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Grigory Tsurkan, who was captured in Syria by the militants of the Islamic State, served in the private military company Wagner. This was stated by his brother Roman, reports Business FM.

“I have not talked with him since 2015 for a number of disagreements, but it was personal. I found out only in July about it, and my parents didn’t tell me either. They discouraged him as far as I later understood. He left there in May,” said Roman Tsurkan. “You see, all the contracts are apparently not official. It’s not advertised. Now they say it. They are simply executed, if it’s not executed if it isn’t executed if it’s not executed if it’s not an execution. To launch, you have two children. "

According to Roman Tsurkan, his brother is a former military soldier of the Airborne Forces. This is not the first trip of Grigory Tsurkan to Syria. “He was either in 2012 or in 2013,” the captive brother noted. “There was almost a whole battalion there. They covered Assad himself (Bashar al -Assad, the Syrian dictator. - Ed.), Holded nearby.”

"Radio Liberty" - also with reference to the prisoner’s brother - reports that Tsurkanu fought in eastern Ukraine. There he visited twice, both times in 2014. In Syria before that, a relative added, the militant traveled as part of the "Slavic Corps" - the predecessor of the PMC Wagner.

Meanwhile, the captive parents told the radio stations that they called them from the FSB and demanded that they “not make noise”, assuring that their son would be released. “We will wait, if they do not free - we will call you, journalists,” Tsurkan's parents promised.

About another prince - Roman Zabolnotnoy - in the "all -like army of Donskoy" Interfax said that he "was an active and exemplary Cossack" and "worked as a rotational method for Russia." Recently, the connection with him has disappeared, added in the "army", and no one knew about the intention of dabbled to Syria.

Meanwhile, RBC with reference to the name of the acquaintance, which was not named by the name of the acquaintance, confirms that the saphenye fought as part of the Wagner PMC. The militant, according to the interlocutor of the publication, arrived on the base of the group, located on the Kuban farm of Molkino. The acquaintance of the dabbled said that Wagner was promised to pay 300 thousand rubles a month.

The interlocutor of the newspaper also said that by profession a damp cook. Previously, he served on a contract in the army, and later went to fight for Ukraine - first as a Wagner action movie, and then as part of a certain Cossack formation.

Meanwhile, the investment group Conflict Intelligence Team found that in April of this year, Zapolnoye participated in the blocking of the Rostov headquarters Alexei Navalny.

Earlier on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin’s spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov said that if Russian citizenship of two men captured by IG will confirm that care will be shown, Interfax reports . “As for the two, possibly citizens of Russia, military personnel, I propose to focus primarily on the corresponding statement through the Ministry of Defense,” Peskov said. “Of course, in Moscow they are concerned about the fate of these citizens if they are citizens of the Russian Federation.”

At the same time, the spokesman did not comment on the messages about identifying the prisoners. “We saw messages in the media, but they can hardly be perceived as official information. Some more deserving confirmation will be represented,” Peskov noted. “Of course, information on all possible sources will be verified for confirmation that these people are citizens of our country.”

On September 28, IG reported the capture of two Russians. It was claimed that they were captured in a battle, which took place on the 22nd day in the village of Esh-Shul in the west of Muhafazi Deir ez-Zor. Another Russian, the Islamists said, was killed in this battle.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that neither prisoners nor killed among Russians fighting in Syria recently. However, the agency led about the personnel of the military, and not about the mercenaries.

On Tuesday, the official news agency IG AMAQ published a video with prisoners . They are removed in similar robes, chained into handcuffs and with traces of beatings. One Russian is represented by Zabolnoye, a native of the village of Dawn of the Aksaysky District of the Rostov Region. According to him, Tsurkan born in 1978 from the Domodedovo district of the Moscow Region was captured with him. Tsurkan himself is silent in the published fragment. He is beaten much stronger than a dion.

On the same day, the Ul Murid, the Black Blogger, published screenshots of two publications. The first, in the VK group "Battle Brotherhood - Domodedovo", was dated February 16, 2015, before Russia's open intervention in the Syrian war. In it, Tsurkan is mentioned as a participant in the hostilities "in Syria and Yugoslavia." In the second publication, dated June last year, a Cossack is mentioned by a Cossack of the subjunum Zabolotny, who participated in the Polish Humanitarian Mission to the Donbass.