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Ukraine sent special forces to Syria to attack Russians there, revealing a new front to the war: report
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According to the outlet, the video, dated March 2024, shows Ukrainian special forces targeting Russian checkpoints, strongholds, foot patrols, and convoys of military equipment in southwest Syria.
An unnamed Ukrainian intelligence source told the outlet that the troops had backed Syrian rebels in carrying out multiple strikes on Russian military facilities since the start of the year.
Russia has been involved in Syria’s civil war since 2015, when it launched a military intervention after the country’s president requested support against opposition and the Islamic State.
By the end of April 2018, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Russian aerial bombings had directly killed more than 7,700 civilians, a quarter of them children, as well as 4,749 opposition fighters and 4,893 members of ISIS.
According to Alexander Libman, a professor of Russian and East European Politics at the Free University of Berlin, their presence in Syria would be “deeply” surprising as Ukraine faces “major” manpower issues on the battlefield back home.
Ukrainian special forces were reportedly seen interrogating captured Wagner mercenaries in Sudan in an undated video shared by the Kyiv Post in February.
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