
The Russians, captured by the militants of the Islamic State, Roman Zabolotnye and Grigory Tsurkan, who were captured in Syria, are probably executed. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Viktor Vodolatsky, Interfax reports .
"The most sad thing is that the 99 percent of the rivet novel is no longer alive, like the second captive. Under the video, they slipped the paper with which they had to read the text, abandon the faith of the Orthodox, renounce Islam and join the IG. They were faithful to Orthodoxy and the Motherland, for which they were devoid of their lives of these bandits," Vodolatsky said. The deputy did not specify where he got this information.
On Thursday, the deputy of the City Duma of Rostov-on-Don Anatoly Kotlyarov already stated that the Cossack is a marshmallow is highly likely executed. “From a reliable source, I received information that he was executed in Syria. I would like to have this wrong, but so far the information is this,” Kotlyarov said.
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.
After the appearance of the dabage and Tsurkan, relatives and acquaintances identified. It turned out that both prisoners served in the private military company Wagner . According to one of the acquaintances of the damp, the Cossack told him that Wagner was promised to pay 300 thousand rubles a month. Prior to a trip to Syria, Zabolotnya and Tsurkan participated in the war in the Donbass on the side of the separatists.