Continued: Victim in Syria, the assistant Deputy was a volunteer DNR
Sergey Morozov, who worked as an assistant to the Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev (LDPR) and went to fight in Syria, died there March 9, reports Reuters Thursday, November 3. According to the Agency, he came under artillery fire near the town of Palmyra, was wounded and died on the way to the hospital.
Degtyarev confirmed to Reuters that the 38-year-old frost was his friend, and said that he was killed during the battle for Palmyra, which was under the control of insurgents.
The Agency claims that the beginning of this year was unsuccessful for the Department, consisting of hundreds of Russian soldiers and fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. To Morozov, as noted, on February 3 in a shootout with rebels near Aleppo was killed by his contemporary Maxim Kolganov.
Reuters indicates that the families of the victims handed over the medals that they were awarded posthumously. Neither Kolganov or frost were not civil servants, in Syria they fought as mercenaries.
Officially, Russia in the Arab Republic conducts an air campaign. To protect the air base Hamim, where the group of Air and space forces of the Russian Federation, involved divisions of the marine corps, air defense and special forces, which was involved in the liberation of Palmyra. That the Russian military is regularly involved in ground operations, said. Recognized the loss of the Russian armed forces in Syria are 20 people, Kolganova or Morozov among them.