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Turkey had moved some of its Syrian proxies from the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan to Ukraine, Sputnik reported on March 9, citing a source in the Syrian opposition.
More than 2,000 Turkish-backed Syrian militants were moved to Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, where they took part in the large-scale Azerbaijani offensive on Armenian forces in the region.
According to Sputnik’s source, Turkey is now working to move all the remaining militants in Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine. The militants will be fighting the Russian military which is currently counducting a special military operation to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine.
“Turkey has transferred some of the mercenaries, including Syrian militants and others from different nationalities, from Karabakh to Ukraine, and intends to transfer the rest in batches, to participate in the battle on the side of the Ukrainian military,” the unnamed source said.
The source noted that some of the Turkish-backed militants who were moved to Ukraine have already joined the so-called “International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine”.
Sputnik’s report is not surprising. One recent report revealed that Ukrainian intelligence agents paid a secret visit to northern Syria to hire Turkish-backed militants on February 4, around 20 days before the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. Another recent report exposed ongoing work to recruit terrorists from al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the de-facto ruler of the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, to fight against the Russian military in Ukraine.
Turkey may be moving Syrian militants indirectly from Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine in order to avoid any reaction from the Russian military who maintains a large, capable force in Syria.
Wondering if russians would move half the air and land forces from Syria to Ukraine.
No need to. Only around 5% of the Russian Aerospace Forces are in Syria. Army is even less than that. Turkey is getting rid of the radicals in the area. They are deploying them from one meat grinder into the other. They don’t want them near Turkey nor Idlib. They are nothing but cannonfodder.
This post most be treated as the utmost propaganda that it is. I wonder what’s happened to Russian propagandists. I’ll understand if Russia is looking for some excuse to start a war with Turkey. But if you guys really believe this horseshit, then you must be worse morons than I thought.
I mean, Turkey just hosted peace talks between Ukraine and Russia at the highest level since the outbreak of hostilities. Would Russia agree to hold talks in Turkey when Turkey is sending “terrorist” to fight Russian soldiers in Ukraine?
You fuckers don’t seem to understand the economic lose to Turkey due to this war. Erdogan is currently having a hard time staying neutral while Ukraine keeps banging on Turkey’s doors for more TB2s.
Anyway, if this war continues for up to a year, I don’t think Russia will emerge from the Ukrainian war half as strong as it was before the war. Serves Putin well for pulling such a wrong dangerous move. Welcome to your quagmire Putin. The U.S will make sure thousands of your soldiers perish in Ukraine.
It’s not Erdogan you guys should worry about. It’s the CIA. They’ll make Ukraine another Afghanistan for Russia. Think of the so-called international volunteers. PMCs will be hired from allover the world and thrown at Russian forces.
if its true then Russia should immediately start attacking Syrian militant and al-Qaida in idlib an take over all of norhten syria and push militant in turkey. once idlib is clearred mve syrian force to isil area and cleaned those terrorist and once that is finish allow all those fighters who wish to fight alqeda in ukraine to support Russian army
Another even greater pain for the Erdogan hypocrisy is to arm the kurds inside Turkey.
turkish bayraktars are ripping apart the russian forces in ukraine…turkey closed the straits for russia…turkey is sending militants in ukraine to fight vs russia…but zaharova is agry with greece cause it send 100 usless ak47s to poland…lol
Ukraine stocked up footage from the early days before they were all shot down.
i hope you are right
ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑ ΞΥΠΝΗΣΕΣ…..
Not trying to be funny but they are going to behead a Russian civilian. Totally ignored by Western MSM controlled CIA of course, only Russians commit war crimes, not heroic Ukrainian neo-nazis. The main stream media in the US is so patheticly biased
They may! But they might as well stick a hand grenade in their a$$ and pull the pin, cos the Russians are not going to take it lying down. They got away with that kind of behaviour in Syria because Syria was at its weakest at that point. Do that to Russia at its strongest – good luck!
This is the type of behaviour that makes turkey not trustworthy. They play a double game. However I also wondering they’re are still rogue elements left from the failed coup that are behind these types of moves.
Erdogan is on a win win. He knows that the hands of President Putin are tied because of access to Crimean ports via the Bosphorus. Erdogan also gets to rid himself of the terrorists he has created by sending them to all the trouble spots of the world, thereby reducing the number psychopathic and sociologically damaged terrorists likely to request Turkish citizenship, which Erdogan promised them all some time ago. He will keep them fighting until they are all gone.
Because of this, Erdogan can kiss Idlib goodbye, and soon probably.
He’s blocked the Bosphorus to Russian ships on orders from his Natostan bosses in Washington DC while hiding behind the Montreaux convention. The question is, has he allowed any American or other non-Black Sea based Nato ships to pass the straits into the Black Sea since the beginning of hostilities. If not, the Russians, will wait for a Merdogan slip up and pound him with a rain of missles. In that scenario, Iran is sitting and awaiting for the call to go into action. According to Islamic eschatology, Constantinople will be conquered by a muslim army and the Haga Sofia will be given back to Christianity. Persia will regain control of the western borders of its pre-Alexander the Great Empire.
I am turk i hate Erdogan much But i think he win election because he love corrupt and kokain
I feel for you man. Caught between him and that cult leading CIA helper Fetallah Gulen
Is this not ‘an act of war’ by Turkey?
They’ve, their government that is, stabbed the Russians in the back more than a few times now.
Erogdan is really playing with fire now. It is not right to put the people of his nation at risk to satisfy his megalomania and hubris. No joke meant, but this is a game of Russian Roulette that he needs to stop. Playing both sides in a situation like this is fucking stupid.
He’s a masonic satanic fool. The Young Turks to which he belongs to as Ataturk did are a masonic organization founded by Giuseppe Mazzini when he was the head of World Freemasonry in the middle of the 1800s. Giovane Italia or Young Italy still exists to this day as an organization attracting people from the far conservative right.
That explains it to a degree. Off memory, I also remember reading things that suggested the Muslim Brotherhood had long been in the pocket of the British Intelligence during the empire years then passed to the US.
As an Italian, you’ve suffered at the hands of the Masonic monsters more than most. One of their lodges, Propaganda Due in Livorno, was instramental in the falsle flag terror in Italia in the 70s & 80s. Part of that nasty CIA Operation known as ‘Gladio’ . They were responsible for killing Aldo Moro on the orders of that serioulsy evil scumbag Henry Kissinger. Moro’s wife stated that Kissenger threatend him on the phone when he tried to enact a genuine power sharing arrangement.
Any genuinely free society should ban freemasonry.
Do not ever thrust Erdogan! But the Tsar knew it before he met him, still he thought he could control him. That was the first mistake, nobody controls Erdogan, not even he him self. You should never forget the nature of the scorpion, he will sting you in the middle of the river.
Just like every other country in the NATO Killer Klub.
I am turk i never trust Erdogan he is worse than Israel
It has already been determined that NATO is going to let the Kiev Klown Kar go off the cliff, and they are readying an OUN-B 2.0 to keep the region in total chaos for the forseeable future as the new phase of the hybrid war against Russia. The Kiev regime literally sentenced their citizenry to life in a Cold War battle zone for years to come.
Bring out the Il-22pp and AN-12pp. Locate and jam those remaining UKROP air defenses so the SU-34 can go in and iron them with KH-31P/KH-58.
RU should forward deploy a S-300PM2 battery with Nebo-SVU north of Kiev and nera Chernihiv. This will create an anti-stealth zone of 60km against bayraktar. Protecting the massive armor columns from coward bayraktar sneak attacks. I say s300pm2 because less risky than S-400 and they have plenty plenty of them. Must be protected by pantsir and tor because ukrops would use artillery/MLRS to target it.
Why does Putin have any dealing with the Sublime Sultan of arseholes?
Because they’re neighbours and because the SS of A is no more loyal to NATO than he is to anybody else.
Yep, the man certainly sees himself as a ‘Player, In reality though, Erogdan comes across as a loose cannon, albiet with a bit of savvy. Unlike the childish insult throwing embarrassments that run my (UK) country, Putin understands genuine diplomacy and statecraft. He seems to have a lot of restraint. I was suprised that he didn’t punish Erogdan when he shot that Russain jet down over Syria after having a massive tantrum because the Russains destroyed one his brother’s stolen oil covoys.