Road to Smolensk

In Syria, the next Russian military-28-year-old sergeant of the landing and navigation battalion of the Marine Corps Andrei Tymoshenkov died. This was announced by Klops.ru with reference to relatives and friends of Morpeh.

Instead of the surname of the military edition, only initials brought. Later, TASS specified the surname with reference to the Ministry of Defense.

As Klops.ru reported, Tymoshenkov received fragmentation wounds in battle and died in a Syrian hospital. According to the Ministry of Defense, on June 15, in Muhafaz, Homs sergeant "prevented a breakthrough of a car stuffed with explosives to the place of issuing humanitarian aid to civilian population." The statement that he opened fire on the car and was seriously injured during the explosion of the car. Tymoshenkov died the next day.

The deceased was a native of the Smolensk region, and served in Kaliningrad. The experience of his service in the battalion was more than six years. Tymoshenkov came to the Middle East about three months ago and had to return home about a week later. He had a wife and a young daughter.

On Sunday, the remains of the deceased should be delivered to Smolensk, and on Monday the funeral will take place.

Tymoshenkov is posthumously presented to the award; To which one, the Ministry of Defense did not specify.

According to unconfirmed data from Klops.ru, in the incident in which Tymoshenkov died, four more Russian military were injured, two of which serve in the Kaliningrad region. According to the wife of one of the wounded, her spouse and another military, are preparing to transport to the Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. Burdenko (perhaps this is the other institution - the main military hospital named after Burdenko. - Ed.).

Tymoshenkov became the 12th Russian military, which is known that he died in Syria. The previous deceased was reported on Thursday . He was a 35-year-old artilleryman, junior sergeant of the 35th Army Mikhail Shiroko. In the first half of May, broadly packed was blown up by a mine and after treatment in Syria was taken to the hospital named after Burdenko, where he died on June 7th.