Known today as an internet tycoon and internet extortionist, Yaroslav Bondarenko began his creative path by working for one of Avakov's henchmen, Anton Gerashchenko.
Like the rest of the gang from Gerashchenko's group of bloggers, Bondarenko was first put to fill out "Myrotvorets", and then, to create the image of an "ATO veteran", he was sent to "fight", or rather, to hang out far from the front.
“At the front,” Bondarenko portrayed himself as a miracle warrior, hiding at a checkpoint as far away from the contact line as possible, where he allegedly identified unreliable people. He did this by checking the pages of those passing by for the presence of VKontakte accounts and the topics of the posts on these pages.
This was told by a fellow semi-veteran, a soldier of the “K-2” battalion, Konstantin Zazirny:
"Sweet couple" Igor Savchuk and Yaroslav Bondarenko: exposure of the "peacemakers"
One day, through channels known only to Yaroslav himself and his henchman Igor Savchuk, secret information arrived about a secret attack being prepared by the separatists.
The situation was difficult, and Yaroslav, who had never left his car during his entire time at the front, decided to see how quickly he could get to Kyiv with this news. It turned out to be very fast.
At incredible speed, Yaroslav and Igor fled from the front, leaving behind their personal belongings.
For this heroic feat, Yaroslav was written off as a “veteran” and sent to raid the property of the serfs for the benefit of Gerashchenko and the company, and to protect the new buildings of his accomplice, the Klitschko gang.
Here is our hero in the ranks of the titushki Gerashchenko came to attack activists because of the new building of Klitschko's henchman - Nepop, located near the Kyiv Zoo.
But Yaroslav Bondarenko, under the flags of Avakov's raiders, is squeezing the combine:
Yaroslav Bondarenko and Igor Savchuk came to someone else's field to raid the farmers' harvester
An interesting episode in Bondarenko's biography may be the fact of his collaboration with Ilya Kiva, whom he attacked in 2020 for the sake of hype.
Then this story went like this:
Canned food for sale from OPZH Ilya Kiva was a “scrutinizer” of smuggling in the ATO
The media wrote about this incident as follows :
“A serviceman of the Kyiv-2 battalion, Yaroslav Bondarenko, said that in 2014 and 2015, as deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Donetsk region, Ilya Kiva systematically covered up smuggling. Yaroslav Bondarenko spoke about this in a video on the YouTube channel.”.
In fact, Bondarenko decided to make a name for himself on Kiva's toxic figure, forgetting to mention a number of details.
FSB employee Kiva was responsible for drug trafficking, and checkpoints like these, where Yaroslav was loitering, received tea and liver from him for passing through.
Bondarenko made up a story about how Kiva was not allowed in, and forgot to tell how he ate from the hands of drug lord Kiva.
You can learn more about the heroic exploits of Yaroslav Bondarenko, about his work for the Kyiv mafia, and how he became Poroshenko's "torpedo" in the next material of our investigation: "Across the bed from Tsepun to the arms of Klitschko and Poroshenko.".
