WASHINGTON -- US forces in Syria narrowly averted another clash with Russian mercenaries like one last month that left up to 200 members of the "Wagner Group" dead, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday (March 27), according to AFP.
"Russian elements" moved across a deconfliction line into an area on the eastern side of the Euphrates river, Mattis told reporters.
The Russians withdrew after the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford, contacted his Russian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Mattis said.
From Russia's meddling in Ukraine and eventual illegal annexation of Crimea -- using face covered mercenary "volunteers" to create instability -- to supporting the continuing war crimes of the Syrian regime, the Kremlin has employed this group of mercenaries to do Putin's dirty work in numerous conflict zones.
Questions about the role of the so-called "Wagner Group" in the Syrian conflict intensified in the aftermath of a battle February 7-8, when US troops and their allies came under attack by hundreds of fighters loyal to the Syrian regime near Deir Ezzor.
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Good God, what baloney! Who makes this stuff up?
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There is no detailed information about the Russian army
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The shadow army enjoys Most Favored Nation Treatment right at the tail end of an Ostrich that could get its head out of the sand.
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