Christoph Reuter, Spiegel Online: The Truth About the Russian Deaths in Syria
Hundreds of Russian soldiers are alleged to have died in U.S. airstrikes at the beginning of February. Reporting by DER SPIEGEL shows that events were likely very different.
When it comes to cursing, the man doesn't hold back. "Son of a bitch" is the mildest cuss word that comes out of the militia member's mouth as he rants furiously about the inferno created by the hours-long American airstrike southeast of the city of Deir ez-Zor. Even as smoke continues to billow from burned out SUVs around them, he and five other men have come to remove the shattered body of one of their fellow fighters from the glowing embers of a bombed-out building.
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WNU Editor: Russian social media gets flooded by notices of burials/funerals when an incident like this happen. But aside from the flurry of earlier reports of families being notified that their loved ones were killed in Syria .... the numbers have not added up to the 100,200, etc. that were initially claimed. What we now have instead are claims that these bodies are in freezers and will only be released after the Russian Presidential election on March 18. Is this true? Sadly .... no one outside the Kremlin really knows.
