Russian soldiers surrounded in Syria, Kremlin blames U.S.
As a result of an offensive in Syria, three soldiers of the Russian Special Operations Forces were wounded. It happened in the province of Idlib during an attack by the rebels of the Jebhat al-Nusra group, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
According to the report, Russian military police were surrounded, and commandos who came to their aid were injured.
“This offensive was initiated by U.S. intelligence services to stop the advance of government troops east of Deir ez-Zor,” said Colonel-General Sergey Rudskoy, Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff.
According to him, in just 24 hours, 850 terrorists were killed, and 11 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 46 pickup trucks, 5 mortars, 20 trucks and 38 weapons depots were destroyed by aircraft and artillery.