The Russian MoD and the Ministry for Emergencies are to send mobile hospitals to Syria

Interfax (In Russian) ^ | 11/29/2016

[Freelance Warrior]

The Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered the MoD and the Ministry for Emergencies to send mobile hospitals to Syria to provide medical service to the locals. The press learned it from the President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. According to his words, the term was set as "in shortest possible time".

He also said that the MoD was to send a medical team with a multi-functional hospital for 100 beds with a paediatric therapy ward. The hospital’s capacity for treating outpatients is 420 persons per day. The Ministry for Emergencies’ mobile facility has 50 beds and outpatient capacity of 200 persons.

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It looks as though Russia is using Syria as full-scale training exercise for all branch of forces, except massive number of ground troops.

[Freelance Warrior]

It looks as though Russia is using Syria as full-scale training exercise for all branch of forces, except massive number of ground troops.

Sure. Squeezing any kind of gain from a given situation is a professional level behaviour.