‘We’re Here to the End’: Russian Servicemen in Syria Speak to French TV
SputnikNews.com
23.10.2015
The off-duty life of Russian servicemen in Syria seems to be of such interest to journalists that they are resorting to all kinds of tricks in order to get a story; one French TV crew, for example, left their camera running while casually chatting to Russian officers outside their air base in Latakia, and here is what they learnt.
Russian speaking journalists working for France 24 ran into Russian servicemen in the port of Latakia. The TV crew claimed the servicemen were “military instructors sent by Moscow to train Syrians”.
Even though the officers asked them to switch off their camera and take no pictures, the crew left the camera running.
When asked how long they think they will stay in Syria, the servicemen replied:
“We’ll take a pass on that one. We can just tell you that we’ve been here since the beginning and will be here until the end. In fact, we don’t know ourselves when we’ll be leaving…But we hope that it will be over soon…”
When apparently asked to comment on the Syrian army, the officers said:
“You know, they [presumably the Syrians] have got everything: tanks and equipment…it is just such a mindset, the mentality is kind of like, more or less, Chechnya – [everything] is being bought and sold.”
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