Russia officially confirmed the death of five of its citizens in Syria, but the Foreign Ministry assures them that they are not military, but those who entered the conflict zone illegally.

Published in the world media data on the deaths of hundreds of Russians and continue to be called misinformation, because the battalion of a private Russian military company "Wagner", who fought in Ukraine, and now in Syria, Moscow does not recognize, the TSN.

In the unofficial list of the dead there is a Kharkov citizen Vladimir Vinogradenko, better known by the nickname "Apostle".

His mother lives in Kharkov, which can not answer the question of whether her son is alive, because he disappeared several years ago and since then they have not heard about him at home.

"I do not know where he is," says an elderly woman..