In the last 10 days of October, a number of foreign and Russia media outlets reported that Russian mercenaries were fighting on the side of Bashar Assad in Syria. Petersburg, and the Russian mercenary killed in Syria turned out to be a soldier who was alive and working for a private security company on the 9 th day after the notice of his death. The surprise is that the recruitment center turned out to be in St. Fontanka has confirmed this in the course of verifying information about the death of Russians who had supposedly gone to war on a contract with a Hong Kong company. Rumors about armed Russian citizens taking part in the Syrian conflict on the side of Bashar Assad turn out to be true.
UPDATE: We have posted the latest update from Fontanka, The Last Battle of the “Slavonic Corps”: The story of the Russian mercenaries who went to war against Syrian rebels. However, the mercenary group was shut down and several mercenaries were arrested upon their return to Russia. The FSB, therefore, were aware that the group was sending Russian fighters to Syria. It says that the mercenary group was working with the head of Moran Security Group, FSB lieutenant colonel in the reserve Vyacheslav Kalashnikov.
Petersburg. We have also translated a more recent article published by Fontanka. ”Īccording to documents published below, the Slavonic Corps had signed an agreement with the Moran Security Group, which is, “an international group of companies offering premier security, transportation, medical, rescue, and consulting services. “īelow is a translation from an article published on Fontanka, one of the most popular and most respected newspapers from St. These measures should be necessarily interpreted in favor of primary military forces of the country, according to the general order. “…in high risk areas, in particular in areas of military actions where actions of the Company itself and of its employees are rather deterrent than attacking so they allow some preventive options.
The mercenaries reportedly worked for the Slavonic Corps, a contractor registered in Hong Kong that operates: At least one of the mercenaries, however, has been videotaped alive and well, and is living back in Russia. The jihadist fighters from an Al Qaeda affiliate “Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS)” claim to have killed the mercenaries in a battle near Homs. A Syrian rebel group claims that it has ambushed and killed a group of Russian mercenaries who may have been working for a Chinese security contractor.