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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian fighters ready to join next phase of Ukraine war
2022-04-19
For a given value of ready that means not any time soon. But all that training keeps otherwise unemployed fighters busy and out of trouble, and goodness knows most of them can use more training. Besides, it sounds totally scary to threaten their imminent arrival in the Ukraine...
[Rudaw] During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating bandidos krazed killers in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops "will lead to great successes in the future."

Now members of Brig. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan’s division are among hundreds of Russian-trained Syrian fighters who have reportedly signed up to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, including Syrian soldiers, former rebels and experienced fighters who fought for years against the Islamic State
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Anyone taking bets these become used as the NKVD units were used by Stalin in Ukraine in WW2?
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-04-19 01:51  

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