To cut to the chase, the article tells us, this guy was killed in an American airstrike over there. And the Russian press found it out, that Novaya Gazeta does good work, a few of those periodicals do. It sounds like he may have died in the American airstrike when we were defending this and these "soldiers of fortune" looked like they were going to attack our base. Whoever sent them to do that bears responsibility for the many who died.
Journalists identify two Russian mercenaries involved in brutal Syrian murder, including one who likely served with Wagner PMC leader
9:51 am, December 13, 2019 Source: Meduza
One of the mercenaries who took part in torturing and beheading a Syrian deserter is pictured in 2017.
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In 2017, a deserter from Bashar al-Assad’s army was murdered. His body was then dismembered and burned. In November 2019, Novaya Gazeta revealed that mercenaries from the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) had taken part in the killing. The newspaper also published a video of the alleged Russian mercenaries cutting off the Syrian’s head. Russian media sources subsequently identified three of the fighters; now, the St. Petersburg-based outlet Fontanka has identified two more who may have been involved and discovered the real last name of one of the hired soldiers.
One of the soldiers whose identity Fontanka discovered is 34-year-old Pskov resident Vladimir B., who had previously undergone military service in Dagestan. The outlet indicated that he attempted to sever the victim’s neck vertebrae using an entrenching shovel. In the video, he is referred to as “Vova,†a nickname for Vladimir.
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Vladislav Apostol is a Russian citizen born in Moldova. He was killed in Syria on the night of February 7, 2018, during a U.S. airstrike, as Current Time had previously reported. Apostol’s mother confirmed on social media that her son had been a “soldier of fortune†and that he had died in Syria.
Read more at: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/13/journalists-identify-two-russian-mercenaries-involved-in-brutal-syrian-murder-including-one-who-likely-served-with-wagner-pmc-leader
