As Russian expands its military presence in Syria, a report was published on Saturday in Russian newspaper Gazeta.
ru examining the transfer of weapons, equipment, and manpower from the Russian port city of Novorossiysk to Al Assad base in Syria, and quoting several soldiers who expressed their desire to stay away from the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
The paper interviewed a group of soldiers, mainly non commissioned troops, who refused to deploy to Syria due to their fear of ISIS.
They were due to be shipped off on September 17, but 10 days later they were told they would be deployed to a hot region with a very different climate than what they were used to, and that there would be poisonous animals at the new place, but the specific region was not named.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with President Putin on Monday in order to discuss the strategic coordination between the two countries in the wake of the Russian buildup.