Illustrative image. Source: the Israeli Air Force.
Four Russian civilian specialists were reportedly wounded early on July 2 when Israel launched a new attack against Syria.
The Syrian Arab News Agency, quoting a military source, said that Israeli warplanes fired missiles from the direction of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, at positions located in the outskirts of the city of Homs. Syrian air defenses intercepted some of the missiles. The initial strikes resulted only in material damage, the official news agency said.
An anti-aircraft missile launched from Syrian territory towards Israel during the strikes exploded mid air over Israel, according to a spokesman for the Israeli military. There were no casualties, he said. Videos from Israel showed the remains of a 5V21 missile from a Soviet-made S-200 long-range air defense system.
The spokesman, Avichay Adraee, said later that the military launched strikes against the Syrian air defense base that fired the missile as well as other targets.
The base in question is located near the town of al-Qadmus in the northern countryside of Tartus. The Russian civilian specialists were reportedly wounded nearby.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has not commented yet on the reports of Russian casualties, nor has the Syrian or Israeli governments.
If the reports are confirmed, this would be the first time an Israel attack on Syria has directly caused Russian casualties since the beginning of Russian operations in the country.
In 2018, Syrian air defense shot down a Russian Il-20 intelligence aircraft by mistake while responding to an Israeli attack on the coast. Back then, Russia blamed Israel for the friendly fire incident, which killed 15 Russian service members, and responded by supplying Syria with a number of S-300 long-range air defense systems.
During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of attacks against the country. Most of the strikes targeted positions of the Syrian military as well as positions of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliates, like Lebanese Hezbollah.
The attacks were a part of an Israeli covert military campaign, known as “the war between wars,” which is meant to prevent Iran from establishing a lasting presence in Syria.
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next time israel wound russian specialists we will give assad the s-300 next time israel do it. next time.
tratior mafia putin is a common israeli puppet. the war in ukraine lasts almost 18 months, russia holds 20% of ukraine, just like in the very begging and russian intevention in syria lasts almost 8 fuckiin years, with 30% of syria under usa control.
france is finished. european countries like france cling to their pasts because they have no future.
no one can argue with the facts. are really serious supposed to believe that the us could not be forced out of syria? i have suspected for a long time that russia feeds israel targeting information. i guess in this case their own servicemen were sacrificed once again.
and that s300 has done nothing but gather dust. russia will do nothing but bend over for their hebrew masters
why waste the munitions? israel hasn’t struck anything vital yet. the s20p are proving effective for what they are doing none the less. the s300 is there to remind israel if it over steps that they will be struck down. remember, the israelis reported that their “invisible” f35 has been detected by the same systems used by the s200 on several occasions. the s300 will be able to do more.
its in the intel chip a back door
comment too long. what the fuck sf. three lines is too long?
otázkou je čo z tým rf mieni robiť? myslím, že už bolo dosť provokácii zo strany izraela.
jews have and will continue to slaughtered russian as the slaughterer palestinians with impunity, and putain whom is a jewish bitch will never ever do anything against the kosher nostra, since they run russia and wants slavs to kill each others so they get their khazaria witch means ukraina and crimea, never, never trust russian gov. and the wacking of 200 wagners in syria should tell everything you need to know
and now nuke nazi tel aviv!
putin is to cowardly for such an act.
israel injured russians maybe because agent prigozhin’s cover was blown by russia?
does the apartheid regime of the chosen ‘race’ make mistakes? i don’t think so. russian’s or no russian’s, the apartheid regime will do what they want. if russian forces get in the way of their hatred for others then so be it.
joo proably think he got barbidolls and wirginis anvi over that intel data collection dubbel cross
china needs to pickup some slack here. you shake hands with syria, yet do nothing to help protect them. russia is busy with ukraine, help out!
china is frightened of its own shadow. won’t deploy its forces anywhere. syria would have been a perfect spot to send a small detachment to get some kind of combat experience.
it’s really amazing how the ” violators of international law are the same people demanding the world obeys their dictates ” i’m so glad ” the kings of the east are creating a new,new world order”.
why is it that, every time the russians destroy terrorist targets in idlib and latakia, israel strikes syria? is it possible that israel supports the terrorists? i’m shocked.
now putin will beg to his zio masters not to bomb russia!!
seems the plan to keep russia busy in ukraine to be able to do what they want in syria is working as intended. agent ze will get a medal from isreal after all is set and done. he is their greatest hero since lenin.