Russian invaders sent 58 tons of parcels with the loot
During the three months of the war, Russian looters sent 58 tons of parcels from SDEK courier service points in the Russian and Belarusian cities bordering Ukraine.
This follows from the investigation of “Mediazone”.
On April 3, blogger Anton Motolko posted a video of the Russian military sending parcels to the SDEK office in Mozyr, Belarus. This video was the first evidence of looting by the Russian army. After the video was published, Mediazona journalists began to observe where SDEK’s border checkpoints were going.
After analyzing 18.5 million shipments, journalists identified criteria for suspicious parcels – usually parcels to cities with military units. The total weight of such suspicious parcels was 58 tons. To find out exactly what was going on in the suspicious parcels, journalists spent several hours watching people in Russian military uniforms being sent from one border delivery point in Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast.
People in military uniforms sent sneakers, tires, a microphone, a TV set, sausages and canned food, a guitar, a tent and much more.
And in one case, the Russian military used the SDEK to transport a Russian Orlan drone – and may have robbed not only Ukrainians but also its own army.
Most people in military uniforms sent parcels to Yurga, Kemerovo region, where three military units are located: the total weight of parcels there was 5.7 tons. Another 5.6 tons – in Chebarkul, where there are two tank regiments.
“To prove that such large volumes of parcels are not a sign of stable social ties between the border and Siberian cities, we checked how many parcels went in the opposite direction. About 5.8 tons of parcels came to Yurga from the border, back – only 51 kilograms. Chebarkul, where more than 5.5 tons were sent, sent less than 10 kilograms to the border in all three months. No parcels were sent from Kyzyl to the border,” – the investigation said.
