Bloomberg: As a result of the impact of coalition forces in Syria, more than 200 Russian mercenaries were killed

As a result of the aircraft manufacture of coalition forces, led by the United States in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, more than 200 Russian mercenaries who attacked Kurdish positions were killed, Bloomberg reports with reference to an unnamed American official and three Russians familiar with the situation.

On February 7, the column of supporters of Bashar al -Assad, among whom were Russian mercenaries allegedly from the Wagner PMC, attacked the headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, where the American military advisers were located. The coalition forces were inflicted on the attackers of the airier, as a result of which up to 300 people were killed according to various estimates.

Earlier, the ataman of the village of Svyato-Nikolskaya Oleg Surnin told the sign “Sign” that the initially information was about 30 dead, but then data on 217 were received.

On the eve of social networks and regional media, the first messages appeared from close Russian mercenaries who died under the airstrike of the coalition led by the United States in the Syrian province of Deir Ez-Zor on February 7.

CONFLICT INTELGENCE Team researcher Kirill Mikhailov told The Insider that the Americans could not know that Russian mercenaries could be among the attackers. “I think that the coalition forces contacted the Russian side along the line of preventing incidents, asked if there were Russian military, the Ministry of Defense honestly answered that they were not there. The fact that there are mercenaries of the PMC Wagner, they might not know, ”said Mikhailov.