our boys are helping the poor syrians. with success. what's russia doing in syria. so that you. will get some kind of assistance for the country so that with the assistance of that it can have what's it called again peace that's it. has our youth should see the tools of war so they know that war is terrible. absent from viewer the russians who didn't make it back from syria. the defense ministry says one hundred sixteen soldiers were killed in combat but it's not just ordinary troops who are deployed their. human rights activists say private armies from russia are also fighting mercenaries who don't appear in any official figures. for months a big grazer but no one knows the exact number of private soldiers fighting in