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On October 1, 2015, in Syria, a sergeant-contract from Kabardino-Balkaria, Eduard Sokurov, died. This became known from the message published on Friday on the official website of the administration of the capital of the Republic of Nalchik on the delivery of posthumous award to his relatives. The message was later deleted, but its copy remained in the Yandex cache

Sokurov was posthumously awarded the medal "For Courage". "Fulfilling his constitutional duty, Edward died in Syria. In Syria, Edward guarded Russian pilots, helped deliver humanitarian goods," the report said.

The head of the city Arsen Alakaev presented the award to Sokurov’s sister. The sergeant’s relatives were also transferred to the Syrian Order of the IV degree and saber, a gift from the Minister of Defense of Syria.

Sokurov was called up to the Armed Forces in June 2010, at the end of the service life in the same year, he was dismissed. In 2015, he was called up for a contract in military unit No. 31681 of the city of Cool. There Sokurov served as a senior intelligence officer of the special forces group, follows from the text of the message.

Sokurov - 24th Russian military, whose death in Syria is officially confirmed. On December 7, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian military adviser Ruslan Galitsky died from severe wounds received as a result of the shelling of one of the residential quarters in the western part of Aleppo. According to the military department, the colonel died in the hospital. The dates of his injuries and death were not given in the message.