Meant Syria: the lawyer of a Russian officer explained the words of his client to participate in the war with “a neighbouring country”

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He also said that the military did not say in the court the word “neighbor.”

A lawyer acting a Russian officer, Oleg Leontiev, who is on the court during the last words said that he participated in military actions on the territory of a neighboring country, where we supposedly had”, explained that his client was actually talking about Syria.

About it reports the edition “jellyfish”.

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Lawyer officer Igor Chevichalov told that the Russian officer Leontiev, when talking about participation in the war with “a neighbouring country”, meant Syria, not Ukraine, and the word “adjacent” is not mentioned at all.

“It then came up. I don’t remember what he said … I Think I’m listening to what they’re saying? You see, every day the courts every day,” said the lawyer.

The publication also notes that in 2015 the Russian soldier part 32010, where is Leont’ev, on condition of anonymity, have told Reuters that in the summer / fall of 2014, he along with several comrades in the service he participated in military operations on Donbass.

Leontiev Naro-Fominskiy garrison military court on 6 July was found guilty in the death of an employee the military service of Ilya Gorbunov. The conscripts did not have access to military equipment, however, in February 2017, he was ordered to overtake the tank with the broken brakes. During the passage over the bridge with ice tank fell into the water, and Gorbunov was lost.

During a speech last speech on 4 July, the Russian officer asked the court to take a “positive decision”, so he could go to fight in Syria. Previously, he said, he had already participated in the war in the territory “of a neighboring country, where we supposedly had”. The only neighbouring country of Russia, where the participation of its armed forces, the Kremlin is absolutely denied, is Ukraine.

Meant Syria: the lawyer of a Russian officer explained the words of his client to participate in the war with “a neighbouring country”

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