The head of the Duma Committee on physical culture Mikhail Degtyarev has confirmed the death of its assistant Sergey Morozov in Syria. It is reported RIA Novosti on Thursday, 3 November.
According to the Deputy, Morozov was his friend and worked as his assistant on a voluntary basis, was put forward in deputies of the Samara provincial Duma and for many years was the liberal democratic party.
Military Morozov was not exactly, said Degtyarev. “How he got there [to Syria] came, I do not know”, — he said. According to some reports, frost was killed in battle with terrorists at Palmyra, he added.
“A few years with him there was no connection. I know that he went a volunteer in the Donbass, was on the side of the militias of the Donetsk national Republic”, — said the Deputy. He noted that frost was a Cossack, “a simple guy, a family man”.
Earlier Thursday, Reuters reported that 38-year-old frost was killed in Syria on March 9. According to the Agency, he came under artillery fire near the town of Palmyra, was wounded and died on the way to the hospital.