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The Russian Aerospace Forces have begun aerial patrols along the so-called Bravo Line that divides the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria -a division of the Russian Ministry of Defense- announced on January 18.
“To monitor the situation, army aviation units of the Russian Aerospace Forces have organized aerial patrols along the disengagement line separating the armed forces of Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic [the Bravo Line],” Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit said.
Israel occupied most of the Golan Heights during the war of 1967 and annexed the strategic territory in violation of international laws later in 1981.
The aerial patrols are the latest in a series of measures the Russian military group in Syria began to take after the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian Gaza Strip -which led to an increase in Israeli attacks on Syria- to de-escalate tensions on the Golan Heights front.
Earlier this month, the Russian Military Police established at least two new observation posts along the Bravo Line. Later, video footage surfaced online showing Russian attack helicopters patrolling the front.
Russia appears to be worried that Israel, frustrated by its inability to score a decisive win against the Hamas Movement in Gaza, may further escalate against Syria.
These worries are legitimate, especially considering Israel’s history of launching attacks against Iran and its allies inside Syria.
Just two days after the Russian Center for Reconciliation announced the beginning of aerial patrols along the Bravo Line, Israel killed a senior intelligence commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps along with four other officers of the guards in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The airstrike that killed the Iranian officers was launched from the direction of the Golan Heights.
While recent Russian steps will not likely put an end to Israeli attacks on Syria, which has been ongoing for over a decade, they will certainly help prevent a serious escalation, like a ground invasion by Israel.
more effective to shoot down one or two zionist planes. that would be a real deterrent!
russia observes international law, will not shooty down planes in international arospace, that is the main reason they are a trusted and true partner to the world
patrolling with attack helicopters sounds more like they want to prevent any infiltration into israel than prevent attacks by israel. a plane which fires a missile into syria becomes a legitimate target regardless of whose air space its in. by the way, where exactly is your imaginary “international air space” between syria and israel? maybe you can also explain why russia hasn’t bombed the isis strongholds near us occupied eastern syria? is that perhaps international land space?
why is the us even in the region? at least russia was invited by the government, the us is simply stealing oil and propping up their proxy isis.
to litle to late !!! i think russia is doing this to prevent hesbolach to enter the golan and shase the illegal entity israhell out.
unfortunately this scenario looks increasingly likely. rus has been letting zio-nzis strike at will throuout the false alliance with syr. is this incompetence, sub-standard weapons (as irn maintains) or a deliberate blind eye to the six pointed star?
agree. it’s time that russia shits or get off the pot.
israel and russia agreed a long time ago to avoid each other to avoid conflict. both have their own interests in the area. the area is really small and fighters can hit each other by accident. there was certainly some information about the attack in russia in advance. what that means, i can’t say. in any case, israel does not want to face russia in a war. especially after ukraine, which showed the effectiveness of air defense.
given that russia – and most of the rest of the world – haven’t condemned the israeli genocide, their hands may not be as bloody as the west’s, but they are guilty of failing to prevent genocide. anyone who thinks putin, xi, modi … are the antidote to netanyahu, biden, sunak … needs to think again.
carlin’s, “it’s a big club.” probably applies on a wider scale than he had in mind.
russian air defenses went passive. aa operators went drinking voda while on the job
russian s-400 passive soviet tech cannot detect zionist warplanes !!
bunker shlomo is using my name again. i detest everything about these chosenite welfare warfare demons and pray to see the khazar abomination reduced to rubble like the evil these demons have unleashed on innocent civilians in gaza. god bless the palestinian resistance and all their friends destroying these idf diaper head thugs.
for that matter we all know that that isn’t you.
russia always one day too late and always a failure. they even failed on their blitzkreig rush to kiev miserably.
what “blitzkrieg rush to kiev”? the initial russian smo achieved its objective of bringing keiv to the negotiating table. only boris johnson’s trip to ukraine to explain to zelensky that peace was not an option scuttled a diplomatic solution. slava bandera? or are you just ensuring you won’t be added to the myrotvorets list?
we now amerikan bitch—no sovereignty or self respect
‘a serious escalation, like a ground invasion by israel.’
this is a joke, right? isr ground forces have trouble enough invading mosques, churches, schools and hospitals in gaza. the idf is f***ing useless as an army, and without weapons and help from us-nato (and rus?) would have been overrun years ago.
rus needs to stop fence sitting.
hi everyone, i was out drinking between 1939 and 1945, sorry my jewish subjects, i forgot all about you
you did not miss anything, a couple thousand were killed in something they called the holocaust while 25 million russians lost their lives saving the rest of the jews. fluffed up world, ain’t it…..
one question, did putin already recognized that israel is his enemy or he didn’t ? maybe he needs some 10 more years to do so as it took him 10 years to recognize that the west europe and america are not “partners” and that they make fun of him and his (minsk) agreements. please wake me up when russia downs the first israeli jet because at this time only iran is doing something reasonable and russia only holds stalemate.
if they anoy israel they will shoot them down like the turks did. and russia will du nothing about it. not cause they can’t but for some reason do not want.
as long as putin is president he will remain nato blessing untill russia partially collapse or whole by suprise enemy attack of nato.
if russia wants to punish nato for the shelling of civilians in donetsk all it has to is shoot down israeli planes violating the sovereign airspaces of syria and lebanon.
wonder will this gesture that the russians are providing syria will useful this time considering how the russians hyped up for years the s300 deployment to syria, just for it to finally arrive and only be used to guard russian bases and not the syrian people!
lock and load.
the jewish bolsheviks slaughtered tens of millions of russian people during the jewish bolshevik takeover of russia. i think the russians are still trembling in fear about confronting the jewish supremacist parasites.
syria air defense systems always wait until a missile is coming to be activated. it looks like syria is not allowed to shut down israel planes. russia should stop protecting israel planes.
i really like russia and putin, but i will not forget that putin hushed lavrov and apologised in lavrov’s name to israel and nethanyahu …do we really need more to this to understand it?!