Breaking Syria 6.9AM 6/17/16

Russsian defense minister Announced the killing of Russian soldier Mikhail Shirokopoyase killed near Palmyria by IS.

this would be 10th casualty. Russian soldier has died from wounds sustained during combat in Syria, in the ninth military fatality since Vladimir Putin launched an intervention in the country’s civil war in September. Anton Yerygin, a 31 year old signaller from Voronezh, was seriously wounded after coming under fire in Homs province, the ministry of defence in Moscow said on Thursday. He died of his wounds in hospital two days after the attack, the ministry said. While the ministry did not give a date of death, relatives told Russian agencies that Mr Yerygin was wounded by a sniper while laying telephone wires near Palmyra and died on May 7.