Spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, affirmed on Sunday that Al-Jazeera reports on dead Russian servicemen in Syria are false.

“The reports of Qatar’s Al Jazeera’s television channel about death of Russian military in Syria are another falsifying,” he said.

“All the Russian military, who are in the Syrian Arab Republic, are alive, healthy and continue carrying out assigned tasks,” the general added.

Russia has been militarily involved in the Syrian War since they began airstrikes in September 2015.