A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti
Syrian and Russian strikes have killed more than 630 terrorists in the northwestern region of Greater Idlib since the October 5 drone attack on the Military Academy near the central city of Homs, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, announced on November 7.
The attack on the Military Academy claimed the lives of 89 service members and civilians, who were there to attend the graduation ceremony, and left more than 277 other wounded. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the drone attack.
However, evidence indicates that al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of Greater Idlib, or one of its allies was responsible.
Speaking during a press conference in the Syrian capital, Damascus, alongside the director of the Political Department of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Major General Hassan Suleiman, Kulit said that joint Syrian-Russian retaliatory operations included more than 230 airstrikes by the Russian air force and more than 900 artillery missions by the joint forces on terrorists’ positions in Greater Idlib.
Sulemian noted that the targeted positions belonged to HTS, the Turkistan Islamic Party and other terrorist groups in the region.
The operations killed more than 630 “terrorists,” including 34 leaders and 15 foreign experts, and injured 450 others, Kulit said.
According to the Russian military official, 1,125 targets of the terrorists, including observation sites, headquarters, tunnels, underground weapon depots, 153 vehicles and other equipment, were destroyed.
“The joint operations between Russian forces and the SAA reduced the combat capabilities of terrorist groups, dispersed their leaders, damaged their morale and forced them to stop their terrorist attacks,” Kulit said.
From his side, Sulemian vowed that “any attack launched by the terrorist groups will receive a devastating and immediate response at any time or place.”
During the press conference, a video with footage from the attack on the Military Academy and others from retaliatory strikes on Greater Idlib was presented.
It’s worth noting that more Syrian and Russian strikes hit Greater Idlib as the conference was being held and in the hours that followed. In a later statement, Kulit said that the strikes were carried out in response to deadly attacks on SAA troops, adding that an underground shelter was hit.
Despite the escalation of HTS and its allies, the ceasefire in Greater Idlib, which was brokered by Russia and Turkey more than three years ago, is still holding up. The SAA and its allies will not likely resume ground operations in the region as this could lead to a confrontation with Turkey, who maintains thousands of troops there.
destroying al ciaduh thugs in syria has to remain among russia’s top priorities especially now that the pu$$ oozing beast of zion is gorging itself on the children of palestine. one day and soon syria, and the rest of the arab world will settle the score with the collapsing anglozionazi empire of filth and its evil viper nested in palestine.
let us not forget: russia said ☎️ no to syria regime change, they said no to greater israel imperial expansionism ☎️ no to soros and other trojan-horse ngo’s in russia ☎️ no to anti ethical propaganda including degenerate lgtbq propaganda and education for kids ☎️ no to gmo grain and monsanto
today russia is the interfaith epicenter of the world and most christian nation on earth. adhering to the principal of equal respect. outlawing religious perversion, persecution, and violence. ☪️✝️✡️
‼️ all against the wishes of the west and their puppet masters ‼️
principle* but otherwise good
russia knows how to kick as in syria, but are completely pathetic in defending their own country against ukrainian missile strikes and even more pathetic in defeating ukrainian troops on the battlefield.
in my usa colony we so happy 35% require mental health treatment
let us not forget: russia said ☎️ no to syria regime change, they said no to greater israel imperial expansionism ☎️ no to soros and other trojan-horse ngo’s in russia ☎️ no to anti ethical propaganda including degenerate lgtbq propaganda and education for kids ☎️ no to gmo grain and monsanto
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the real culprids must be exterminated !!! the yankee occupation army stealing oil, the turky occupation army stealing fertile ground, the parasite occupation off palestine. russia has to get some balls and go for 100% at the end they will com afther russia !!! look at the mediterranean, they are preparing for invasion. never ever trust a yankee or a jew !!!
well this is all very well responding to those terrorists but the only way to end this is a massive ground invasion of idlib, that’s the bottom line period.
hellyeah. israel’s sunni-wakhabi slaves in syria are getting slaughtered like the filthy animals they are and there’s nothing that aipac, and its treasonous, isreal-first puppets in the us government and in the us military can do about it. soon al-assad will take all of idlib and expel the pkk-ypg-sdf secessionist kurdish terrorists from eastern syria. assad defeated zionists.
mali by ich obnoviť a mali by jasne dať na vedomie turecku na čej strane chce stáť!!! hra sa skončila. mali by sa turci zamerať na darebákov z usa, ktorí podporujú teroristov z kurdskej menšiny!!!
clean them out completely and forever. and the turks with them. the turks are running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. they are playing russia against nato. stuff them.