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THE WEST’S GREAT WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
Syria, the Ukraine, and other battlefields are just proxy conflicts. The object is the defeat and destruction of Russia as an independent world power.
UPDATE March 27: We have found the name and image of this Russian hero: Sergei Chupov, 51.
A view shows the grave of Russian serviceman Sergei Chupov at a cemetery in the Balashikha district of the Moscow region, Russia, ‘The officer had been target spotting in the Palmyra area for a week, identifying crucial ISIS targets and passing exact coordinates for strikes with Russian planes. [March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Maria Tsvetkova]
- Russian soldier died a ‘hero’ after directing airstrikes to his own location
- Found himself surrounded by ISIS fighters on one-man mission at Palmyra
- Decided to direct aircraft to bomb his own location, killing the ISIS militants
- Comes as Syrian forces march into the ISIS-held strategical city of Palmyra
A Russian soldier has died a ‘hero’ after wiping out a band of ISIS fighters by calling in airstrikes on himself.
The special forces officer was on a one-man mission to track down ISIS militants in the area around Palmyra, when he found himself surrounded by enemy fighters.
Caught in a hopeless situation, he directed Russian aircraft to bomb his location, killing himself and the ISIS fighters that surrounded him.
The special forces officer was on a one-man mission to track down ISIS militants in the area around Palmyra, when he found himself surrounded by enemy fighters. ‘An officer of Russian special operations forces was killed near Palmyra while carrying out a special task to direct Russian airstrikes at Islamic State group targets,’ said a spokesperson for the Russian military. ‘The officer died as a hero, he drew fire onto himself after being located and surrounded by terrorists.’
The Russian campaign began on September 30, but few details of the soldiers on the ground have emerged since.
ISIS media claimed last week that five Russian special forces officers had been killed near Palmyra, sharing images and videos of a body. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied at the time that Russian officers were participating in the advance on Palmyra, which has been under ISIS control since May 2015.
ISIS have been forced into a retreat across Iraq and Syria having lost some major sections of territory
He instead claimed ‘the advance is carried out by contingents of the Syrian army’, with support from Russian warplanes and allied militia on the ground.
Iraqi troops have launched a major offensive to recapture the strategically important town of Mosul, after Syrian forces successfully marched into Palmyra following a desert offensive
Iraqi forces have won back much of the territory seized by the terror group during their 2014 blitzkrieg. Moscow’s defence ministry said Russian aircraft carried out 146 strikes on ‘terrorist targets’ in the Palmyra area between Wednesday and last Sunday.
It comes the day after Syrian troops entered Palmyra, with photographs emerging of Bashar al-Assad’s forces within the ancient city itself.
Meanwhile, the ISIS second-in-command Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli has been killed in bombing raids in Syria.
The ISIS finance minister had a $7million bounty on his head, and US defence officials have claimed his death will make it more difficult for ISIS to operate and pay its fighters.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said US forces are ‘systematically eliminating ISIL’s cabinet. We killed several key ISIL terrorists this week’.
Members of the Syrian Amry celebrated their victory over ISIS in the city of Palmyra earlier today.
Syrian troops today recaptured a mansion belonging to a member of the Qatari royal family in Palmyra.
He said: ‘They will be replaced but we will continue to go after their leadership.’
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