A Russian Su-24 takes off on a combat mission at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. IMAGE: AP PHOTO/VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
On September 9, footage documenting some of the recent Russian airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib surfaced online.
Two waves of Russian airstrikes hit Greater Idlib on September 8. The airstrikes targeted positions and personnel of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the region. The targets, which included a large training camp of the terrorist group, were all located in the western Idlib countryside.
The newly-released footage shows a series of airstrikes on a drone unit of HTS. The airstrikes destroyed several dozen makeshift suicide drones and wiped out the militants who attempted to launch them.
According to the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, the airstrikes killed more than 120 militants of HTS. One of the slain militants was reportedly former leader of the Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad, Sirajuddin Mukhtarov.
The Russian airstrikes were a response to recent ceasefire violations by HTS and its allies. Over, the past week, the militants launched several indirect fire attacks from Greater Idlib. Four Syrian soldiers were killed and four others were wounded as a result of these attacks.
The ceasefire in Greater Idlib, which was brokered by Russia and Turkey more than two years ago, is still holding up. However, the situation in the region remains far from being stable. Maintaining pressure on HTS and its allies is critical to prevent a new serious confrontation in the region.
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Those Russian planes should wipe out Nato in Ukrainian discuise and not some arabs who will turn their back on them the moment they feel like do no longer needing them.
The Russians should now supply the Syrian government of whatever weapons they need to drive away any unwelcomed and hostile entities dwelling within its territory as well as sophisticated air defence system to deter the constant IDF deadly raids. A reciprocal move identical to what’s Washington doing with AFU.
Parhetic russian leadership. Putin and shoigu should rot in hell. For setting up their own soldiers to die and the innocent Ukrainian villagers who supported them. Lost tonnes of respect for Russians, such primitive low iq brutes not too far off frm a caveman. Anglos on the other hand high iq people
Obviously the Kremlin isn’t to be trusted or relied upon, they love money more then their people. It has been this way for a long time.
That’s not what the Russian people think and it’s not what the majority of Ukrainian people think either. Those Ukrainian’s living in the Donbas cannot wait for their turn to be liberated. This will be so for the rest of the Ukraine. Cocaine and nato can only sustain the Kiev puppet for so long.
The Kiev regime is now murdering Ukrainian politicians, and their girlfriends. Remember Nicolae Ceaușescu? His people got fed up with him too.
NATO pigs should rot in hell for using Ukrainians as slaves to fight their war against Russia.
Russia is saving Ukrainians from the ugly satanic worshiper, how many civilians NATO killed in Iraq? Compare that to the Ukraine war clown. It is not even funny anymore.
Anglos? You fuking think it is only “Anglos” in UA pulling the strings.
Kikes Siiiiir.
At this point in time I don’t even know why Russia is bothering. They are obviously a regional power not up to confronting anyone.
I suppose getting those drones to return to base is now going to be a bit pointless. Would they drop from the sky as soon as bits of its operator attained a higher attitude than the drone itself, or would it go into a holding pattern until it ran out of battery power? Questions, questions.
Another ones byte the dust. Give them hell.
well I have yet to see a similar video from Ukraine? Not one single video of an air strike on UAF armor. Yet weekly there are these videos? The VKS is by far the biggest failure of the Russian armed forces. With no air force the UAF should not be able to amass 10,000 troops in a single area for an attack. Yet they drive and operate with no fear from the sky? Pitch up rocket attacks are not air strikes! Where is the Russian air force? Oh ya Syria.
Cope more.