Russia Has Deployed Special-Ops Forces To Syria

FOX News/WSJ: Russia said to redeploy special-ops forces from Ukraine to Syria

Russia has sent a few dozen special-operations troops to Syria in recent weeks, Russian and Western officials say, redeploying the elite units from Ukraine as the Kremlin shifts its focus to supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Russia in late September launched a campaign of airstrikes in support of Mr. Assad’s government, and President Vladimir Putin has said Russian troops won't play a role in ground combat. But Russian military experts and officials say small numbers of special-forces units—whose missions are rarely acknowledged publicly—are also on the ground in Syria.

“The special forces were pulled out of Ukraine and sent to Syria,“ a Russian Ministry of Defense official said, adding that they had been serving in territories in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russia rebels. The official described them as “akin to a Delta Force,” the U.S. Army’s elite counterterrorism unit.

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WNU Editor: Russia specialists have been in Syria for years .... so this is not much of a revelation. But as the war in Syria "heats-up", it will not surprise me if Russian deployment of its combat forces to Syria will escalate in the coming weeks/months.