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The bombs have been used to devastating effect in the 10-year Syrian civil war (pictured), with evidence suggesting that Bashar al-Assad's forces using them to kill thousands of civilians.
40,000 Syrian fighters have reportedly signed up to fight alongside the Russian forces in Ukraine according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The shadowy Private Military Company (PMC) - which has been linked to a string of killings, rapes and war crimes around the world - is known as Putin 's private army.
The next chapter of the war in Ukraine could see Russia bringing in greater numbers of battle-hardened fighters from Syria, observers say
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