The American general revealed the details of the battle with the "Wagner"
On the night of February 7-8, 2018, a tragic event took place in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, which is still estimated differently by the parties involved. According to reports, a large group of fighters, among whom were Russian military experts known as PMC Wagner, tried to take control of oil and gas fields, as well as the Damascus nationalized Conoco refinery, which were captured by Kurds with US support.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, pro-Assad forces, among which there were several Russian citizens, on their own initiative and without coordination with the Russian command of the expeditionary force launched an attack on the Kurds. The US military, in turn, helped the allies of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" fight off "an unprovoked attack." The U.S. military used F-15E fighters, MQ-9 drones, B-52 strategic bombers, AC-130 heavy attack aircraft and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. An official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated that the subsequent mass news on the Internet about hundreds of dead mercenaries of the Wagner PMC were misinformation, and possibly 5 citizens of the Russian Federation died from an American air strike. It should be noted that in the future on social networks information appeared about the dead Russian mercenaries near Hisham in Syria, significantly exceeding the figure indicated by the Foreign Ministry.
The extremely unpopular topic of military rout was managed to be washed away for a while, but the American side raised it when it considered it profitable for itself. CIA Director Mike Pompeo stated that the U.S. military destroyed several hundred Russian military personnel in Syria earlier this year, clearly bearing in mind the events that occurred on the night of February 7-8, 2018 near Hisham in the province of Gyor-ez-Zor. The point in the insinuations about whether the group of mercenaries was defeated or not was put by the American President Donald Trump, who on April 19 said that in Syria, shortly before, there was a very fierce battle between the Russian and American military, in which many people died.
Now the US military is finally clearing up the picture of what happened on that terrible February night in the Syrian desert. US Army Brigadier General John Braga in an interview with the media said that the forces of the international coalition closely monitored the movement of troops and equipment the enemy. Braga got in touch with a certain representative of Russian mercenaries, who assured that there were no Russian military in the Hisham area. But the "unidentified" fighters continued their attack on the oil fields, starting artillery and tank shelling, as well as using small arms. According to the American general, he repeatedly contacted representatives of the Russian military with a request to stop the offensive, but this had no effect. And then the US aviation within 3 hours began to systematically attack the attacking group.
It is regrettable, but the American side confirms the information about 200-300 dead Russian mercenaries of PMC Wagner.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, pro-Assad forces, among which there were several Russian citizens, on their own initiative and without coordination with the Russian command of the expeditionary force launched an attack on the Kurds. The US military, in turn, helped the allies of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" fight off "an unprovoked attack." The U.S. military used F-15E fighters, MQ-9 drones, B-52 strategic bombers, AC-130 heavy attack aircraft and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. An official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated that the subsequent mass news on the Internet about hundreds of dead mercenaries of the Wagner PMC were misinformation, and possibly 5 citizens of the Russian Federation died from an American air strike. It should be noted that in the future on social networks information appeared about the dead Russian mercenaries near Hisham in Syria, significantly exceeding the figure indicated by the Foreign Ministry.
The extremely unpopular topic of military rout was managed to be washed away for a while, but the American side raised it when it considered it profitable for itself. CIA Director Mike Pompeo stated that the U.S. military destroyed several hundred Russian military personnel in Syria earlier this year, clearly bearing in mind the events that occurred on the night of February 7-8, 2018 near Hisham in the province of Gyor-ez-Zor. The point in the insinuations about whether the group of mercenaries was defeated or not was put by the American President Donald Trump, who on April 19 said that in Syria, shortly before, there was a very fierce battle between the Russian and American military, in which many people died.
Now the US military is finally clearing up the picture of what happened on that terrible February night in the Syrian desert. US Army Brigadier General John Braga in an interview with the media said that the forces of the international coalition closely monitored the movement of troops and equipment the enemy. Braga got in touch with a certain representative of Russian mercenaries, who assured that there were no Russian military in the Hisham area. But the "unidentified" fighters continued their attack on the oil fields, starting artillery and tank shelling, as well as using small arms. According to the American general, he repeatedly contacted representatives of the Russian military with a request to stop the offensive, but this had no effect. And then the US aviation within 3 hours began to systematically attack the attacking group.
It is regrettable, but the American side confirms the information about 200-300 dead Russian mercenaries of PMC Wagner.
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