A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti
Russian strikes hit two hideouts used by militants in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor, Captain 1st Rank Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria said on August 19.
“During the past day, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) delivered airstrikes on two places of the deployment of militants who left the al-Tanf area [which is controlled by United States forces] and were hiding in hard-to-reach areas of the al-Bishri ridge in the Deir Ezzor governorate,” the Russian military official said.
Video footage showing what appears to be the airstrikes announced by the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria surfaced online on August 18 and 19.
Around 200 U.S. troops are usually deployed at a garrison in al-Tanf, along with hundreds of militants from a proxy group known as the Syrian Free Army.
The U.S. maintains a 55-kilometer no-fly zone around al-Tanf. However, VKS warplanes fly over the garrison on a regular basis.
The U.S. claims that it is present in al-Tanf to counter ISIS. Nevertheless, the real purpose of the garrison is to block the strategic Damascus-Baghdad highway. In addition, the garrison is reportedly being used as an outpost to collect intelligence, facilitate Israeli attacks against Syria and train militants.
On August 18, the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria reported that an American F/A-18 fighter jet “dangerously approached” a Russian warplane near al-Tanf a day earlier.
“On August 17 morning, a coalitions’ F/A-18 fighter bomber dangerously approached an An-30 plane of the Russian aerospace forces making a planned flight over Syria. The incident took place at an altitude of around 6,700 meters over the al-Tanf area in the Homs governorate,” Ignasyuk said, adding that the Russian pilot demonstrated high professionalism and took timely measures to prevent a collision.
Several similar aerial encounters were reported by he Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria during June and July, all of which took place near al-Tanf.
Tensions between the Russian military group and U.S. forces in Syria have been high since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago. Recent escalation by the U.S. could eventually lead to a dangerous incident.
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how glorious watching us proxy fighters get their as#es handed to them. respect to russia.
why russians didn’t hit u.s. bases directly ? ah i forgot. putin’s “partners” putin loves and protects his enemies, kills his own people and allies. to be honest, i don’t understand assad why on the earth he still tolerates russians in syria as they are useless. or better say, they are counterproductive. he has u.s. burglars in his country and another burglars from russia, pretending to be friends. but in fact, if russians would piss off, americans would piss off too.
because it would be a declaration of war.
besides russia was invited by the syrian government whereas the u.s. invited themselves since they think they own the world. the russians are welcomed in syria and very far from being useless, in fact they destroyed one of the american proxies known as “the islamic state” so if someone should piss off out of there it is the yankees.
these ukr, palestine and syria wars are being fought in very strange ways. even hezbollah does not attack idf air bases and planes. they hit drones, but can’t hit idf planes? they only scare them to leave? wtf? never seen a conflict where certain assets are untouchable. this not curbing attacks will lead to massive confrontation. that must be the goal. death on unimaginable scale being planned? who is running this show?
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in lebanon it is still in low intensity phase right now, perhaps they keep some surprises for the zionazis when and if they engage full on mode.
gaza is another story, they lack the ability to strike major targets so they do what they can from their hideouts with what they have.
ukraine is being fought “humanly” in a way, as an smo it is not a full blown war and again russia also has to keep the sweet stuff for major or peer adversary.
i would like to take the opportunity here to thank the russian armed forces and especially the russian aerospace forces for keeping the patrols over al-tanf and making obliterating ordinance rain on takfiri terrorists.
p.s: dear vks, please feel free to test some kab-3000 on the heads of those scumbags, thank you!
watching anglozionazi thugs get incinerated all around the globe is so good for the soul. humanity thanks mother russia for destroying this $atanic evil on all fronts. meanwhile chump and kamel’s $lumville is heating up nicely for its long overdue civil war reloaded as the demorat demons abort babies in a human sacrifice to moloch at the kike kamel konvention in shitcago.. z and lots of it!