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A look at an Assault -part 2
On the 19th of January we once again drove to the front line, this time in a MTLB(soviet armored tracked towing vehicle) this time we were escorted by the cute pink bear which was living in there
(soldiers words) Approach and take a look where is the Sukaina mosque, yesterday we captured the opposite to the mosque one storey building, and the next tall one, behind which is the mosque, the rebels are in the mosque (reporter ) well then this is where we go
The solider is escorting us to the positions , there are few safe places along our route
Here we got to the contact line
Be careful ,an enemy sniper is working ,the rebels are up top and the sniper is on the opposite side in the dome of the mosque
The soldiers are working with no rush
The hot phase of the operation begins (the assault) and we are asked to leave the scene
on the way back we stop to talk with the soldiers , seeing journalists they begin to speak without waiting for our questions, sharing their feelings
(soldier's words) Yesterday at 10 o'clock in the evening I was phoned from home and told that they are defending defending form the atacking terrorists,terrorists are ataking the Al-Zahra village, initialy they shelled the village with tanks,thanks god there were no casualties,also there was an atack on the Mubaly village
locals have repeled the atack , there are many dead and wounded among the rebels , al the endrebels where from the Al-Nusra Front, among them were many foreigners, the villages are blocked by the fighter of the Al-Nusra front for about 5 months , but the villagers are determined to fight to the end
it is a tought situation with the supplies,it is hard to get bread or flour, some times the are capable to get help form the surrounding villages , there are many foreign fighters among the rebels , when we clear houses we finde their burned bodyes ,we killed one in the basment
when we entered the basment we saw that they have aranged a confortable envoierment for themself and also found topographic maps,as they do not now the terrain
Simple men what are forced by the rebels to fight, do not fight with us , they fire from long distances as soon as we approache they leave their weapons and run, they threw a molotov cocktail to a dead body,and burned it completely
(reporter) tell from where is each of you ?
(soldiers)Holms,Damascus,Aleppo,Idleb,Holms,Idleb,Idleb,Aleppo,Idleb,Idleb
(reporter) who worries more you for your parents or they for you?
(soldier) Of course parents worry more for us ,but we also are worried about them
(reporter) who you were befor the army?
I finished the art facultyof an univerisity, worked as an employee, came to army as a voluteer to defend my country, for the first 5 months we were not taking the salary, after this we were appointed a mandatory wage to help our families to survive
(2nd soldier) I was a farmer came to the army as a volunteer
(3rd) worker ,volunteer
(4th) engineer in industrial tech repairs, we all here are voluteers
(reporter) how many of you have children?
(soldiers) mine is 10 days old , I'm here 5 days , saw the firts 5 days of his life
(2nd)I got married 4 months ago my wife is pregnant
(3rd) All of us have families and children, I have 4 kids
we came here to free this region from Al-Nusra
(reporter) for what are the rebels fighting ? how do you think?
(soldiers) their goal is to destroy the country, what other goal can they have if they destroy houses,force the civilians to flee their houses,loot,destroy infrastructure,blow up power plants,gas distribution stations,oil lines,roads,they brought us 100 years back
when people were cooking food on wood fire,they iven desecrate graves, 4 days ago they shelled the cemetery with mortars,explosions unburied 4 graves there were bodies everywhere,which religion alows this,
until now the cost of a 1Kg of bread was 10 liras meanwhile everywhere else in the world about 100 liras,this bread was enough for 4 people, what freedom do they want? all that is happening is a conspiracy,their main support comes form Qatar and Saudi Arabia,
they are financed by Qatar companies,several times we found foreign currency on their possitions Turkish,Kuweity,Saudi,Qatari, Jordanian currency, what freedom they are talking if they destroy the country, all the people want good relations with Russia
meanwhile they run to US and Israel, a small number of conspirators have destroyed our lives, burned our houses ,I want to ask why they burned my house ?they forced us to weapons,to defend our homes
how many women are ***, this is a crime for which they must be punished
aspecialy many women are *** near the border with Turkey, people form Idleb know of this,
they(rebels) often speack about religion and do not accept any other religion than their own, we never befor had wahhabism and salafism, they exported to us wahabism
what is the difference between Russia and US, Russian never attacked other countries, hasn't practiced colonization ,Russia exports science, France,Turkey,US,Israel are always attacking in the region trying to capture others
Syria for 400 years was in the Ottoman Empire ,then they stole and destroyed every thing ,now it all repeats ,they forced our ancestors to work for them,after this came the French who for 30 years have done the same,stealing and looting, stole our gold
this is why we belive that our only friend is Russia
(reporter) What is the hardest in the combat actions ?
(soilders) the hardest are the mines ,we have advanced a long way in Darayaa in each house at least 6-7 mines, we defused a dozen of mines with a weigh of 30-40 kg, thank god till now we defused all af them succesefully,this proves that god is with us,and we are doing the right thing
this is with what we defuze the mines (the scisors with orange handles)
two bullets hit him in the arm , and he is still fighting ,he doesn't want to leave ,this is a true soilder,
the terrorists are form different countries , Egyptians,Tunisians,Libyan,Turks,Chechen(they refer so to all fighters form Caucas) and some Africans, they think they are fighting a holy war out here,thank god we are succesefully oppossing them and eliminate them
on this good note we end another day of filming Goodbye pink bear ,we will be back soon
Anna New agency , Marat Musin ,Vasily Pavlov,Andrei Kuzminov,Victor Kuznetsov Damascus Syria