Frau adopted Orthodoxy. Confectioner from Donetsk. Lover of gee-gees from Siberia. Three women’s images of the Kremlin propaganda with help of which mercenaries were attracted on Donbass from Russia.
Walk, “Vasya”, walk
Russian woman Veselina Cherdantseva left the native stable (he worked in Cavalry school in St. Petersburg where she removed from Siberia) and came on Donbass. Ex-stud farmer appeared in the report of “Russia24” channel in 2014. The “reported” was telling that fragile girl Veselina (nickname “Vasya”) commanded a squad from 15 men and she won her authority in a battle. Terrorist-woman Cherdantseva said that she killed Ukrainian militaries selectively: she spared conscript soldiers, but she dreamt to shot out soldiers from the volunteer battalions. She called her idol Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko – woman-sniper, the hero of WWII.
“Vasya” without camouflage
For the time being the concrete place of service of “Vasya” stayed unknown, Luhansk of Donetsk region flashed in the titles. Touring star often appeared in the plots of Russians channels, from which spectator knew that she was “the commander of the task group”. After some time Cherdantseva appeared in Horlovka, occupied by Bezler and began to use his special arrangement. On October 28 “legendary” Vasya shot down other insurgent “Musya” (Aleksei Mayorov) in time of boozing. The relatives of “Musa” went in Donetsk region to look for him. Mother and sister of Russian mercenary could find only semidecomposed body.
Here is the description of the murder by the relatives of died “Musa” and security of Vaselina:
“She took the machine gun. Came closer and made three shots in Aleksei head, – told Tatyana, – then her personal security took the shovel on that block-post and dug him”.
“We didn’t dig him deep, – remembering the bodyguard of Vasya, – We didn’t have a wish to strew ground on his face. We went to Makeevka after that, Vasy had been drinking there hall day. She said to us that she would report to the leadership by herself”.
The insurgent “Musa” killed by “Vasya”
Relatives could identify the corpse only by tattoos on the hands and to find the killer of their brother and son they made a real investigation. It turned that Xenia Shikalova was hiding under the pseudonym “Veselina Cherdantseva”. Now “Vasya” lives in Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg and the interest to her person came to naught from the side of Russian propagandists. Cherdantseva-Shikalova told in one of the last video, that she was close to death after the shelling of terrorists positions from the side of AFU.
The relatives of “Musa” insurgent, who was killed by their compatriot “Vasya” have applied into Russian law enforcement structures, but there were no reaction from their side.
Frau of “the true faith”
Margarita Kaempfer-Seidler couldn’t see more how “Ukrainian fascist destroy civils of Donbass only for the fact that people didn’t want to live under the fascist yoke”. Before this the citizen of Germany got from the “Elders” of Pochaev Lavra the blessing to leave “mired in sin Europe” and settled in Ukraine.
“I didn’t distinguish is it Ukraine, Great or White Russia. All of this together is the Saint Rus for me”, tells Deutsch woman in the interview to “Komsomolskaya pravda”. Before the Maidan in Kyiv Seidler worked in the public movement “People’s Cathedral of Ukraine” (PCU), the critical point of it is the “the reunification of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and Transnistria in the Union State”.
In time of Maidan Seidler with supporters of “PCU” helped to “Berkut”, collected humanitarian aid, warm clothes, fire extinguishers”. After the victory of the Revolution orthodoxy Deutsch woman has run away in Crimea with the group of separatists. She entered “Camooborona” (Self-Defense) there and then removed to Slavyansk, captured by terrorists.
Margarita Kaempfer-Seidler in the report of Russian mass-media
“I’m in Slavyansk now. Thank God! I was accepted into the militia… My friends tried to dissuade me, but my soul felt that I need to go and help, selflessly. I was born in Germany, country which was under the iron heel of fascism and suffered from fascism and Deutschland brought a lot of sorrow to other people! – Seidler wrote from Slavyansk, – Ukr.fascism was artificial and carefully grown. And financed. It’s enough to remember about policy of Bundes Chancellor Angela Merkel, about her support of fascist overturn in Kyiv”.
Grandpas of Margarita Seidler, as terrorist informed, fought as part of the Wehrmacht in WWII.
Now granddaughter of German military fights with weapon in arms on the side of new, Russian Orthodox fascists. Ex-Deutsch nurse doesn’t have a wish to come back in Germany. Orthodox fundamentalist the juvenile justice system, same-sex marriages and liberalism. Margarita Seidler does news on German on one of the separatist information resources.
Seidler tells to Germans the “Terrorist news”
Germany remembers its citizen. Die Welt dedicated to Seidler one chapter in the article “Why Germans die for Putin in Ukraine”.
“Deeper she dived into spirituality, they more and more went out from the West publicity. And more they turned out from the West, they began to sympathize a lot to the idea of Great Russian Empire”.
“Bonya” with the scar on the cheek
Only one photo is available in the Facebook of Donetsk woman Ilona Banevich. Young woman in sportswear holds thin cigarette on it. There is a dog near and view of both is looking forward. Her interests brightly described in her account “VKontakte”, they are “fleKSible”. She likes “films with sense”, books of “A,Dumas & fantastic”. Ilona reports about herself that she is a “dangerous mix of fire and….” From the beginning of the warfare Ilona entered the “militia of DPR” and registered new account in the “vk.com”. Orthodox world view, military service in the “People’s Militia of Donbass”, photos with weapon and in camouflage.
Now “Bonya” is in Rostov-on-Don. She moved on the crutches in summer. She delivers humanitarian aid on the occupied territories for terrorists. “First channel” of RF has been trying to replicate the image of the “heroic commander of the militia” “Bonya”, but because of the tongue-tie of ex-pastry-cook or her scary image (woman was wounded by the splinters in her face) Banevich didn’t appear on TV-screens.
The reconnaissance and sabotage group “Grom” (RSG “Thunder”), which was commanded by “Bonya” has taken place in the battles for Donetsk airport. Ilona has got wounds and ‘awards’ – 2 St. George crosses.
Ex-resident of Debaltsevo Oleg Jilyakov helps “Bonya” in the fundraising of terrorists, bank accounts are opened on his name. Contact telephones used by Jilyakov has the Rostov and St. Petersburg codes.
Ilona Banevich with two “St’ George crosses”
Returning to the peace life is hardly possible to Banevich. Ukrainian law enforcements are looking for her and Russia is refusing for residence. Her house in Donetsk, according to “Bonya’s” words is destroyed, but minute later she said the she lived in multistory house, not in a cottage.
Cynicism like variety of “Russian world”
The image of Donetsk woman, taken weapon in her arms to fight with “junta” was needed to Russian propagandists to give the aggression to “Liberation War”. Eventually Russian spectator was inspired with representation about terrorists like “antifa-volunteers” with which fragile women with usual pre-war fades are fighting shoulder to shoulder. Every appearing of this terrorist-women in the clips are called to stress one or another sign of Russian propaganda.
Case of Cherdantseva shows to the customer of TV-poison to go immediately on Donbass – “who you can sit at home, when young girls are fighting?”.
Plots with participation of frau Seidler are inspiring thought about “worldwide struggle of Nations against fascism”, where Europeans are “massively” taking part on the side of Russia.
Ilona “Bonya” Banevich is the real terrorist, whose participation in the battles was noticed in the format “manly woman on the war” by propagandists.
Russian mass-media massively use the motives of the Soviet military propaganda of WWII times, where women’s and children’s images are operated like the “victims of circumstances” and only “flagrant treachery” of the enemy makes girls to kill. The motive of “people’s war” was played. Now the Russian army is in action and remains of the separatist gangs are absorbed by “Security Forces of Novorossiya”. Not-so-long-ago heroines ought to come back home .
Mykyta Pidgora for informator.lg.ua
translated by Denis Bizkitov