ACT OF WAR ! A Russian military adviser killed in Syria has been recommended for a state decoration, the Russian Defense Ministry reported Wednesday. “The Russian military adviser in Syria was fulfilling tasks to render assistance to the Syrian army in mastering new armaments supplied within the framework of current interstate military-technical cooperation contracts,” the ministry said. On February 1, a military garrison where a Syrian army formation is deployed was hit from mortars fire . The officer was fatally wounded. He was recommended for the state decoration posthumously. Russia’s Aerospace Force started delivering pinpoint strikes in Syria at facilities of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organizations, which are banned in Russia, on September 30, 2015, on a request from Syrian President Bashar Assad. Russia’s aircraft have made thousands of sorties since the start of the operation in Syria.
****** Just yesterday our sources in the Syrian army have said that in recent weeks, frequent uncharacteristically “accurate” rocket fire on our command posts of the Syrian government army, as we were leading the offensive in the north of the country. And the attacks began immediately upon arrival at the headquarters and command posts of senior Syrian military. The shelling from these attacks, according to our sources were of certain professional army artillery ! This was not random ! Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria officially stated – this is the work of the Turkish Junta Armed Forces. Also, we were told that during one of the attacks, a Russian military personnel was killed . Without specifying his position and rank and date of death.
**** On Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence of Russia has officially confirmed the death of our advisor: “Russian military advisors in Syria has the task of assisting the Syrian army in the development of new weapons supplied under contracts existing interstate military-technical cooperation.”
In the north, the Syrian army is practically decided the most important task – cut the grouping of Islamists from the border with Turkey. Force or counter-offensive to stop it was impossible, the only solution suggested itself – to prevent the management of complex operations going in difficult terrain. In the mountains with a height difference up to a kilometer, with a rare road network.
About the circumstances of the death of an officer Ministry of Defence reported scant details:
“February as a result of a mortar attack on our military garrison, which deployed one of the Syrian compounds of the army officer was fatally wounded.” According to information, a military adviser then died from multiple shrapnel wounds from artillery positions near the town of Salma, which was liberated by the Syrian army in the middle of January. This city – the last major town near the Syrian-Turkish border in the province of Latakia. At the moment it is almost exempt from Islamist militants. They evacuated their camps on the territory to Turkey or moved along the border to the east.
According to the Ministry of Defence, who died Advisor presented posthumously to the state award.
