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What do the elite Russian special unit Senezh, swinger dating sites, and beadwork have in common? A special-purpose serviceman of Russia’s elite unit Senezh, Denis Kutsev!
From our own sources, Slidstvo.info obtained messages from Kutsev’s wife. In the messages, everything Russia fights against with such zeal is present: debauchery, dirt, and involving a child in sexual games.
What is Senezh?
“Senezh is an elite unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in particular part of the Special Operations Forces,” explains Artas, a service member of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. The unit’s special operators take part in operations where concealing Russia’s involvement is needed — seizing Crimea, eliminating the Syrian opposition, conducting diversions on the Ukrainian border. Their base is in the town of Solnechnogorsky in the Moscow region.
“This unit is directly connected with Putin because it was created 5 in March 1999. It was a period when Putin was head of the FSB of the Russian Federation. The current center commander is Major General Aleksei Galkin. He is essentially Putin’s confidant. Putin visited the Senezh deployments for two days this year during Christmas. So this is not just some personal guard or favorite unit; it is also an important story for him from the perspective of personal relations with the unit’s leadership,” says Slidstvo.info’s source in the SOF.
The service member adds that Senezh conducts diversions on Ukraine’s border. “They actively pushed the myth of their invincibility, that they are masters of the border,” says Artas.
A loving husband fighting hair loss.
The hero of this story is 41-year-old Denis Kutsev. He, judging by journalists’ collected data, has multi-month deployments and may be involved in war crimes. It is already known that civilians were killed or abducted by soldiers of Senezh in Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
Denis Kutsev, service member of Russia’s elite unit Senezh.
After school, Denis Kutsev served in the border troops, and soon went to fight in Chechnya as part of a reconnaissance platoon 72 of the motorized rifle regiment (military unit 42839), for which he received the medal “For Participation in Counterterrorist Operations.” He later served in a police regiment in Altai Krai. For the last ten years Kutsev has been a service member of Senezh, specifically of the military unit 92154 in Solnechnogorsk.
Parallel to his service, Denis Kutsev earned a higher education. In 2014, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Management from Altai State Technical University. He later studied part-time at the School of Policy and Business, majoring in Personnel Management.
Journalists from Slidstvo.Info uncovered curious messages in the wife’s correspondence. At one point Denis Kutsev wanted to treat his baldness and transplant hair, but the operation required traveling to Turkey. “Too bad… My job won’t let me go abroad,” Denis replied from his wife’s mailbox.
This is an important detail, because in her messages his wife showed that Denis was on long deployments. This allowed Slidstvo.Info to infer that he travels to the Ukrainian border with Senezh.
Senezh’s activity on the Ukrainian border.
According to a service member of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, on Ukrainian territory Senezh conducts diversions, plans attacks on positions, captures hostages, sets ambushes, and destroys civilians.
“Overall, Senezh tries to destroy everyone they see, with whom they cross paths. They fear that civilians will report groups, their composition, and movement routes, so they liquidate them. Yet there are also cases of deliberate killings of civilians, even without detecting a group. When Senezh themselves actively begin killing,” says Slidstvo.Info’s interlocutor in the Defense Forces.
Earlier, civilian killings by this unit were detailed by the OSINT community Molfar. In particular, they reported a kind of “test” for new recruits of Senezh — to capture and kill a person. The article said they did this during diversions in Ukraine.
“Young specialists who join Senezh must be in the know. This dehumanizes them so they can better follow orders,” says Artem Starosek, CEO and founder of the intelligence agency Molfar.
A mysterious soul of a Russian swinger serviceman.
The material obtained and verified by Slidstvo.Info journalists’ correspondence of Denis Kutsev’s wife Darya confirms that for many years the couple actively used swinger-dating sites to seek sexual partners. Some of these activities are illegal.
Darya and Denis Kutsev.
Darya and Denis Kutsev.
Darya and Denis Kutsev.
From 2015 year, Darya Kutseva sent intriguing photos to potential partners. At that time they were just starting out. “We also have no experience, there is only a desire,” she wrote.
Among those conversations we found messages with a certain Sergey Savkin. He asked to send intimate photos and try sex with three. Darya replied: “Well, we have tried such a format. We would like to try with a couple or with a girl.”
Sometimes Kutseva contemplated values: “I don’t know if family values apply, but respect from a man towards me is very important to me. I know Denis cares about this too. It’s also important to spend time together in a way that is necessary for both, not just a duty or service. A couple should have a common goal that both must pursue hand in hand. If there is no goal, the marriage is doomed. That is my family motto.”
In 2018 year, Darya Kutseva registered on the swingerlife.ru site under the name DenisDasha. So at first she didn’t mind remaining incognito. However, later the site’s policy changed and Dasha’s and Denis’s accounts were re-registered on other resources. We also gained access to those.
From the chats on that site, it becomes clear that Darya Kutseva hunts for partners not only for herself. In dialogues with men she indicates that not only is she looking for a person for sex, but that “the husband is in the loop.” In another dialogue the woman shares her sexual taboos and emphasizes that she is married.
The wife revealed her husband’s rotation schedule.
When not in overt correspondence (or during it), Darya braids beadwork, and shares crafts on her Telegram channel “Beadwork Fakery.”
It is precisely thanks to this Telegram channel that we were able to track the rotation schedule of her husband — the service member of Senezh Denis Kutsev.
3 June 2025 in her Telegram channel “Beadwork Fakery,” Darya wrote: “Then my husband returned from a long deployment on Sunday.” We cross-checked the days with a calendar and understood that this happened 1 June. And 8 December of the same year 2025 the woman wrote in a post: “Two weeks ago my husband went on a deployment for 3 months. As a result, my evenings are completely free now.”
From this it follows that Kutsev spends 3 months on duty, and then 6 months at home.
“They have rotations. They go out near the area of their tasks. They are located on the territory of the Russian Federation and from there enter in groups of varying size, depending on their task. And after completing the task or failing it they return back,” says Artas, a SOF service member.
At the beginning of March 2026, Darya decided to greet her followers on the first day of spring, and between the lines added: “But on Friday my husband returned, spring has begun today, and thus we hope for the babbling of streams, bright sun, buds on trees, and that in all regions we will have a pleasant, warm spring.” Probably this time Denis returned home 27 February. If the schedule is accurate, Denis Kutsev may already be at positions and conducting diversions in Ukraine from early September.
Corrupting his own daughter.
In numerous correspondences journalists found confirmation that Denis and Darya Kutsevi may be involving their underage daughter in their perverse games.
In July this year, when Denis Kutsev was probably still at home on vacation, Darya wrote to a certain Yakov Stepanov that together with her husband they are looking for people to have a threesome. She then proposed an “experiment”: involve a little girl as a spectator who would observe, and if she likes it, perhaps touch.
The Kutsev family.
After this Darya sent a family selfie with their daughter and husband, and asked Yakov to send his photos. The man began asking clarifying questions about the girl. Darya replied that the girl is 14 years old, and that they have already had experience with her several times. If this concerns their daughter Yana, she will soon turn 14, and at the time of the correspondence she was 13 years old.
Yakov initially panicked and even wanted to run to the police, but eventually left his number for contact. This helped Slidstvo.Info journalists learn his real name. Most likely, the man Hamlet Gasparian is behind the name Yakov Stepanov. Journalists found his page on VKontakte and wrote to him, but at the time of publication they had not received a reply to messages or calls.
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