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Four Russian servicemen killed in militant shelling in eastern Syria
[PRESSTV] The Russian Defense Ministry says four of its servicemen have bit the dust after foreign-sponsored Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...forces of Evil launched an attack against an artillery battery of the Syrian army in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. The ministry said in a statement on Sunday that two Russian military advisers, who directed the fire of the Syrian battery, were killed on the spot, while five more sustained injuries and were taken to a Russian military hospital to receive treatment. Two servicemen succumbed to their grave injuries shortly afterwards. The statement added that some 43 forces of Evil were killed in the ensuing festivities, which lasted for around an hour, without saying exactly when or where the fighting occurred. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights later claimed that nine Russian soldiers alongside at least 26 Syrian army troopers had been killed in the Wednesday attack. Posted by: Fred 2018-05-28 |
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