INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Their names appeared in various publicly available sources, as well as in internal Wagner documents that were leaked to journalists between
2016 and 2022.BBC Russia said it identified the contract soldiers who were killed between October 2015 and October 2024 based on their
deaths of 116 contract soldiers in Syria between 2015 and 2019.Russia intervened in the Syrian civil war in September 2015 to help
then-President Bashar al-Assad crush the opposition and the Islamic State terrorist group
Assad, who was also backed by Iran, was toppled on Sunday after a two-week Islamist-led advance.The regime change raised questions about the
guarantee security to Russian military and diplomatic facilities in Syria.
