{"id":61758,"date":"2018-10-01T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61758"},"modified":"2018-10-01T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:20:21","slug":"russia-loses-112-soldiers-in-syria-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/russia-loses-112-soldiers-in-syria-in-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia loses 112 soldiers in Syria in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russia has lost 112 servicemen during its three-year operation in Syria, a senior lawmaker said late Sunday in a news conference.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;As of today, the losses of our armed forces in Syria stand at 112 people, with the crashes of An-26 and Il-20 accounting for about a half of them,&#8221; Viktor Bondarev, chairman of the defense and security committee of Federation Council, upper house of the Russian parliament, and former commander of Russia\u2019s aerospace forces, told journalists in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Material losses include eight planes, seven helicopters and, probably, one or two armored personnel carriers and armored motorcars,&#8221; he added, according to TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>On March 6, a Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed in Syria killing all 39 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 18, Russia said one of its Il-20 military aircraft, with 15 servicemen aboard, was downed accidentally by Syria\u2019s Russian-made S-200 air-defense system.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has lost 112 servicemen during its three-year operation in Syria, a senior lawmaker said late Sunday in a news conference. &#8220;As of today, the losses of our armed forces in Syria stand at 112 people, with the crashes of An-26 and Il-20 accounting for about a half of them,&#8221; Viktor Bondarev, chairman of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,101,14],"tags":[599,9002,78136],"class_list":["post-61758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-viktor-bondarev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}