Russian and American troops are fighting in Syria on different sides of the barricade, in fact with each other. This was publicly told by the head of the White House, Donald Trump. "We had a very tough fight in Syria recently, a month ago, between our troops and Russian troops," the US president said at a joint news conference in Florida with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. - It's very sad. Many people died in this battle, "- acknowledged Trump. Information that the Pentagon struck on Russian soldiers in Syria, slipped in the media in the first decade of February. In particular, Bloomberg reported about a hundred dead Russians in the Battle of Deir ez Zorah. However, the head of the US military department, James Mattis, categorically denied this information, and the Russian Foreign Ministry specified that as a result of the attack by the coalition led by the United States on pro-government forces in Syria there are dead citizens of Russia and other CIS countries,.

It is not known whether Trump meant the incident or in Syria there was another clash between the military of the Russian Federation and the United States. In any case, the US president stressed that he regrets the fight. But he immediately announced that he intends to continue to act as rigidly as possible when it comes to Russia. However, experts generally are inclined to doubt that Trump's words should be considered seriously. Especially after his statement that all the American Tomahawks hit the target on April 14, while objective control data show that of the 100 missiles 70 were shot down by Syrian air defense. Now the same story, says expert of the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, political scientist-American Konstantin Blokhin. "Our army is afraid and respected. Therefore, there are such statements that allegedly there were once battles with the Russians. But there is no evidence. They just need to demonstrate once again the image that is formed by Hollywood, that the US is Rambo, "commented the political scientist in an interview with RT.