battle tank and its variants in occupied Donbas, which currently represent "the peak of armored warfare capability of Russian ground forces," according to Bellingcat, an international OSINT community.