райнхард написа: ↑10 Фев 2018, 21:48
Dinain написа: ↑10 Фев 2018, 21:42
Neil Hauer
Russian reporter in Syria Roman Saponkov says he believes Russia PMC Wagner lost "20-25 fighters" in yesterday's US airstrikes on regime forces in NE Syria. Raises question of what these forces were doing there/thinking in the first place.
Добре си подчертал "вярва". И вече разбрахме, че това не са Вагнеровци, а спонсорираните и въоръжавани от Русия ISIS Hunters. Точно толкова се писа, че са загинали от тези ловци.
Ще чакаме потвърждение от погребенията във вконтакте.ру и Фейсбук.
Inside the U.S. coalition attack on Syrian forces in Deir Ez Zor
Gregory Waters
Within 24 hours, 22 martyrs “of the American aggression in Deir Ez Zor” had been named and at least 30 bodies had been brought back to the hospital in Suqaylabiyah.8. Of these men, only two were Deir-ez-Zor locals of the Bagarra tribe: Laith and Ashraf al-Bashir, sons of the influential Sheikh Nawaf al-Bashir.9. Of the remaining 20 fighters, seven were from the coastal governorate of Tartous, five from the coastal governorate of Latakia, and eight from Hama.10. Two of the men from Tartous were high ranking officers: Brigadier General Yusuf Haider and Lieutenant Colonel Yasser Essa. Lieutenant Colonel Essa and eight other fighters were identified as members of the enigmatic “ISIS Hunters,” a small Russian-equipped, well-trained, and well-armed militia historically operating in Syria’s east.11. Brigadier General Haider was identified by a relative as a Russian linguist.12.
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Furthermore, in June 2017 the St. Petersburg-based Fontanka organisation broke the news that the new gas and oil company Euro Polis and the state-owned General Petroleum Corporation had signed contracts granting them the rights to 25% of any oil and gas production at facilities captured by “its contractors” from ISIS.18. This was confirmed by the Associated Press in December 2017.19. The Fontanka report further identified “ISIS Hunters” as holding “contractual obligations” to Euro Polis for securing those oil and gas fields. Fontanka also published a video filmed by Russian fighters near Palmyra, Homs, identical to an earlier video published by the official ISIS Hunters Twitter page.20.
Shortly after the skirmish, a mid-level Syrian fighter posted his account of what happened on Facebook: “At around 10:45pm last night, the Syrian Arab Army and its friends began the battle for the liberation of the Conoco gas fields controlled by the Kurdish militias.”21. Two sources close to another Russian private military contractor operating in Syria, Wagner PMC, further claimed there were Russian casualties in the battle.22.23. The high concentration of ISIS Hunters among the attacking forces, the presence of a Russian linguist, and the intention of seizing the largest gas fields in Deir-ez-Zor implies that this attack was instigated either by Wagner PMC or by Russian leaders within the ISIS Hunters, potentially at the behest of General Petroleum Corporation.
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With this evidence in mind it is clear that the Syrian and Russian governments’ accounts of this event are false. Pro-government forces intentionally pushed for the SDF-held Conoco gas fields and plant, consisting of both tribal militias and ISIS Hunters, incurring at minimum dozens of deaths. The heavy presence of ISIS Hunters and death of Brigadier General Haider further create reasonable suspicion that Russian PMCs were involved in this attack and may have suffered casualties as well. If this is true, it brings into question the Russian Defense Ministry’s relationship with these unofficial Russian combat units. It is possible that the ISIS Hunters serve as a proxy force for the Russian military when needed; in this case allowing the Russians to be on the ground probing SDF lines while retaining plausible deniability of any involvement. Oil and gas remains Syria’s most lucrative natural resource, and Russian state-owned companies are well aware of this fact.
https://international-review.org/inside ... ir-ez-zor/
Силно е подозрението, че са участвали "ловци на ИД", както и "Вагнер" - докато вторите е всеизвестно, че са руснаци, за първите е силно подозрението, че се командват от руснаци. В статията е обяснено защо медийното им присъствие е много различно от други про-асадски групировки (най-малко акаунтите им в социалните мрежи се списват от не-сирийци - нямат публикации на арабски, вместо това всички са на правилен английски, самото им име е на английски(!) и т.н.). Силно е подозрението и, че нито правителството в Дамаск, нито това в Кремъл е знаело за атаката, която може да е своеволие, продиктувано от частни бизнес интереси - описани са и едни договори, сключени с "ловците на ИД" преди няколко месеца... всичко е в статията.
