SOHR: Russia is recruiting hundreds of Syrians to combat in Ukraine

An ally of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Russia introduced on March 11 that volunteers, together with these from Syria, had been welcome to combat alongside the Russian military in Ukraine, a rustic invaded by Moscow on March 24 February. The SOHR, which has an intensive community of sources in Syria, assures that Russian officers, in coordination with the Syrian military and allied militias, have opened registration workplaces in areas held by the Damascus regime. .

Russian officers, deployed in Syria as a part of Moscow’s army intervention in 2015 to assist the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, have at this stage authorized the applying of twenty-two,000 Syrians, in keeping with the director of the NGO, Rami Abdel Rahmane. These fighters come both from items of the common Syrian military or from pro-regime militias educated by the Russians and having expertise of preventing in city areas, in keeping with the identical supply.

In a rustic the place troopers earn 13 to 32 euros per 30 days, Russia guarantees them a month-to-month wage of 1,000 euros to combat in Ukraine, says the Observatory. They’re additionally entitled to 7,000 euros in compensation for accidents, whereas their households will obtain 15,000 euros in the event that they had been to die in fight, in keeping with the NGO.

Some 18,000 further males have registered with Syria’s ruling Ba’ath Social gathering and will likely be chosen by the Wagner Group, a non-public Russian paramilitary firm with ties to the Kremlin, the SOHR mentioned.

A consultant of the Syrian authorities denied the existence of this recruitment marketing campaign. “To this point no names have been listed, no troopers are registered and nobody has traveled to Russia to combat in Ukraine,” Omar Rahmoun, of the Nationwide Reconciliation Committee, advised AFP.