Two Russian military
advisers, who controlled fire of the Syrian battery, died at the scene.
MOSCOW, May 27.
/TASS/. Four Russian servicemen were killed by the militants’ fire in Syria,
the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
"Two Russian
military advisers, who controlled fire of the Syrian battery, died at the
scene. Five other Russian military were wounded and immediately taken to a
Russian military hospital. The military doctors had been fighting for the life
of two wounded servicemen, but they did not manage to save them," the
ministry said.
According to the
ministry, the fighting occurred in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in the dark time
when several mobile terrorist groups attacked an artillery battery of the
Syrian government forces.
The Syrian troops
together with the Russian military from the military advisers’ group entered
the battle. "During the fighting, which lasted for nearly an hour, the
military destroyed 43 terrorists and six all-terrain vehicles with
large-caliber armaments installed on them," the ministry said.
The Russian military
have been granted state decorations.
