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MOSCOW, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Media reports about the death of a Russian serviceman in Syria are not true and Russian troops in Syria have suffered no losses recently, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
"The information that a Russian serviceman was killed in Syria on Aug. 11 disseminated by some media is not true. The Russian military contingent in the Syrian Arab Republic suffered no losses in this period of time," the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, media reported that a 31-year-old Russian serviceman was buried in the Russian city of Orenburg, about 1,500 km southeast of Moscow. The serviceman reportedly died on Aug. 11 when a roadside bomb hit a vehicle in a military convoy.
