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| 2017: Second capture of Palmyra |
| 2023-03-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin; [C9lonelCassad] “Yes, indeed, on March 2, 2017, at dawn, I arrived near Palmyra and was there along with one high-ranking official from the Syrian administration, who came to thank my fighters for agreeing to recapture Palmyra from the enemy for the second time. The first to enter Palmyra was Ratibor, the commander of the first assault detachment. I remember his words well, he turned to the official and said: “If you fuck Palmyra again, we won’t beat it off for the third time.” Ratibor led his assault squad several kilometers through the minefields to "height 939", the very famous height that became the key to the "first Palmyra". This height was on a completely open slope, and the guys climbed to it, absolutely not covered from enemy machine guns. By noon, Ratibor entered it and went to the left along the ridge until he had taken all the main heights by night. The Syrian troops refused to support us during this assault. In principle, the Syrian army rarely fought, it usually followed in herds in our footsteps when the deed was already done. This is what happened in Palmyra. After we took the power plant and Palmyra airport, I reported this to our command. And the order was given to advance the Syrian troops, they entered the city along the southern road behind the mountain range. From Palmyra, after some time, we continued to move towards Deir ez-Zor. Syrian troops entered the city when it was actually safe. So it was in all the battles in the Syrian war. Then for another two weeks they sent me photographs of the equipped positions of those very heights and the “spirits” killed in them. These were burrows and fortresses. It is no coincidence that Palmyra has been so well defended for thousands of years. Its geographical position is very well thought out and inscribed in the terrain. After Palmyra, we continued to move towards Deir ez-Zor. It was followed by Es-Sukhna, then Esh-Shola, where the heroes Tsurkanu and Zabolotny were later captured in an unequal battle, but these are already other fragments from the history of Wagner PMC (c) Prigozhin |
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