Their vehicles were identified on another board I frequent based on photographs from the Russian media. They’re driving around in old T-62 tanks and old Russian military trucks with Vostok graffiti spray-painted all over them. Apparently Russia doesn’t trust them with modern military equipment, but the Russians never seem to throw anything away and had no problem arming them with early 60’s vintage tanks out of their junkyards… go figure.

In short, Russia seems to have sent in all the outlaws, brigands, thugs, and gangster paramilitaries that plague the area to have some fun at Georgian expense.