First Western media interviews with families of Russian mercenaries killed in Syria

By Nataliya Vasilyeva

Nataliya Vasilyeva, reporter, Moscow, for finding the families of Russian mercenary fighters killed in fighting in Syria, putting a human face on the cost of Putin’s secret war. http://bit.ly/2CBFVYd

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FEB. 23, 2018

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