Russian military personnel leaked secret documents and passwords to an open Telegram chat for almost a year
Journalists from ASTRA discovered a public group on Telegram with the telling name "Bl*dskaya Organizatsiya" (F**king Organization). For almost an entire year, links to closed command meetings, as well as secret orders from the headquarters of the Russian 5th Army, were posted there daily.
Links to video conferences for chiefs of staff, political officers (zampolits), and command officers of the 143rd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment were found in open access. In addition, personnel lists, tables of video surveillance system locations, ammunition requests, and even logins, passwords, and two-factor authentication keys for viewing drone broadcasts were dumped into the chat.
Among the leaks were also secret orders from the headquarters of the 5th Army. For instance, an order dated December 7, 2025, instructed specific units (including the 127th Motorized Rifle Division and the 218th Tank Regiment) to create fake positions. Military personnel were supposed to simulate vehicle movement and light bonfires, as well as film this as "pro-Ukrainian locals" to misinform Ukrainian intelligence. The documents specified the exact coordinates of these objects.
An order from August 2025 indicated that Russian assault troops were suffering serious losses due to poor supplies and low robot effectiveness. The command urgently demanded that automated combat platforms be equipped with Starlink terminals.
Minute-by-minute plans for fictitious radio exchanges to deceive radio intelligence assets, as well as special code names for rivers in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions (for example, the "Huychur" river was called "Volga"), which officers used in conversations, also fell into the network.
The chat was updated regularly until one of the administrators noticed at the end of April that strangers had begun joining the group en masse.
"Who are these people joining? What is their purpose here? Then incomprehensible stories begin about data leaks, hacked accounts. Security above all else," wrote the owner of the open group.
On May 4, the channel ceased to be maintained, but its entire history remained open.
The ASTRA publication caused shock in the Z-community. Russian military blogger "Ugolnyy iz doma" (Coal from Home) confirmed that an inspection arrived due to the leak and furiously called to "put journalists on knives" (i.e., attack or kill them).
At the same time, he admitted that the use of civilian messengers in the army is an "unpleasant fact" and added that the command chose the perfect name for the chat, as one couldn't better describe the state of affairs at the headquarters.
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