the ukrainian army from nato howitzers fired at donetsk makeevka gorlovka and rubizhne under fire, also yasinovataya, there are victims, while the line of contact is slowly but steadily shifting further and further, our enkor grigory vdovin was convinced of this. like this, everyday, passing through the thickets and descending into the trenches, we pass into the former front line on the western outskirts. donetsk all recent years. she passed along this stream and immediately after it the next settlement begins, from which the enemy is now being actively driven out. this is what it looks like.

the first meters of 8 years, the former ukrainian cutting edge. this is already beyond donetsk petrovsky district. starts a little to the left. here begins a series of ruined summer cottages and the center of the city, which goes to the west, the ruins of small garden houses overgrown with shrubs. almost on the roof. after all, for a long time these gardens. nobody cultivates. now there is a road leading to the front line, where the battle is going on artillery firing is becoming more and more distinct, because the positions on which the blows are being struck are moving closer, resistance is being met, but it does not interfere with the troops. guys, worthy of victory for such names , the subdivision is already suspected. we are slowly replacing them with one of ours accompanying the drone operator. according to the functionality, a smartphone is needed, and it is for combat work. the rest of the phones are left far behind. well, as a half-and-half operator , we are in the main risk zone, because

practically from the very beginning of the conduct we are aware that we are working on enemy territory. uh, ann's radio intelligence complex. that's the one that's active . picks up different types of signals. here cellular communication is up to even microwave, that is, satellite communications can even elementary, but intercept ordinary cellular phone calls and faxes. just from a position behind this front line, ukrainian artillerymen. during this day, they fired at the petrovsky district, we will also set fire to the kiev kirovsky one of the central voroshilovsky districts and cannon artillery, 155 mm, and from the mlrs the enemy continues to strike not only at donetsk, but also at other cities of the republic of gorlovka yasinovataya our rocket system inflicts defeat on the battle formations of ukrainian troops fighting on the western outskirts of the board every day more and more moving away from the administrative city border, but

nato artillery systems can hit tens of kilometers, which means at least such a distance. and better of course , the bigger task is to move the enemy further and further, which is now systematically happening . russia alexander bastrykin instructed to initiate criminal proceedings. in connection with the illegal bringing of the hut to the responsibility of the chairman of the central bank of russia, elvira nabiullina, for organizing the ruble zone and blocking the circulation of the hryvnia in new territories. where you want to live and do nothing program about the country of socialism with chinese characteristics.

the forest mafia was pressed against the wall in russia, there were almost no fans left with chainsaws and axes, the security forces defeated most of the taiga balls, however, not all loggers. they are still operating legally. hello to eduard studios

why is timber transported in the irkutsk region at night?

for many years, criminal brigades of black lumberjacks almost openly destroyed the russian forest; theft did not stop for a minute; valuable species of wood were exterminated in all forest regions of the country in the

irkutsk arkhangelsk, kostroma, omsk and tomsk regions in the republics of karelia and buryatia in the khabarovsk and krasnoyarsk territories. at the same time, the fsb of the ministry of internal affairs, the investigative committee, did not sit idle black lumberjacks , the organizers of the criminal business, their curators and even regional ministers arrested with enviable regularity. this has brought results. now more than one brigade does not go into the forest without documents permitting logging. surely the profession of cathedral no longer exists, but isn't it too early to celebrate the victory. in what regions of the country are illegal immigrants still operating? as they try to make their criminal business look legitimate, we took on this case and conducted our own investigation.

in the summer and autumn of 2021, the correspondents of our program visited several regions of the country where the forest mafia is especially raged, for example, in the irkutsk region. here we filmed stories for many years in a row, and

people of different social strata fell into the lens of egregious violations of the law and high-profile criminal cases related to illegal logging, starting with the leader of a gang of black lumberjacks dmitry antonov, also known as antonchik, and ending with the ex-minister of the forestry complex region by sergey from the krasnoyarsk territory, here the employees of the department of economic security and anti-corruption of the regional main directorate of the ministry of internal affairs sat down activities of an organized criminal community that stole the forest almost legally . once every 20 years, residents of rural areas of the krasnoyarsk territory can

receive almost 200 cubic meters of timber for free for building a house for outbuildings or carrying out repairs, naturally, none of them goes into the taiga with a saw and an ax; for this, there is a special team of harvesters who are almost round they live in the forest for a year, there are such people in the ifkansky district, the krasnoyarsk territory, they are in no hurry to work valko, but over the past couple of years the case. they unexpectedly added contracts for the harvesting of timber for the needs of citizens to sprinkle, as from the horn and the sounding of the first, the police sounded the alarm in the kansk and neighboring areas , an operational group was urgently sent in order. the police understood that they had

to examine several thousand square kilometers, so they prepared thoroughly in the village of ilansky, it was decided to organize a headquarters here, the service kamaz avtodom was located. first, they conducted an inspection from a helicopter, and neighboring areas flew and then the operational groups, together with the employees of the forest guard, dispersed to the taiga plots. the violation was found right away, but here it turns out 42 hectares - this is the total area or neighbors, but covered with illegal about 15 hectares of legal ones that cut down the local population. that is, this is fresh this this year the pipe was produced. right

now here, that is, it is not necessary to count, that is, there contracts were concluded with citizens with the local population, and they themselves already independently studied the documents and soon. realized that hundreds in need of a tree the inhabitants of the district, in fact, received nothing. at the same time, the documents spoke about the opposite for everyone who now lives in all fie, here in a private house, let's say, like a piece of forest, if we don't use it, then we are supposed to be compensated. i was told that now they have won everything will be closed. we ourselves gave the documents to do everything to buy, then contacted you. a certain rita yeah, and said that you can drive up, how to sign documents and get money pensioner, elena petrovna ivanova could not even think that she could

deceive because the meeting did not take place anywhere, but in a notary's office. and they gave us papers. i began to read. and how would you read on me? come on, sign the contract, i didn’t have any skills, they handed me the amount of 3,000 rubles. such foolish as elena ivanova turned out to be many, they were divided approximately equally and alone and did not suspect that they had become victims of deception. but others themselves provided passport data for a small fee facial scam, but who developed such an encouraged fraud scheme is a long time to look i didn't have to. the former employee of the kansk administration produced packages of necessary documents, then this package was handed over to alice by the procurer of the districts i indicated. yes, which

already turned to the forestry and already the forestry allocated plots, and on which wood was harvested further, but it was harvested not for transferring it to individuals, but was used for commercial purposes, that is, for selling and making a profit in your pocket. most of the participants in the fraud with the forest were immediately detained and filed criminal case under the article organization of a criminal community, according to the investigation , the head of the group of swindlers was the former head of the municipal property management committee of the administration. kansk andrey sotnikov what scheme of illegal enrichment was invented by a former krasnoyarsk official. and how was the meeting with members of the criminal community. we will tell a little later, but now we will go to the irkutsk region. more recently

, they entered the forest on local roads, an endless stream of their number could not be counted, a car, on which timber was transported without documents, the locals called it thieves. now the situation has changed radically, our film crew together with the so-called forestry department of the regional headquarters. i went to the taiga along the way and checked several timber trucks. good afternoon. where is the forest from? hello forest legal or stolen real hard work? yes already don't go, i didn't drive it, never drove it, recently got a job only recently. how much pay.

how many employees will you have? show show, so tell me what should be the driver who carries the forest. what order of documents is the consignment note timber transportation contract, the delivery contract should be i don't know, the declaration the police officers carefully studied the documents and released the driver. and we drove up to the village, khomutovo, which is 30 km from irkutsk, there is a large sawmill, where for many years in a row they brought or stolen wood of about a dozen workers. all of them are natives of the central asian republics. so we pass by and look at the workplace of the guys who, probably, saw

wood. went to stand. what is the name what is the name do you not understand russian? where did 10-15 thousand come from? and you what do you do?

in the meantime, the employees of the forest police department went about their usual business, began to fish out the workers hiding in the corners of the sawmill and demanded to show their passports. as i understand it, you all came from uzbekistan , yes, yes, what do you do? the sawmill works . and what are your duties? yes how many thousands per month is not enough normal?

dirty mattresses, dirty clothes, we see here bags, documents, personal belongings. this is how the citizens of uzbekistan live on this sawmill. the dining room is also in such a general, neglected state, everything is dirty, apparently here. here they are preparing, probably, pilaf. this is how citizens who come to this facility live in terrible conditions.

the police work, in my opinion, there is. there are no documents. what is your name? andrey vladimirovich surname safonov profession is there a driver?

for the winter, father and son safonov, tried to pity the police, they say, they sawed the forest for firewood only for themselves, so as not to freeze in winter and willingly showed us their simple economy. yes, yes, the car is yours, well of course there is a car, of ​​course, there are come, let's go winter is coming soon. there is nothing to do in the forest, mosquitoes and all sorts of midges will eat it, the father will load the son, wood roulette

candy bar. the younger safonov dmitry said that he was studying at college as an excavator driver, he convinced us that as a thief in the forest he was for the first time they did not understand that they were stealing that they had come to the forest, of course, it’s understandable, and now you and your son will have to answer. you understand, no, i don’t understand, yes, whether they began to steal less, they do n’t steal at all. i didn't even see or hear. here you go, at least it's quiet today. there are not even traces , nowhere was confirmed by an employee of the

kirov forestry, on whose territory the events unfolded. now there are fewer poachers in the forest than it is connected. relations the whole day our film crew traveled along the taiga roads of the irkutsk region black loggers, we did not meet any more. although a few years ago it would not have been necessary to look for them

, to be more precise, they stole the forest without hesitation. for a number of years, the irkutsk region was in an extremely difficult situation, associated with illegal logging, nevertheless, the trend of the last, probably, two years is as follows. so we are seeing a decline. moreover, a significant decrease in the volume of illegal pipes, if in the seventeenth year we recorded about a million cubic meters of illegally harvested wood, then in the twentieth year it already reached 400,000. that is, in fact, there was a decrease more than two times. today, more than 5,000 enterprises are located in the irkutsk region, whose work is related to logging. of these, 1,600 points for the reception and primary processing of wood, according to official statistics, about 30 million cubic meters of wood are harvested annually in the region over the past 5 years, employees of the main directorate of the ministry of internal affairs of russia for the irkutsk

region stopped the activities of three organized criminal communities 94 organized criminal groups detained more than 500 participants the police achieved results it was thanks to such endless raids that we visited together with employees of the forestry department of the irkutsk headquarters and painstaking paper work. today in the irkutsk taiga they don't shoot, and those members of the forest gangs who managed to avoid criminal prosecution prefer to forget about the past and work legally. now the main burden on forestry issues lies with the customs authorities ; exporters have a hard time with them, every now and then they try to deceive the customs officers.

bad times no one does, they pray meet. here's the infusion, they've been praying for it for 2,000 years. what is the hebrew word for bridegroom? you do not know?

almost half of the irkutsk forest goes to export. mostly. these are not processed tree trunks. this is beneficial for buyers, because customs duties in this case are minimal, and from next year you will be banned from so-called round timber. so now the merchants are seriously fussing. railway dead ends, on which tens of kilometers of wagons with the so

-called round timber of unprocessed timber are now in the summer of 2021, the entrepreneur is trying to send it abroad as much as possible around irkutsk . giant logs are sawing four or six meters in length, then they stack the stacks, sort and load the wagons. and especially valuable breeds for example cedar in containers. after that, the entrepreneur declares the goods at the customs authorities. it is clear that with such volumes it is simply impossible to control everything. your employees do not inspect 100% libra, uh, the goods that go through irkutsk. no , of course, it is impossible, physically, physically. we cannot view it. uh, on average , about 55 vehicles a day. this is a container of this wagons specifically with timber with round wood. how does it detect intruders?