It has been relatively quiet in eastern Ukraine recently. So some pro-Russian online groups organized to dispatch volunteers to fight alongside separatists in Donbas may be trying to use the lull to open a new front in Syria, where Moscow has ramped up military support for President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian volunteers for Syria are recruited – and trolled – online
A picture taken on Oct. 3, 2015 shows a Russian army pilot leaving the cockpit of a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft at the Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian province of Latakia.
