Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad in December watch the troops marching at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. Putin's government denies Russian mercenaries killed in Syria worked on behalf of Russia. (Mikhail Klimentyev / AP)
Stanislav Matveev left his home in the Ural Mountains in September to join a Russian private military company. Five months later, Matveev was dead, killed in a U.S. airstrike on Feb. 7 in eastern Syria.
Matveev's widow, Yelena Matveeva, wants answers from the Kremlin about why her husband is dead. By some accounts, scores of Russian contractors were killed.
"I'd like everyone to know about my husband," she said in an interview with Znak, a Russian news site. "And not only about my husband, but about all the boys who died there so stupidly. Where were they sent to, and why? They didn't even have protection, they were like pigs sent to slaughter!"
But just who sent them? There's no easy answer.
Source : latimes
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