What's absolutely astonishing about the battle of Deir Ezzor that happened last week and where even according to the official U.S. reports some 100 fighters , mainly russians, lost their lives, is the lack of covering this story in mainstream, even by U.S. and other western media. Not that the western mainstream media wouldn't cover this story at all, but the covering is rather scarce. It might give you a hint that this battle was likely a bigger f*ck up than we think. According to this russian source , the russian losses might be as high as 640 dead soldiers, or about 20% of the whole russian contingent in Syria. This would rank it to the biggest russian military loss during a single battle since WW2. This would also e
