Media sources revealed the rank and work of the Russian dead, in a clear indication that the Russian story about killing a Russian soldier in an explosion in the countryside of Homs is false.

The NGS website said that the Russian soldier who was killed in the countryside of Homs was Lieutenant-Colonel Alexei Schneider, in his mid-fifties, who was on his last mission in Syria.

The website indicated that the officer hails from the "Novosibirsk" region, and was serving in one of the military units in the village of "Sergevka" of the "Primorsky region", before he was sent to Syria.

Two days ago, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that one of its soldiers had been killed in an explosion targeting an armored vehicle of the Russian military police in the countryside of Homs, while it was carrying out a reconnaissance mission for humanitarian purposes, as it claimed.

It is noteworthy that about 112 Russian soldiers have died in Syria, since the Russian occupier entered the country militarily, along with the regime forces in September 2015, according to previous statements by the first deputy chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, Andrei Krasov.