and adding that a quarter of them had received awards for their service in Syria. Yet this information gave the lie to the long-standing claim by the Kremlin and Defense Ministry that Russian troops had not been taking part in the ground operations in Syria -- a claim Polygraph.info has previously debunked.The newspaper's reporter asked Gerasimov: The information department of the Russian Defense Ministry and the General Staff has practically daily informed the public after almost every missile/bomb attack on the terrorists in Syria. Why
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In an interview with the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published on December 26, Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, who is chief of the general staff of the country's armed forces, answered questions regarding Russia’s military operation in Syria.Despite the lengthy interview, General Gerasimov provided little new information beyond stating that [m]ore than 48
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