We walked along the edge of the road: a video from the place of the death of a Russian general in Syria appeared on the network

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Some details are emerging related to the tragic event in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. This is an incident that resulted in the death of a major general of the Russian Armed Forces. At the same time, according to some reports, two more Russian servicemen were injured.

Initially, it was reported that the Russian general was moving in a car, and an explosion allegedly thundered on one of the sections of the route. Now a video has appeared on the network, the captions to which say that the very moment of the explosion was captured.

From the video, it becomes clear that the explosion occurred at the moment when the servicemen were walking. The video appeared on the Telegram channel "Herald of Damascus".

Russian speech is heard. One of the servicemen says that they will not stop in this territory. These words were spoken literally a few seconds before the tragedy. When a group of servicemen, accompanied by the Syrian militia, approached one of the vehicles in the convoy, an explosion thundered.

It is noteworthy that all this was filmed by one of the Syrian soldiers. It was on the camera of his mobile phone that the moment of the explosion hit. The cameraman was a few meters behind the Russian general and his escort.

Noteworthy is the fact that the servicemen actually walked along the edge of the road, which is more than unsafe in Syria. An explosive device went off, which was planted precisely on the side of the road.

In this regard, the question arises: is it an accident that the Russian general was led along the side of the road - through the place where the explosive device was planted? Is this an incredible negligence, or was it a planned action? To questions in this tragic stories the investigation must answer.

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    1. +2
      21 August 2020 17: 59
      or was it a planned action?

      It can not be in any other way.
    2. +2
      21 August 2020 18: 07
      If there is no one around, then it turns out that someone from the column set off the IED, or was it blown up by a mine?
      1. +3
        21 August 2020 22: 09
        Demining and suppression vehicles will now be added to the convoy.
        1. +2
          22 August 2020 01: 36
          It is necessary to drive a T-90 or "Armata" in the area of ​​hostilities ...
        2. 0
          22 August 2020 14: 08
          - I can repeat two more times for the "guys from the construction battalion": it is better to put on the generals not mines (of all stripes), but remotely operated shellless land mine, - he is not taken by any mine detectors, no mine clearing machines, and even driving a tank against him does not help much ...
          1. 0
            25 August 2020 16: 07
            But the dogs smell it well. And there are chemical detectors for explosives (simulators of a dog's nose, as it were)
            1. 0
              25 August 2020 17: 45
              - So with pepper, sprinkle with pepper! laughing So that the dogs do not take the trail! lol
    3. -2
      21 August 2020 18: 07
      It seems I was mistaken. hi
    4. +5
      21 August 2020 18: 23
      "In this regard, the question arises: is it an accident that the Russian general was taken along the sidelines?"
      - oh, I don't believe in such accidents.
      But not many people knew exactly where they would stop, what they would go to inspect, etc. It seems to me that this is not even just a betrayal of the next Khadovites, but a sabotage action not just by bearded men, but by someone more serious, since there is an exit to the plans of the advisor's office.
      May the earth rest in peace to the warrior and the most sincere condolences to his family and friends.
    5. +10
      21 August 2020 18: 27
      The explosion did not occur on the side of the road, but on the road itself, and it looks like this is really an ordinary mine ... No luck.
      1. +8
        21 August 2020 18: 52
        Quote: svp67
        No luck.

        Rather used to it too. And he began to neglect security measures.
        It is necessary to change more often. Then there will be no breakdowns, no "addiction"

        And they, you see, as usual: "Dragging? Well, let him continue dragging"
        1. +3
          21 August 2020 20: 16
          Quote: Spade
          Rather used to it too.

          He was a dashing guy, from a Cossack family.
          Quote: Spade
          And he began to neglect security measures.
          This is a controversial issue. Who did the engineering reconnaissance? Syrians or ours? Or was it not performed at all?
          They now bypassed the "trawl", which was supposed to pass through this place, but did not explode ...
          Quote: Spade
          "Dragging? Well, let him drag further"

          Yes, a replacement there seems to happen often, they try to give experience to as much as possible, there just really are those who already have great authority there, but someone needs to earn it, but the situation is different ...
    6. -3
      21 August 2020 18: 40
      If there is no one around, then it turns out that someone from the column set off the IED, or was it blown up by a mine?

      or a fighter in a camouflage trench within the range of a detonator ... an ambush
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      1. -1
        22 August 2020 16: 12
        The video shows that the general himself stepped on the mine


        On this side of the road, the people did not measure up, judging by the video, it was definitely a sabotage, after the tractor was blown up, they left a booby-trap mine with a remote detonation, the explosion power is not large, obviously designed for a small radius of destruction, questions to these two comrades who were shooting and who showed their finger by accident or for the report.
    8. +6
      21 August 2020 19: 16
      It can be seen before the explosion that there is a hill of freshly dug, un-rammed earth ahead, did the instinct of self-preservation really work? Direct jamb of the security group, or relied on the crucifixes of the Syrian military outpost. And why the hell were we walking?
    9. -3
      21 August 2020 19: 27
      It annoys me that the last soldier who was walking behind showed the operator directly to the explosion site or in the same direction. If not for this, everything would / looked much more trivial.
    10. +12
      21 August 2020 19: 29
      99% negligence and indifference of everyone who was there.
      1. +5
        21 August 2020 20: 30
        99% negligence and indifference of everyone who was there.

        At least a loss of vigilance. And there must be a sea of ​​instructions.
    11. -1
      21 August 2020 19: 45
      - Interesting ... Is the phone all that remains of the operator? If "yes" - an incident is possible, and if the filmmaker is alive - there are options ...
      - However, there could be another feedain in the group ... We exchanged a couple of our own for one of ours ...
      1. +1
        21 August 2020 22: 53
        Quote: saygon66
        Is the phone all that remains of the operator? If "yes" - an incident is possible, and if the filmmaker is alive - there are options ...

        Insert a thermorectal cryptanalyzer into a sensitive place and listen to how it sings. And also on camera.
    12. +4
      21 August 2020 20: 31
      Officers should not walk on the side of the road. no generals Nothing of the sort is seen or heard in the American army
    13. +4
      21 August 2020 20: 32
      So there is a video of the detonation. There are a lot of shortcomings, first of all, where is the engineering intelligence ??? If a tractor with a trawl is blown up, engineering reconnaissance works first of all! And above all on the roadway, where the blast happened. After all, mines one at a time, even in an uncontrollable version, are rarely placed, here, like with mushrooms, one worked, look for others !!
      What can I say, a good dog with a competent dog handler almost certainly did not allow such a situation. This means that it is necessary to expand this area of ​​training, while there is no way to provide reliable means of search and demining. So that there are enough dogs for each column!
    14. +9
      21 August 2020 20: 36
      Anti-personnel mine, definitely. I had a chance to visit the Chechen Republic at one time, there, when our columns were passing, at first the sappers and dog handlers passed the section. And here? What a crap! Complete sloppiness. The commanders themselves are to blame, they overlooked ... Where were the sappers? Some kind of amateur performance on the staff.
      1. +1
        21 August 2020 21: 42
        Which one? Have you seen the explosion? With this power, it should have been at least OZM, and it would cut everyone around.
        I think that anti-tank (characteristic explosion + no fragments) - for short-circuit or combined with anti-personnel. Or even some kind of homemade
        1. +6
          21 August 2020 23: 33
          The anti-tank weapon will not "press on" a person, the general did not weigh a ton. In the anti-tank, more than 6 kg of TNT, from it a terrible broad and a flash of fire from a two-story house. There they would have concussed everyone by 15 meters and cut them with stones. But about homemade products, you may be right.
          1. 0
            22 August 2020 01: 07
            Anti-tank and works on a person. They just put an antipersonnel or "frog" underneath it on top or again under it. It is unlikely that these Arabs are aware of this.
            1. +1
              22 August 2020 11: 37
              Quote: Alex Bergman
              Anti-tank and works on a person. They just put an antipersonnel or "frog" underneath it on top or again under it. It is unlikely that these Arabs are aware of this.

              I would like to see how you cock an anti-personnel mine when an anti-tank mine is on it.
              for this you need to take 500 at least.
        2. +2
          22 August 2020 01: 04
          Not. Not TM-62 for sure! Weak like that. Most likely PMN is in a non-removable position. Or homemade. 100 %% not ptm. Filmed a lot of them. It bangs so that only "hold the cap"! Not she.
          1. +2
            22 August 2020 03: 04
            She is herself. The explosion is very characteristic. It was not necessary to shoot, but to neutralize it by detonation, yes.

            Here is a photo immediately after the explosion from the side (as I understand it, they took pictures of the fire)


            But undermining tm62m

            I think that there was a tm with ms3, it was either touched, or it worked, maybe not for ms, but in general on some kind of anti-personnel
          2. 0
            22 August 2020 03: 09
            PMN will not give such an explosion. And to kill more than 1 person is doubtful
        3. +1
          22 August 2020 01: 19
          What does OZM have to do with it ??? How many types are there? Have you seen how they work? They are directional. Here is a 100 %% land mine.
          1. 0
            22 August 2020 03: 10
            SPM directional? What is it like? Is circular directional too? Are you confusing with MONK?
        4. +1
          22 August 2020 01: 21
          OZM is placed on the ground. It is easier than ever to visually detect it. And at least 10-15 meters it should be set. You will also braid the TM-80.
    15. -2
      21 August 2020 20: 52
      Stand on the level! Answer for us!
    16. +9
      21 August 2020 20: 57
      Noticing in the form of antediluvian, with 150-200 grams of TNT, push antipersonnel. Sappers can not always find this bitch at the supposed place, but only at the site of the explosion of equipment, and it is there that the action takes place, where everything is phonite - even more so (even the dogs are lost from the abundance of nitrogen compounds) ... An absurd accident ...- or rather, the usual army days of wartime ... - Unfortunately ...
      1. 0
        22 August 2020 01: 10
        Dogs do not react to nitrogen compounds. They are trained to smell for each type of explosive.
        1. +4
          22 August 2020 01: 15
          My uncle from Afgan brought his dog. I was still a cadet. I put a smoke bomb home. So I didn't go home yet - the dog began to growl. I had to hand over the checker to my uncle.;)))
        2. 0
          22 August 2020 06: 53
          All combat explosives contain nitrogen compounds (there is, of course, nitrogen-free exotic, but this is not about the troops). Dogs react to the complex smell of explosives containing nitrogen. For homemade products, you can also use compressed air ...
    17. +4
      21 August 2020 20: 58
      Something-which-once ... there is enough glory in the war! We hope for FART-Russian ABOS,. Here and there, straight, an illustration about how not to do ... Go to the sidelines, okay, a peaceable lop-eared-whole GENERAL! Moreover, not keeping a distance of 5 meters is already not enough for an anti-personnel mine. Even here, in Donbass, they immediately accustom them to 10-15. Well, one would be killed, the rest would have gotten off a shell shock. Sorry for the men. Sleep well ... Whoever needs to figure it out, whoever needs to be punished ..
      1. +2
        22 August 2020 01: 25
        Here I agree. Where is the engineering reconnaissance group ?! Carelessness !!! Nichrome do not think! Relaxed. Sappers are always in the forefront! Is always! It is written in blood!
    18. +4
      21 August 2020 21: 03
      Normal negligence! The Russian army is not without it. It just doesn't work to keep up with the times, it's still the old-fashioned way. The commander, along with himself and his subordinates, will ditch ...
    19. 0
      21 August 2020 21: 14
      This is an IED. The embankment exploded, which hid the IED.
      Considering what was served at the time of the General's passage, this is not an accident. They were waiting for him, well, or hoping that someone important would pass.
      Sloppiness, alas. But now they will be more attentive.
      Unfortunately, everything is written in blood. The main thing is that security measures were taken in response and that they did not go to the obviously visible IED tab.

      There would be more frames in the video, at least 60 ... And so, these are frames one after another.

      Sorry for the man, my condolences to Vyacheslav's family and friends.
      1. 0
        21 August 2020 21: 44
        Not a mound, the explosion was under the man walking to the left. Right below him.
        1. 0
          21 August 2020 21: 45
          Not a mound, the explosion was under the man walking to the left. Right below him.

          The frame shows that the embankment.
          1. 0
            21 August 2020 21: 56
            Have you watched the video itself?
            1. -1
              21 August 2020 22: 04
              Have you watched the video itself?

              In the Premiere, from where I pulled these frames.
              1. 0
                21 August 2020 22: 09
                Here is a photo. Apparently from the side of the smut. There are no mounds around the edges, no ditches.
                1. 0
                  21 August 2020 22: 10
                  And yes. The explosion is not anti-personnel
                2. -1
                  21 August 2020 22: 15
                  Quote: Florian Geyer
                  Here is a photo. Apparently from the side of the smut. There are no mounds around the edges, no ditches.

                  The quality is very poor, people can hardly be heard.
                  1. 0
                    21 August 2020 22: 16
                    There are no others, maybe it will appear later
                    1. -1
                      21 August 2020 22: 21
                      I twisted the filters to see at least something, but everything is exactly the same ...

                      Well, if someone was shooting with a 4k camera, it would be good. At least 1080p, at least ...
                      1. 0
                        21 August 2020 22: 23
                        Who will be there to specifically shoot something, the soldiers filmed the first moment after the explosion, apparently
                        1. -1
                          21 August 2020 22: 28
                          Who will be there to specifically shoot something, the soldiers filmed the first moment after the explosion, apparently

                          Those who blew up.
                          Pay attention to the playback times - 00: 00: 20: 20 and 00: 00: 20: 21.
                          Literally, frame by frame (above screenshots).

                        2. +1
                          21 August 2020 22: 33
                          Doesn't look like it's undermining. I got the strong impression that the comrade on the left specifically stepped on a push-action mine. Apparently put on whom God will send (probably to people who will come to pick up scrap metal, shown in the beginning).

                          I can even imagine how - an anti-personnel mine and high-explosive antipersonnel on top of it. Primitive, may not work, may work
                        3. -2
                          21 August 2020 22: 35
                          Doesn't look like it's undermining. I got the strong impression that the comrade on the left specifically stepped on a push-action mine. Apparently put on whom God will send (probably to people who will come to pick up scrap metal, shown in the beginning).

                          Powerful mines for a PP, but a human tank should not be triggered (the mass is not the same).
                          Well, detonating a mine at the expense of another mine ... I don't know ... But maybe it's possible.
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                        5. -1
                          21 August 2020 22: 42
                          More precisely, of course, Under her

                          It is necessary to ask the sappers if there are any at the VO. I don't know, to be honest ...
                        6. 0
                          21 August 2020 23: 04
                          The simplest thing. Tm 62 m is set for non-handling with a mine trap. A person steps on a mine and presses it down (or moves it). Or steps on one edge and the other edge of the mine rises. There is enough 3 mm. And everything follows an explosion.
                        7. 0
                          22 August 2020 01: 32
                          Sorry for the not modest question. Where did you study? Profile? Or intelligence? Speak correctly, but not as an expert on a number of points. Sorry if I'm wrong. NFVIKU (formerly NVVIKU).
                        8. 0
                          22 August 2020 01: 34
                          I'm out of here. Therefore, I am interested. In my opinion - superficial knowledge. Sorry again.
                        9. 0
                          22 August 2020 03: 13
                          Picked up during the service
                        10. 0
                          24 August 2020 19: 46
                          Lenpeh so ...
                        11. 0
                          22 August 2020 03: 12
                          VOKU, combined arms, motorized rifleman
                        12. 0
                          22 August 2020 03: 29
                          But you can't only know BMP and machine gun, you need to develop
                      2. 0
                        21 August 2020 22: 27
                        Actually, due to the combination of circumstances (explosion on the road, pt mine, apparently initially against technology, etc.) I think this is an accidental explosion
                        1. -1
                          21 August 2020 22: 31
                          Actually, due to the combination of circumstances (explosion on the road, pt mine, apparently initially against technology, etc.) I think this is an accidental explosion

                          I doubt it. Is that just a wild accident.
                          If the mine is old, which just almost rotted away, then it can work from a man weighing 60-70 kg, but it only works there for 100 kg.
                        2. +1
                          21 August 2020 22: 34
                          Throw in antipersonnel from above it happens. And a friend of at least 100 kg
                        3. -1
                          21 August 2020 22: 37
                          Throw in antipersonnel from above it happens. And a friend of at least 100 kg

                          Yes, no, what is there for 100 kg. ... Everything would be bad there even without a mine, the motor would have failed.
                        4. 0
                          21 August 2020 22: 35
                          I would say an accident as a result of the sloppiness of those who led the column
                        5. 0
                          21 August 2020 22: 38
                          I would say an accident as a result of the sloppiness of those who led the column

                          Maybe an accident, quite possible. But I'm still leaning towards remote blasting.
                          In general, it is strange that not so long ago our armored personnel carrier was so blown up, but it seems that we did not draw any conclusions.
                        6. 0
                          22 August 2020 22: 44
                          The APC was blown up by an apparently 152 or 155 shell. With remote detonation. I’ll find a couple of such examples in Chechnya, even with a video, in 5 minutes. And this is a completely different place and the strikers there are different.
                          And I do not believe that someone could have known that the column would stop at this place, and that it was our people who would go past this land mine.

                          Can you imagine how much intelligence work is required for this? Equipment and the like? I'm not sure even the Turks are capable of this. Americans and Jews. But why should they?
          2. 0
            21 August 2020 21: 59
            That this is definitely not an anti-personnel mine. Or unexploded ordnance, or SVU or anti-tank mine. I would say anti-tank or SVU based on it. Very characteristic explosion, just like the tm-62
            1. +5
              21 August 2020 23: 37
              That this is definitely not an anti-personnel mine. Or unexploded ordnance, or SVU or anti-tank mine. I would say anti-tank or SVU based on it. Very characteristic explosion, just like the tm-62

              Are you a sapper or a professional explosives technician ??????? .... I will not explain the difference between 200 grams of TNT and six to ten kilos ...
              Let them show you what is the difference between anti-personnel and which is larger:
              1. 0
                22 August 2020 03: 15
                I saw how mines explode. That's why I say
                1. 0
                  22 August 2020 07: 38
                  That this is definitely not an anti-personnel mine. Or unexploded ordnance, or SVU or anti-tank mine. I would say anti-tank or SVU based on it. Very characteristic explosion, just like the tm-62

                  I saw how mines explode. That's why I say

                  Sorry, but I disagree: - after the anti-tank one (nothing) there would be no one (nothing) to deliver to the hospital ... and the operator would be silent forever ... And so the usual high-explosive pressure PMA - not a mediocre participant is crippled, who is closer - hewed with stones.
                  PM is not fragmentation, but high-explosive and precisely pressure
                  actions are the most terrible nightmare of an infantryman - to kill most likely will not kill - but it will definitely leave you lame and without inheritance.
                2. 0
                  22 August 2020 07: 53
                  I saw how mines explode. That's why I say

                  I thought that a side glance at the explosions of various mines would be enough for you, that's why I posted a screen ... but it turned out that no.
                  Therefore, I propose to watch the entire video with the consequences
                  undermining:

                  1. +1
                    22 August 2020 13: 55
                    Oh well. Look not at a colorful production video filmed with professional equipment, but as it actually happens on your phone. The first OZM, the second just tm62.

              2. 0
                22 August 2020 03: 58
                I didn’t look - the Internet doesn’t pull. But the fact that on the screen it is generally tm 80 is not about that
                1. 0
                  22 August 2020 07: 20
                  Tm80 or Tm62 - a kilogram of the difference between the destructive and destructive essence does not greatly change ..., and the PMA - 50 × 50 - either cripples or kills from loss of blood, which unfortunately happened to the general.
                  1. +1
                    22 August 2020 14: 09
                    If you carefully watch the video of the incident, you will see that it was not ours who were blown up, but a Syrian who was walking alongside in 2 meters. If it was PMN, then only he would have suffered. Unfortunately, the explosion was much more powerful. Why do I think this is not unexploded ordnance? No debris, explosion shape. The svu also usually contains submunitions or is formed by the ammunition from which the svu was made.
                    The absence of fragments suggests that this is either a shellless wu or a high-explosive mine. For PMN, the explosion is too powerful, for TM - very similar.
                    But I am certainly not an expert and I can be wrong, I am guided only by my visual impressions from videos and photos
                  2. 0
                    22 August 2020 22: 53
                    Changes. Tm 80 cumulative anti-bottom.
                    Explain how PMN can do this? "A Syrian general who commanded the Mayadin Defense Forces was killed along with him. Three Russian soldiers were wounded, 4 more people were killed in addition to the general, and 3 were wounded."
                    Pmn?
            2. 0
              22 August 2020 01: 39
              Yes, not 62 that's for sure! Would rip it to shit!
              1. 0
                22 August 2020 03: 19
                Nothing is clear from the video except that there are no shrapnel, and people 10 meters away were not injured, from the photo it is clearly something more than any anti-personnel mine, in appearance it looks very similar to the undermining of TM, which we once neutralized in this way
              2. +1
                22 August 2020 03: 55
                Here is the antipersonnel

                It can be seen badly, but what I found. I myself did not shoot anything for obvious reasons - laws, so photos from publicly available sources on the Internet

                But tm 62
    20. 0
      21 August 2020 21: 18
      - If only someone else did the translation of the dialogue ... Everything was clearer.
    21. +1
      22 August 2020 01: 47
      It is strange that there was no suppression of the radio signal, it seems they were taught in Chechnya.
      Eternal memory to the general, condolences to relatives, cruel answer to the murderers!
    22. +1
      22 August 2020 02: 11
      For whom is engineering intelligence done ...
    23. +3
      22 August 2020 02: 21
      Over the years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has not lost a single colonel, let alone a general, while Russia has lost both of them in just two years.
    24. 0
      22 August 2020 06: 30
      It's a shame and stupid .. It's not a general's business - walking along the roads along the column in the field in a foreign country ... His business is to manage the troops from the headquarters or command post .. Inaccurate ...
    25. -1
      22 August 2020 09: 24
      in any case, deviation or not. negligence on the face
    26. 0
      22 August 2020 11: 29
      I don't believe in such accidents
    27. 0
      22 August 2020 13: 51
      If a platoon, company, or battalion had sniffed gunpowder, he wouldn’t go to bed. Tea was not going along the embankment on a summer evening. Schools and academies will not teach you to look under your feet and see everything around you. What can I say now? The kingdom of heaven for the warrior.
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    29. 0
      22 August 2020 21: 31
      Eternal memory to the Heroes!
    30. 0
      23 August 2020 19: 22
      When will counterintelligence be established? So many years have passed.
    31. 0
      24 August 2020 20: 42
      - Generals in the positions of army commander (Asapov) and deputy army commander (Gladkikh) go to Syria ... as advisers ... and even to the provincial level (!) ... Are there many extra generals in the Army? request

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