As previously reported, Syrian Assistant State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party was killed by Mikhail Degtyarev Sergey Morozov, who fought there as a volunteer. It became known from a Reuters investigation into the Russians, killed in Syrian war.
This information was confirmed he Degtyarev. However, he declined to specify the circumstances, referring to the fact, that previously gave exhaustive media comments.
“In recent years he has returned to his roots, He moved to Kuban, he Cossack. The military, he was not exactly, simple guy, families, small-scale entrepreneur. A few years communication with him was not. I know, that he went as a volunteer in the Donbass, I am standing on the side of militia DNR”, - commented on the situation Degtyarev RIA “news”.
According to Reuters, In March this year, the assistant deputy Morozov was wounded in Syria near Palmyra, where then were active fighting for the liberation of the ancient city. On the way, he died in a local hospital. According to Reuters, Morozov took part in the Russian operations in Syria as a mercenary private military company.
Former Russian officer and a volunteer in the Ukrainian conflict with the call said the agency Capa, that, too, was a friend of Morozov, as well as with several other Russians, who fought in the Ukraine, and then went to Syria with “group Wagner”.
According to Reuters interlocutor, Morozov was disappointed, when he is speaking at an event LDPR, but to him no one listened. He rejected the offer to participate in the lucrative business and joined his comrades in Syria.
Participated in the battles in Ukraine, the Russians brought to ground operations in Syria, when it became clear, that the Syrians alone can not effectively participate in ground operations, despite the support of Russian air.
“By themselves, the Arabs - they are not warriors, and their skomplektovat, and they need to storm the heights. Little of, they do not know, as it is to storm, they have yet to step through itself and go on a bullet. How do they make it? Only by example”, - Capa said.
Capa confirmed Reuters, his companions interacted with the Russian army in Syria. According to agency sources, familiar with a few dead Russians in Syria, Russian citizens arrive in Syria on ships, coming into port in Tartous, leased by the Russian Navy, or on military aircraft, who land on the Russian airbase Hmeymim. A doctor from the Russian military hospital told Reuters, that the wounded are taken to the Russian military planes, and then treated in hospitals.
Officially, the Russian military engaged only in military air operations in the skies over Syria, with a small number of special operations forces on the ground. However, Reuters claims, that in the course of interviews with more than a dozen people, directly familiar with the mission, he was able to find out, that Russian soldiers play a more significant role in ground combat operations. interlocutor of the agency called the Russian soldiers “mercenaries”, working for private military company.
earlier edition “Fontanka” contended, that the present name of Wagner - Dmitri Utkin. Russian media also wrote in detail about the train at the military training ground in Krasnodar Krai Molkino fighters private military company, known as “Wagner group”, who participated in military operations in Syria and Ukraine.
Kremlin, The Defense Ministry and the Syrian authorities did not respond to Reuters questions about his relationship to “Wagner group”.
State Duma Committee on Defense members supported the initiative of the Government to grant the Russians the possibility to enter into short-term military contracts only during specific tasks during counter-terrorism operations outside of Russia.
The explanatory note to the document specified, that the legislative change needed “in connection with the intensification of the activities of international terrorist and extremist organizations”.
“Of the total number of citizens, applied on the enlistment contract, about 20 percent expressed their desire to enter into contracts for a short period of time to participate in specific activities or transactions”, - said in a memorandum to the bill on the official website of legal information.
“Such a bill would provide an opportunity to legalize the voluntary formation of the Ministry of Defense, performing combat missions in hot spots, including in Syria”, - says one of the authors of the book “Syrian frontier”, independent military expert Anton Lavrov.
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