A spokesman for the opposition Free Syrian Army had said earlier on Al Arabiya television that Russian Gen. Vladimir Kodzhiyev serving as an advisor to the Syrian defense minister had been killed.
A video statement from a Syrian rebel group calling itself the “Hawks Special Operations Battalion…a division of the Military Leadership of Damascus City and Province”, gave the name of the general as Vladimir Petrovich Kodzhiyev. The video, sent to Reuters, showed what the rebels said was a copy of his ID, as issued by the Syrian military.
Never happened and my understanding is that he was a past advisor in Syria and is retired…
Lies and more lies…
Windows to Russia…