The names of Russian military contractors reportedly killed in clashes between U.S.-led coalition and pro-Syrian government forces last week have begun to surface.

An estimated 100 pro-Syrian regime fighters were killed in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in the southeastern province of Deir Ezzor last Wednesday. Russia partially withdrew its forces from Syria in December 2017 after two years fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad, though hundreds of its private military contractors remain in the country.



The Reuters news agency spoke Monday with two people who said that Russian fighters Vladimir Loginov and Kirill Ananyev were killed with ‘dozens‘ of other Russians on Feb. 7.

The open-source investigation collective Conflict Intelligence Team corroborated reports of Loginov’s death in Syria and added three names to the list: Alexei Ladygin, Stanislav Matveyev and Igor Kosoturov.

’It is notable that the posts about their deaths emerged rather quickly — relatives and colleagues often learn of Russian mercenaries’ deaths weeks or even months after the fact,‘ CIT said in a Facebook post.

The investigative team said the total number of Russian victims of the airstrike is unlikely to be established, but said ‘it is beyond doubt that this incident indeed took place.’

Although Russia’s Defense Ministry said no uniformed Russian soldiers were killed in the U.S. coalition strike, an ex-commander of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine claimed two tactical units of the Wagner private military group had been hit that day.

’I didn’t even know that he went [to Syria]. I am simply in shock," Matveyev’s cousin Igor Patsko told the RBC business portal.

rusija nema military contratcors..

inace amerikanci su preuvelicivali svoje uspehe i u prvom svetskom ratu...

i u drugom...i u ratu u vijetnamu i avganistanu...ili iraku...i ucesce u kuvajtu...i mnogom drugim slucajevima...

recimo jedan od slucajeva je i nato bombardovanje...gde su pogodili nista...

inace istocne sluzbe bezbednosti se prakticno sve slazu u proceni da je dnevno obaran u proseku po jedan avion...

znaci kao minimum se radi od desetinama oborenih letilica strana nato...

evo i rat u siriji...i tzv aktivni oklop tenkova abrams 2 koje su kurdi unistili reketama kineske proizvodnje crvenastrela...

70tih godina proizvodnje...

bez obzira kako se to vama cinilo...mogucnost amerikanaca da nesto urade uopste bilo gde u svetu...

osim pafoza i galame je prakticno ravna nuli...i operacija 99te je to pokazala...

sa povratkom krima rusiji...gde se trenutno provodi ozbiljan posao na vojnom planu...

izmenice celu situaciju u crnom moru sto ce uticati narocito na bugarsku i grcku...i svakako na srbiju...

kompletan kontigent koji se nalazi na granicama rusije i u prinbaltici i u drugim zemljama...

potpuno je vojno zatvoren izmestanjem dela pskovske divizije na zapad....

koji su najfanaticniji deo armije rf...

Ma jok semenke 
Nemaju uopste 

to su sve dobrovoljci...

Isti kurac, dobrovoljci koji dobijaju platu, isto kao i oni na istoku Ukrajine.
Isti su oni sa Amerima, tu nema razlike.
Neko ce da ide da ratuje godinama chisto zarad ratovanja? Kako da ne.

Evo amerikanci imaju stotine privatnih firmi koje izmedju ostalog vrse i vojne operacije sirom sveta...

od bivsheg blackwatersa...sada nekakvih panisheri...do sasvim malih...koji se bave obzebedjenjem...itd...

e to su placenici...

npr...placenici nece da ratuju za ideju...

inace tamo ima mnogo nasih ljudi...znam mnoge licno...

Svi oni dobijaju pare, i internacionalne kompanije regrutuju konstantno. Bio ti dobrovoljac ili ne, ti radis za svoj interes i dobijas platu od toga, jer ko bi bio lud da ide da godinama ratuje za konzervu pasulja i malo leba. Nema tu logike. Mozes ti to da bojis kako zelis, ali istina ostaje istina.  Tako je stari Puta ubacio Ruse u Ukrajinu. Ok, bili su oni "dobrovoljci" koje neko placa, i neko salje. Bio ti tu na jedan ili na drugi nacin, nije bitno, tu si, znaci dosao si da ratujes, i tu je kraj svake price.  I sad kao ispade Rusi kaslju na pare, ne bi oni nikada uzeli rublju.
Imas brdo Rusa koji rade za Haliburton, Academi i druge kompanije shirom sveta, ovo nije ni prvi ni poslednji put.

nisi to nikakve internacionalne kompanije...

ti si covek naivan u svom neznanju...