ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.
F-35 stealth fighter jets of the United States-led coalition continue to harass Russian warplanes over Syria, causing escalation and creating conditions for aerial incidents.
Counter Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, announced during a briefing on August 25 that two F-35s of the coalition made a dangerous approach towards Su-35 fighter jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces over the war-torn country.
“At 9:32 a.m. on August 25, a pair of the coalition’s F-35 fighter jets dangerously approached a Russian Su-35 plane making a planned flight along Syria’s southern border at an altitude of about 6,500 meters in the al-Tanf area,” the commander said.
Kulit added that the Russian pilot demonstrated high professionalism and took timely measures to prevent a collision with coalition warplanes.
The commander revealed during the same briefing that coalition fighter jets and drones violated Syrian airspace over the southeastern areas of al-Tanf, across which international air routes run, 17 times over the past day.
He also noted that the coalition’s drones violated deconfliction protocols 11 times during the same day by carrying out flights over Syria without coordinating with the Russian military group in the country.
Tensions between the U.S.-led coalition and the Russian military group in Syria have been mounting for the last two months.
Just a day earlier, the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria reported an incident during which an F-16 fighter jet of the coalition made a dangerous pass near a Russian Su-35 over al-Tanf.
The U.S.-led coalition maintains a garrison in al-Tanf with a 55-kilometer no-fly zone that was not authorized by the United Nations or approved by the Syrian government. The coalition also operates without any authorization over the northeastern governorates of Deir Ezzor and al-Hasakah, where it maintains a network of bases at key oil and gas fields.
Washington claims that its troops and allies are present in Syria to counter ISIS. However, the main task of the coalition appears to be to challenge the legitimacy of the Syrian government and provoked its allies, whether it is the Russian military or Iranian-backed forces.
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send killer drones in the sky to collide whit the yankee intruders !!! put the gloves off, they have no right to be in syria !!!
maybe after nato business in ukraine is finished
so shoot the bastards down and destroy the illegal us bases in syria.
gen milley admits the plan is to partition syria and install a puppet regime as usual.
russia has been quietly (via its inaction among other non-events) assisting the slow annexing of northern syria by turkey and the us. better that syria and iran (and saudi eventually, but no one can trust mbs yet) join up, kick the criminal interlopers out and take back their crops and oil; then face down israel.
let us blame gorbachev for leaving russia so weakened and thank mr.putin for pulling russia out of the hands of the globalists to someday have the strength to bring justice in syria
i sincerely hope that you are being ironic, as one can never tell on sf at times.
not ironic boris yeltsin left the globalists a surprise as soviet assets were being privatized and ngo s moved in to bring russia into the puppet empire mr. putin the nationalist stepped in .. ukraine is about the failure of the globalist to acquire russia at that time .
i think he is a globalist at heart. the ukraine mess stems from rus’s failure to respond effectively to events pre-2014, then putin’s policy of placating eu/usa despite 14,000 deaths from nazi aggression over 8 years. until putin punches effectively and fearlessly against usa, remember he has to placate his oligarchs, then rus are a liability to syria. he’s still selling oil to those providing weapons to ukraine, as he was (and maybe still is) to ukraine itself, among other things…
su-35 sensors like rwr khibiny, radar system irbis and ols collecting good intel on f-35 radar/heat signatures :)
je čas im poslať jednu tú ich preslávenú f35 dolu. a to čím skôr!!! potom stiahnu chvost debili z usa!!! lebo to bude poriadne potupa. kupcom sa začnú rozsvecovať červené kontrolky. začnú uvažovať čo to vlastne od tých debilov z usa chcú nakúpiť.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvkf1pmx2y
hahaha great stuff, usa is showing their technology so russia can test counter measures and develop more secret high tech. this area has been an excellent training ground for years now and that is why putin is winning in donbass. i thank russia for defending christian areas in syria and will always support them and remember the burning of the compound in waco.