We identified the identities of 11 Belorussians of PMC Wagner who fought in Syria

At a press briefing on July 26, the Ukrainian Security Service announced that it had identified and identified the identities of 206 mercenaries of the Russian PMC Wagner who had taken part in the military operations in Syria in February of this year. It is alleged that among them – 11 Belarusians. This is reported by the press service of the SBU.

Igor Guskov has developed the identity of Sergei Sazanov of Gomel region – he said that he was a former inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus who was fired in 2015 for narcotics use. About Sergei Sazanov, he himself left the bodies, after which he was deprived of his driver's license – again, as he said, because of the use of Corvalol a few days before the car trip). screenshots of ossetey. The SBU also referred to the results of journalistic investigations

Reminder, February 7 , the forces of the international coalition led by the United States, have mbaded airstrikes on pro-government forces in the region of Deir ez Zor in Syria. The US military then claimed that this measure was a response to the badault of supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad on the headquarters of the "Syrian Democratic Forces", backed by Washington.

Later, the media reported that Russian mercenaries were attacking the position of the "Syrian Democratic Forces". of the Wagner PMC. Initially, unofficially reported on hundreds of deaths, later the figure was clarified – up to 10-15 people died. In addition, information has shown that during the clash in the Deir-ez-Zor region, Belarussians from PMC Wagner were injured. This information has been refuted both in the Wagner PMC and in the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Wagner's PCM is an unofficial military organization that has no legal status, but has an office in Moscow. According to different media, the number of mercenaries in the PMC varies from 1,500 to 2,500 people, among them the Belarussians in particular. In Belarus, mercenarism is prohibited, for which a criminal penalty under art. 133 of the Criminal Code of Belarus – imprisonment from three to seven years with confiscation of property or without confiscation.