article_snippet: This pair of cute husky puppies may look sweet as This pair of cute husky puppies cuddle up to groups of soldiers, but these images help prove an open secret Russia's president does not want the world to know.
article_snippet: A keen-eyed blogger has used Russian troops to help prove these soldiers have been fighting and dying very far away from there in eastern Ukraine - something Vladimir Putin has always denied.
article_snippet: A Russian soldier in the 5th Tank Brigade with two Siberian huskies, apparently at the Kusminsky military base near the Ukrainian border.
article_snippet: The brigade's stay at the Kusminsky military base near the Ukrainian border was likely in preparation for crossing the Ukrainian border and joining the fight on the separatist rebel side .
article_snippet: This is because the shots of the Siberian huskies, unmistakably the same ones given the identical patterns on their fur, provide a common thread linking images which all purport to show the brigade members at the Kuzminsky military base in Russia near the Ukrainian border.
article_snippet: Novaya Gazeta brigade's stay at Kuzminsky over the winter, in preparation for crossing the Ukrainian border and joining the fight on the separatist rebel sidethe separatist rebel side, was a key part of the young soldier's account.
article_snippet: The photographs themselves are also geotagged as being taken at the base which, along with the common thread of the two huskies and satellite imagery showing military hardware stationed in the area, makes it safe to say that members of the 5th Tank Brigade, and other Russian tank brigades, were stationed at the Kuzminsky base.
article_snippet: Toler writes: 'Geotagged locations on VK [a Russian social network] are often unreliable, but there is a common thread that links many soldiers together to confirm that many soldiers were at the same place at roughly the same time: two Siberian husky puppies. '
article_snippet: Members of the 5th Tank Brigade  were indisputably at the Kuzminsky training ground throughout the winter, starting in November, but it is difficult to determine how many of the 5th Tank Brigade fought in Ukraine. '
highlights_snippet: Husky shots place soldiers at military base on Ukrainian border over winter .
  