Did The Kremlin Hide The Deaths Of More Than 100 Russian Mercenaries In Syria Until Presdient Putin Was Reelected?

Syrian and Russian soldiers at a checkpoint near Wafideen camp in Damascus, March 2, 2018. Omar Sanadiki/Reuters

Business Insider/Reuters: How Russia reportedly hid the deaths of more than 100 mercenaries in Syria until after Putin was reelected

YELENOVSKOYE, Russia (Reuters) — The last contact Grigoriy Gancherov and his wife had with their son, a Russian private military contractor fighting in Syria, was on Feb. 4 last year.

The father subsequently learned from a friend and fellow fighter of Sergei's that the 25-year-old had died several days later in a major battle against US-led forces in the Deir al-Zor region.

It was not until mid-April that he received formal notification of his son's death and the body was returned, accompanied by a death certificate stating he died on March 7 on the other side of Syria.

Gancherov's account is one of half a dozen instances Reuters has identified where the Kremlin-linked private military organization that recruited the fighters returned bodies more than seven weeks after the battle and with official documents bearing details that people who knew them say were incorrect.

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WNU editor: The Kremlin is hiding a lot of things .... including the deaths of mercenaries in Syria and elsewhere. Speaking of Russian casualties in Syria, another Russian soldier was reported kill .... Russian Serviceman Killed in Syria in Line of Duty - Authorities (Sputnik).