On February 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that tens of Russian and CIS nationals had been wounded in recent clashes in Syria, emphasizing that they were not Russian military service members.
Earlier this month, the foreign ministry said that, according to preliminary data, 5 Russian citizens had been killed “as a result of the armed conflict” in Syria.
The ministry’s comments come as multiple rumors are circulating about “hundreds” of Russian private military contractors killed in the US strikes on positions of Syrian government forces in the province of Deir Ezzor.
