The front as a business: the draft-dodger Oleksandr Slobozhenko profits from the geodata of soldiers for Russian casinos

The front as a business: the draft-dodger Oleksandr Slobozhenko profits from the geodata of soldiers for Russian casinos

The latest story sheds light on the elite couch troops and their ruler Slobozhenko, showing how he amuses himself with friends through car rides abroad.

A reader wrote to the editorial office of a publication and shared new facts about this story. Below is the text edited for censorship reasons.

"Hi. I know Slobozhenko has already pissed off everyone, but I can’t calmly watch him trying to wriggle out. A recent story by Tkacha from "Ukrainian Pravda" about the elite couch troops and their king Slobozhenko came out, showing how he entertains himself riding abroad with friends in his cars.

Frankly, I don’t care about his money or whether he earned it honestly. I don’t care that he has a white card, the ability to travel abroad, and so on. What bothers me is that he endlessly publicizes how he helps Ukraine while promoting Russian casinos.

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Tkacha’s investigation stirred up a storm of sh*t, and Sasha is seriously in trouble. Sasha allegedly cannot serve due to health, though he actively lifts weights, does flips, and more. Now he is in so much pain and fear that his PR people can’t keep up. Even his longtime friend “Joker,” known in certain circles as a bot handler, managed to benefit and claimed that Sanya helps just for the sake of it and doesn’t publicize himself at all.

See how Slobozhenko doesn’t publicize every 3 posts on his channel.

But okay with that PR: you give money - your right, but the problem is that Sasha helps a penny but harms a million. Intentionally or not is another question.

In 2 years of war, he literally struck gold. In the car fleet, 18+ elite cars. In 2023, he bought 2 apartments in an elite residential complex Taryan Towers for $700k in Kyiv, on Ioanna Pavla II street (Patrice Lumumba street). Held GGate in Dubai with Instasamka and others in partnership with Russian casinos 1WIN, 1XBET, and PinUP for $1.4 million.

Again, I don’t care how much he earns; there are much richer people. The question is how he does it. Sasha simply drives traffic for casinos, and Traffic Devils are targeted at the juiciest segment for casinos – soldiers at the forefront. No need to say these are adults and can decide for themselves. A soldier is in an unusual situation, they can’t sit on a bike and have fun riding in the park. They have money, they need some distraction, but options to have fun in the trenches are not many.

Traffic targeted at military from Slobozhenko is purchased not only by Ukrainian casinos but openly Russian ones, which somehow still operate in Ukraine. For example, Cosmolot (spacеix) beloved friend of Misha Fedorov, 1WIN, PinUp, 1xbet. Here’s a bit of market share statistics and as you can see the guys are doing just great. 

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Advertising aimed at the military is ongoing, growing and becoming more aggressive. According to information from a EP article, in 2021 gambling and betting TV advertising accounted for 1.4%, and by 2023 this number grew to 1.7%. By 2024 the share of such advertising in the total time of all advertising segments on TV increased to 3%. In previous years this figure ranged from 0.6% to 1%.

According to data from the Institute of Mass Information, from June to October 2023, the share of indirect advertising in favor of the gambling sector in the news feeds of leading online platforms increased from 12.4% to 16.4%.

But in my view, the worst thing isn’t the advertising in Kyiv on the streets where a person simply has a choice, but the advertising aimed at soldiers who don’t have such a choice. As for the Russian casinos, not only the money is important, it’s more of a pleasant bonus. The entire gaming industry in the RF is run by the special services. Sergey Tokarev once fled to Ukraine and opened Luckylabs because his business was taken away from him in the RF. For the special services, it is important to obtain precise data on the location of the military, which they can later use for targeted strikes on the accumulation of Ukrainian troops.

Nonsense? No. Websites 1win, PinUp, Cosmolot, and other casinos track IP supposedly to ensure a person doesn’t have two accounts at once, not to mention some require documents for verification. Casino operators can learn the location of users with an accuracy of several meters. Particularly at Cosmolot in the "Privacy Policy" section of the mobile application, it is stated they collect information about the user’s exact location.

How to use it? Here’s one example. A strike on the 128th brigade was conducted thanks to the geolocation obtained from the phone. Of course, one could say it’s just a coincidence.

And here’s another coincidence that occurred on April 15, 2024. A series of rocket strikes was made on a military training ground in the area of Chuguiv city, Kharkiv region. Notably, and also coincidentally, during this attack, the author of a petition to restrict the operation of online casinos, Pavel Petrychenko, died.

Quote: "There are numerous cases when gambling-addicted servicemen spend all their monetary support on games and take out microloans, putting themselves and their families in ’debt pits,’ or pawn drones and thermal imagers, thus harming not only themselves but also their comrades. The gambling business exploits this vulnerability by deliberately targeting its advertising at servicemen, using the symbolism of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in their online casinos and ‘whitewashing’ their activities with small charitable donations in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." 

And surely just a coincidence that immediately after this attack, me and my friends who supported the petition began receiving calls and messages with threats. 

This is why I believe Slobozhenko is a scum, young and successful scum, who even if not directly involved, is a crucial link in all this mess. He is an accomplice and he knows it. This is why he is hiding in Cyprus now and is not in a hurry to return home. 

That’s why all his property is registered to his grandmother, and the Traffic Devils firm five months ago to his mother. Grandma by the way is also involved.

On 12.04 a woman decided to open a sole proprietorship with IT NACE codes and got into IT just as the grandson’s funds were under threat. There are no claims to his relatives, basically, they have no choice, unlike Sasha, who now consciously or unconsciously helps the non-humans trying to ruin Ukraine from within".