Anadolu: Four Russian generals were killed in the north of Syria

In the north of Syria, in the area of ​​Mount Turkmandagi near the Turkish border, four Russian generals were killed. This was reported by the Turkish state news agency Anadolu with reference to sources in the Syrian opposition. There is no such information on the website of the Syrian Supervisory Board of Human Rights, which quickly publishes news from the Syrian opposition.

The incident, according to Anadolu, occurred in the evening of February 2 during a meeting of high -ranking military Russian army and troops of the Syrian dictator Bashar al -Assad. The forces of the opposition attacked the meeting participants, killing 15 military; Among them, in addition to four Russian generals, four Assad Army Generals were also.

The agency does not give the names of the murdered Russian generals, reporting only that one was Yuri and he had the title of Lieutenant General, and the other three were the rank of major general. It is noted that Yuri coordinated attacks on Turkmandagi.

Of the four killed generals, Assad Anadolu calls the names of three: Amed Munzur, Ali Jabir and Ali Umran.

On Wednesday evening, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a Russian military adviser died in Syria . The name, title and position of the deceased were not specified; It was reported that he "performed the tasks of providing assistance to the Syrian army in the development of new weapons, supplied as part of the current interstate contracts of military-technical cooperation."

It was claimed that on February 1, the military was mortally wounded when the Islamic State fired a garrison from the mortars, where one of the formations of the Syrian army is deployed. Whether the Russian died from this injury on the same day or later, was also not explained.

The deceased was posthumously presented to a certain state award.

The total number of Russian military who died since the open intervention of Moscow in the Syrian war has not disclosed official sources.