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Russia deploys Ukraine-based militants to Syria — Tymchuk
Military analyst and MP Dmytro Tymchuk says Russia's 'Don' battalion, currently stationed in Ukraine's war-torn Donbas region, has been ordered to dispatch 190 of it's militant footsoldiers to Syria. According to Tymchuk, nearly 200 Russian mercenaries, who were fighting alongside with militants in the...
2 Canadians, 1 Norwegian abducted by gunmen in Philippines – military
Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager, and a Filipino woman have been abducted from a popular resort by gunmen in the southern Philippines, the military have confirmed. According to Philippines army Captain Alberto Caber, the four were kidnapped at a gunpoint during a raid on the Oceanview resort on Samal Island,...
Moscow sends troops to Syria without consent: media
Some Russian military contractors are not willing to be deployed to another hotspot, this time in the Middle East, from Novorossiyck military port, according to the Russian online newspaper gazeta.ru. "We don’t want to go to Syria, we don’t want to die there,” said one of the lieutenants from a military...