
In the city of Ozersk, the Chelyabinsk region on March 2, 23-year-old Russian military Ivan Poyshkin, who died in Syria, was buried on March 2. It is reported by Znak.com.
According to the publication, Payshkin was shot dead by sniper. The date of death indicated on the monument is February 12.
Payshkin, reports Znak.com, in the early 2010s he served in military service in Chechnya, then returned home. He went to Syria to make money for a wedding. He had awards "For service in the North Caucasus", "For Courage", "For Courage".
Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov told TASS that they did not have information about the death of the military in the Kremlin, and advised reporters to seek comments in the Ministry of Defense.
Meanwhile, RBC reports that Varishkin was an action movie of the private military company Wagner. Before sending to the Middle East, he was prepared in the military unit No. 51532 on the Molkino farm in the line of the Kuban city of Goryachy Key. This is the base of the 10th separate team of GRU special forces, also used by the Wagner PMC.
In Syria, the newspaper reports, Payshkin was instructed by a soldier of the dictator Bashar al -Assad, who serve in the special forces "Hunters for IG". The base was located at the Shayrat military airfield 35 kilometers southeast of Homs. They killed a militant during an intelligence operation in the area of the Ash Shaer gas field.
The publication of RBC also allows us to conclude that at the end of military service in Chechnya, Poyshkin served there for almost two years under the contract. He went to the base in Molkino on January 10.
The publication also reports with reference to the Free News agency that the formation of "IG hunters" is fully funded and trained in Russian special services.
At the end of February, the Ministry of Defense reported the death of four Russian soldiers in Syria. On Monday, it became known that the military died on February 16 as a result of an attack on a motorcade heading towards the city of Homs. Four kilometers from Tijas, the Tiger car was blown up using a powerful radio -controlled landmine, laid down by militants near the road, and fire was opened along the column itself.
Four out of six people in armored vehicles died: their names in the Ministry of Defense were not disclosed, but it is known that Senior Sergeant Vadim Magamurov and Marine Corchods Pavel Kozachenko received mortal injuries. They were buried on February 19 in Yekaterinburg and Penza, respectively.
The head of the military training department of the headquarters of the Western Military District, who was in the machine, Major General Peter Milyukhin was seriously injured. He lost both legs and eyes. In the field, doctors managed to stop bleeding. The general was taken to the Moscow hospital named after Burdenko. Prior to this, the Ministry of Defense officially recognized the death of 27 troops in Syria.