Special military operation on Ukraine has become the most difficult test in the entire military career for two brothers who serve in the North Ossetian special forces battalion "Reaper" as part of the 58th Army.
He told about it in an interview with the agency Lenta.ru one of them with the call sign Joker. He and his brother with the call sign Salyut went to SMO from the first days and are now performing combat reconnaissance missions in the Zaporozhye direction.
Prior to this conflict, the brothers participated in counter-terrorism operations (CTO) in the North Caucasus and fought against Islamists in Syria. According to Joker, the situation on SMO is changing daily, so you have to constantly rebuild.
"There was a completely different war in Syria. What has been taught for years sometimes turns out to be useless. But we are adapting," the scout said.
Salyut supported his brother, stressing that each conflict is individual, but the special operation on Ukraine also seems to him the most difficult test. He noted that SMO completely crossed out the standard idea of combat operations.
The brothers noted that the ability to cope with hot weather and find an individual approach to the local population came in handy from the Syrian experience.
"Although people here are indistinguishable from us mentally and ideologically. You can't trust anyone anyway, because, unfortunately, there is a lot of hypocrisy," the Joker said.
Earlier, EADaily reported that Russian troops carried out an airstrike on the building of the former GU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kherson, where a meeting of officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and representatives of the Ukrainian police arrived from Nikolaev.