Tag: Russian Defense Ministry

"Russia provided the Iranian military with the opportunity to use its military airfield in the province of Latakia."

Moscow, Tehran and Ankara are the three guarantor states at the Astana talks on Syria.

The plane was diverted to the Russian airbase in Khmeimim, south-east of the city of Latakia, some 250 miles from Damascus by road.

“Rebels tried to attack Khmeimim Air Base with drones on January 19. The air defenses in the base destroyed the targets. No damage was caused.”

A unit of the Russian military police has arrived in the Syrian town of Kobani to patrol the territory in cooperation with Turkey.

"At present, Russian advisers are preparing Syrian military personnel for combat work on these modern air defense systems."

The missile systems are shown being unloaded from the An-124-100 Ruslan strategic airlift aircraft at the Hmeymim air base in Syria.

The Russians believe the Israeli Air Force is to blame for the crash of Russia’s Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft in Syria on September 17.

"It is not in Israel’s interest to add a serious country such as Russia to the list of its opponents."

Russia is enforcing a no fly zone and upgrading military equipment in Syria following the downing of the Ilyushin-20.

So now the Russians are at least on the record that something bad enough had taken place in Douma to justify their humanitarian intervention.

The Russians accuse Washington, Paris and Berlin that their announcement of investing millions of dollars in the restoration of Raqqa is, in reality, an attempt "to hide evidence of the barbarian bombing."

This ISIS counter attack follows dozens of raids by Russian and US-led coalition warplanes on the areas controlled by ISIS in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor city.

One of the reasons the Russians are being so careful with their announcement, may have to do with past announcements made by the US Army that they had killed the ISIS leader – which culminated in al-Baghdadi releasing videos saying news of his demise had been premature.

Russian senator Vikor Ozerov told Interfax that 'there would be hell to pay” should the recording prove to be authentic.'

The White House has been watching helplessly as Putin suspended the treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.

The bombers destroyed five large armament depots, three command posts and militants’ training camps used by terrorists for operations in Aleppo.