Russian Anti-Air Missiles Likely Engaged Israeli Jets Attacking Syria’s Coast
Syria TV:
📌 Israel bombed Russia's Hmeimim airbase an hour after the arrival of an Iranian plane belonging to "Qeshm" Airlines.
📌 The Israeli strike did not target the runways or towers at Hmeimim Airbase and Latakia's civilian airport.
📌 The bombing targeted other military… pic.twitter.com/UxBU8iWHZm
— Levant 24 (@Levant_24_) October 3, 2024
- Russian Anti-Air Missiles Likely Engaged Israeli Jets Attacking Syria’s Coast
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
Israeli strikes have hit Syria for multiple straight days, with the latest being on the outskirts of Damascus, in the western part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate near Lebanon, on Thursday morning. Syrian national media says anti-air defense missiles are confronting “hostile targets”.
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But it was an overnight major attack on Syria’s coast which has for the first time brought Israel close to clashing with the Russian military. An Israeli drone as well as warplanes reportedly targeted sites in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh before daybreak. A weapons depot was apparently targeted and destroyed, which crucially was situated near the Hmeimim Air Base, the largest Russian air base in Syria.
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Chinese state media has cited a war monitor to say that “Syrian air defenses and Russian forces responded to the attack within 40 to 50 minutes.”
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