The Norwegian news portal AldriMer reported on 11 May about a group of far-Right Scandinavians who fought under Russian command for the pro-regime coalition in Syria.
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The interview on Skandinavisk Frihet’s website describes the Skandinaviska Förbundet fighter in glowing terms as a “brave warrior” who helped defeat the Islamic State (IS). He says he arrived as the Russians turned the tide in favour of Bashar al-Asad’s regime, and claims to have fought directly against IS’s troops in a detachment that was “temporarily incorporated with the Russian military forces”. “Russia broke the back of IS in Syria”, the fighter says excitedly, “and we were there [with them], side-by-side”.
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The fighter tells Skandinavisk Frihet that “the unit, or more accurately the section I was part of, was named , ‘Þorbrandr’ (Thorbrand)”. Thorbrand was an infantry unit in effect, he says, but it had access to heavy weapons, including tanks. Thorbrand was commanded by a Norwegian named “Norrmann”; there were other people from Norway, plus Sweden and Iceland, in the unit. The group was most active in the first three months he was there, using drones to scout the positions of the IS jihadists and then attacking, often at night. Asked about a memorable incident, the fighter recounts to Skandinavisk Frihet going behind enemy lines one night into an IS camp of about fifty jihadists, calling in Russian artillery fire, and then ensuring no IS members were able to leave. Activity slowed over the summer, he says, and Thorbrand engaged in things like laying mines to hinder IS’s freedom of movement.