Reuters: Fighters of the Russian PMC, who help Assad in Syria, use the military base of the Ministry of Defense

Fighters of PMCs, who provide military support for the regime of Bashar al -Assad in Syria, use the base of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Krasnodar Territory. It is reported by Reuters.

According to the agency, at least three times in the last month, groups of men who returned from Syria in civilian clothing organizedly went to the base of the Russian Ministry of Defense near the Molkino farm near Krasnodar.

Thus, the agency correspondents saw how Carter from Damascus landed at the Rostov-on-Don airport at the Rostov-on-Don airport. The aircraft belonged to the Cham Wings, which, according to information from the agency’s sources, transferred Fighters of PMCs from Russia to Syria. Soon, several groups of men left the terminal through a separate exit, which is usually closed, and were located in three buses parked at the place for service transport. They took them to that part of the airport, which is usually used only by employees. The tractor drove luggage carts filled with large bags to buses; Men in civilianity went out, loaded bags and returned to buses again.

Three buses drove out of the airport with a column and went south. Shortly before midnight, all three turned off the highway to the Molkino farm near Krasnodar, 350 kilometers south of Rostov Airport. In Molkino, each bus slowed down for one or two minutes at the checkpoint, on which at least two military were on duty before driving on. After 15-20 minutes, the buses drove from the base empty.

Buses, as Reuters saw a correspondent, carried men from Rostov Airport to the base in Molkino also on March 25 and April 6.

On the farm of Molkino, the Krasnodar Territory is the 10th separate special forces team of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The team’s duty officer told the agency that no one had arrived on the territory of the base. Bus owners confirmed Reuters that they were leased, but did not disclose to whom exactly.

On February 14, Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that civil Russians who are in Syria "do not belong to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation." Answering the question why civilians fighting in Syria go to the military base of the Ministry of Defense, Peskov said that he did not have such information and suggested asking the Ministry of Defense. The Ministry of Defense and the Russian Foreign Ministry did not respond to the needs of the agency.

Several relatives, friends and recruiters of Vagner PMCs told Reuters that the training camp in Molkino was used by mercenaries from the time they fought in the east of Ukraine on the side of pro -Russian separatists.

The fact that the Russians arriving from Syria are arriving at the Ministry of Defense base “is a rare certificate of the secret part of the Russian Operation in support of the Syrian President Bashar al -Assad, which officially comes down to air strikes, the training of Syrian troops and a small number of special forces,” the agency emphasizes.