{"id":8144,"date":"2016-03-29T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2016-03-29T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:57:40","slug":"russian-army-troops-participate-offensive-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-army-troops-participate-offensive-palmyra\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Army Troops Participate in Offensive on Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just a few days ago the commander of the Russian Army contingent in Syria <a href=\"http:\/\/rg.ru\/2016\/03\/23\/aleksandr-dvornikov-dejstviia-rf-v-korne-perelomili-situaciiu-v-sirii.html\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0the participation of Russian Spetsnaz in Syrian military operation on the ground, allegedly as recon units for airstrike targeting. At that time, we asked ourselves: when would the Russian Federation acknowledge the presence in Syria of not only Spetsnaz but also of the large combined army group consisting of marine and army units from three Military Districts: howitzer and rocket artillery battalions, company tactical groups from both light and heavy infantry brigades, radiation and chemical defense units, logistics specialists, and many others that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?s=syria\" target=\"_blank\">uncovered<\/a> by <span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">InformNapalm<\/span><a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/informnapalm?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=957509577695622\"><span class=\"_58cm\">\u202c<\/span><\/a> since the fall of 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Russian media outlets have been <a href=\"http:\/\/newsru.com\/world\/25mar2016\/palmiraretakes_print.html\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that Syrian government army of Bashar Assad had defeated IS militants and took over the ancient fortress of Palmyra near Tadmor city in Homs province.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRight now fierce fighting continues in the Syrian desert oasis, where Palmyra is located. The government army has taken control of SyriaTel Hill near Palmyra and some other hills around the city of Tadmor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not so. According to the photos we have discovered in the social network profiles of Russian soldiers, regular Russian army units, and not Spetsnaz, as Kremlin generals have stated, are directly involved in that fighting. One of them is a recon unit of <strong>the 20th Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit 22220, based in Volgograd, Southern Military District), recently redeployed to Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photos from the battlefield have been uploaded to the social network profile of a Russian soldier named <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id276604147\" target=\"_blank\">Sergey Gavrilov<\/a><\/strong> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ih4UU\" target=\"_blank\">his archived profile<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/F62T8\" target=\"_blank\">his archived photo album<\/a>). Most of the photos are recent, many of them had photo filters applied and don&#8217;t show faces, but they still provide clear evidence of the presence of Russian troops near Palmyra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-7.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"891\" height=\"626\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3-6.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"694\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21538 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4-6.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"665\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-3.jpg\" alt=\"12\" width=\"708\" height=\"637\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21542 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14-1.jpg\" alt=\"14\" width=\"673\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/15-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/15-2.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"675\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21546 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20-1.jpg\" alt=\"20\" width=\"903\" height=\"568\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/77.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21547\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21547 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/77.jpg\" alt=\"77\" width=\"669\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/151.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21554\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21554 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/151.jpg\" alt=\"151\" width=\"689\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Volgograd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/157.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/157.jpg\" alt=\"157\" width=\"708\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/158.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/158.jpg\" alt=\"158\" width=\"685\" height=\"636\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/176.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21548\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/176.jpg\" alt=\"176\" width=\"678\" height=\"631\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/273.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21549 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/273.jpg\" alt=\"273\" width=\"1141\" height=\"604\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional original photos\u00a0can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id276604147?z=albums276604147\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or, if the original album is deleted, in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/F62T8\" target=\"_blank\">its archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article uses the original OSINT research by the international volunteer group <strong>InformNapalm.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">CC BY 4.0 \u2013 <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/21469-palmira-rossijskie-vojska\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Original article<\/span><\/a> written by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\" target=\"_blank\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a><\/strong>, translated by Anton Gavazuk. Upon reuse of the material, an active link to the author and our project is desirable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago the commander of the Russian Army contingent in Syria acknowledged\u00a0the participation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,528,531],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotnews","category-news","category-syria","tag-syria"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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At that time, we asked ourselves: when would the Russian Federation acknowledge the presence in Syria of not only Spetsnaz but also of the large combined army group consisting of marine and army units from three Military Districts: howitzer and rocket artillery battalions, company tactical groups from both light and heavy infantry brigades, radiation and chemical defense units, logistics specialists, and many others that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?s=syria\" target=\"_blank\">uncovered<\/a> by <span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">InformNapalm<\/span><a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/informnapalm?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=957509577695622\"><span class=\"_58cm\">\u202c<\/span><\/a> since the fall of 2015.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAt the same time, Russian media outlets have been <a href=\"http:\/\/newsru.com\/world\/25mar2016\/palmiraretakes_print.html\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that Syrian government army of Bashar Assad had defeated IS militants and took over the ancient fortress of Palmyra near Tadmor city in Homs province.\r\n\r\n<em>\u201cRight now fierce fighting continues in the Syrian desert oasis, where Palmyra is located. The government army has taken control of SyriaTel Hill near Palmyra and some other hills around the city of Tadmor.\u201d<\/em>\r\n\r\nNot so. According to the photos we have discovered in the social network profiles of Russian soldiers, regular Russian army units, and not Spetsnaz, as Kremlin generals have stated, are directly involved in that fighting. One of them is a recon unit of <strong>the 20th Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit 22220, based in Volgograd, Southern Military District), recently redeployed to Syria.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nPhotos from the battlefield have been uploaded to the social network profile of a Russian soldier named <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id276604147\" target=\"_blank\">Sergey Gavrilov<\/a><\/strong> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ih4UU\" target=\"_blank\">his archived profile<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/F62T8\" target=\"_blank\">his archived photo album<\/a>). Most of the photos are recent, many of them had photo filters applied and don't show faces, but they still provide clear evidence of the presence of Russian troops near Palmyra.\r\n\r\n<strong>Syria<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21536\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-7.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"891\" height=\"626\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21537\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3-6.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"694\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21538\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21538 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/4-6.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"665\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21541\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-3.jpg\" alt=\"12\" width=\"708\" height=\"637\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21542\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21542 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14-1.jpg\" alt=\"14\" width=\"673\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/15-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21543\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/15-2.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"675\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21546\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21546 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20-1.jpg\" alt=\"20\" width=\"903\" height=\"568\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/77.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21547\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21547 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/77.jpg\" alt=\"77\" width=\"669\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/151.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21554\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21554 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/151.jpg\" alt=\"151\" width=\"689\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Volgograd<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/157.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21557\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/157.jpg\" alt=\"157\" width=\"708\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/158.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21556\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/158.jpg\" alt=\"158\" width=\"685\" height=\"636\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/176.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21548\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/176.jpg\" alt=\"176\" width=\"678\" height=\"631\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/273.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21549\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-21549 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/273.jpg\" alt=\"273\" width=\"1141\" height=\"604\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nAdditional original photos\u00a0can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id276604147?z=albums276604147\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or, if the original album is deleted, in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/F62T8\" target=\"_blank\">its archive<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<em>This article uses the original OSINT research by the international volunteer group <strong>InformNapalm.<\/strong>\r\n<\/em>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">CC BY 4.0 \u2013 <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/21469-palmira-rossijskie-vojska\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Original article<\/span><\/a> written by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\" target=\"_blank\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a><\/strong>, translated by Anton Gavazuk. 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