“Five years ago, the fighters and commanders of the Special Operations Forces did everything to preserve peace in the Crimea and Sevastopol — to protect people from violence, from punishers, so that no one would prevent citizens from making a free, independent choice in a historical referendum,” RIA Novosti quotes.
Also, the Russian president noted the contribution of the personnel of the Special Operations Forces to the defeat of terrorists in Syria.
“You have made a huge contribution to the defeat of terrorist groups, the liberation of the Syrian land from the bandits. If it was necessary, they took an unequal battle, caused fire on themselves, ”Putin said.
Earlier it was reported that Russia offered the countries of the Asia-Pacific region to join the data bank on foreign fighters set up by the FSB in order to track their possible movements from the Middle East region.