HOMS, Syria
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MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. About 2.5 thousand people from Russia are fighting on the side of terrorists in Syria, reported today by the acting Secretary General of the Organization of the collective security Treaty Valery Semerikov.
“From Russia about two – two and a half thousand people. I’m taking and the Caucasus,” he said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in Syria on the side of the militants fighting about 4 thousand immigrants from Russia. In June last year who was at that time the post of Secretary General of the CSTO Nikolay Bordyuzha said that in this country are fighting about 10 thousand natives of the countries of the CSTO.
As reported in late February, the General staff of the armed forces in an airstrike in the village of Rasmi al-ays in the South-West of Aleppo, were eliminated 19 warlords from the North Caucasus and Central Asia.