Contents tagged with Syria
-
Media: Russians came under fire during US strike against Assad's partners in Syria
Citing the publication Tasnim, the Iranian news agency Fars has reported that three militants affiliated with the group Hezbollah, as well as several militiamen and ‘several Russian military advisers’, were killed on Wednesday as a result of a strike by the coalition forces against supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad the vicinity of the Hasham gas field in Deir ez-Zor province.
The report discusses the attack by Assad supporters, whom the Pentagon earlier claimed approached the zone …
-
Russia calls US strikes on Assad partners a crime
The strike conducted by coalition forces led by the United States on the forces of Bashar al-Assad’s supporters in the province of Deir ez Zor is a crime, stated Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya, RIA Novosti reported.
The diplomat noted that despite the fact that Washington declares that its goal in Syria is to fight terrorists, the real actions of the United States appear different. “They keep saying that they are fighting international terrorism, but we see that …
-
Bridge built by Russian military in Syria washed away
A Russian-built bridge across the Euphrates in Syria was destroyed due to rising water levels in the river, according to RIA Novosti.
On September 23 last year, construction on a 212-meter automobile bridge was begun by the Russian military in the suburb of Deir-ez-Zor. A week later, the construction was handed over to Syria. It was intended to be used for the transfer of military equipment and personnel to the eastern shore of the Euphrates.
On January 6, 2018, the water level and the speed …
-
Washington uncertain if Russians were involved in attack on US partners in Syria
The White House does not know if Russian citizens were involved in the attack on the headquarters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on February 7, Donald Trump’s deputy press secretary Raj Shah told reporters at a press conference.
One of the reporters was interested to know whether Trump had been notified about the attack which took place in the region of the Khasham settlement, and whether there is “any information on Russian representatives’ involvement in this”.“The …
-
Kremlin confirms that Su-25 was shot down with Russian air defense system in Syria
Major Roman Filipov’s Su-25 assault jet was shot down in Syria with a missile from a Russian Igla man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS), said Franz Klintsevich, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Defense and Security Committee.
“According to unofficial information, it was an ‘Igla’,” Klintsevich said. According to him, serious work is being done to clarify all the circumstances, especially who supplied the MANPADS.
On February 3, militants shot down a Russian Su-25 SM assault jet …
-
Ukrainian volunteers spent 2 years collecting information on salaries paid to Russian soldiers in Donbas and Syria
Over the course of two years, Ukrainian volunteers have exploited a vulnerability in the Russian Defense Ministry’s website to collect classified information on the salaries paid to Russian soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine and in Syria, as reported on Facebook by Sean Brian Townsend, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance.
According to him, the Russian news outlet Fontanka.ru found a hole in the Russian Defense Ministry’s website, which Ukrainian volunteers had been using to …
-
Body of Su-25 pilot killed in Syria transferred to Russia
The body of the Russian pilot Roman Filipov, who was shot down in Syria, was handed over to Russia “through Turkish mediation” by one of the “revolutionary groups”, reported the Syrian newspaper Enab Baladias with reference to a statement made by militants from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Al-Nusra Front). The pilot’s body was “stolen” by one of the rebel groups, stated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s. The story was relayed by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the jihadists’ …
-
Russian Defense Ministry accuses online publication Fontanka of disclosing information on pilot killed in Syria
The Russian Ministry of Defense has criticized an article by the online news outlet Fontanka which it claims disclosed the personal details of the Su-25 assault jet pilot who was shot down in Syria on February 3. The Defense Ministry considers this a “violation of the elementary concepts of decency and the ethics of journalist activity”.
“We are convinced that the law enforcement organs will give their assessment of what happened in accordance with Russian legislation,” RBC reported, citing …
-
Germany concerned about possible chemical attack in Syria
The German government expressed concern about reports of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, not far from the capital of Damascus and the northern province of Idlib. “If it turns out that the Syrian army once again resorted to the use of chemical weapons, this horrible act would be a flagrant violation of the moral and legal obligations not to use them,” said the German Foreign Ministry in a press release on February 5.
Earlier it became known that the Syrian military might have …
-
Russia finds Ukrainian footprints in the crash of Su-25 shot down in Syria
Russian senator Igor Morozov has claimed that the surface-to-air missile system (SAM) that shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in Syria may have reached the rebels through contraband channels from the military arsenal in the Ukrainian city of Kalynivka, located in the Vinnytsia Oblast, RIA Novosti reported.
Morozov suggested that the Ukrainian SAM came to Syria after a large-scale fire at the ammunition depots in Kalynivka.
In the fall, the military warehouse in Kalynivka, Ukraine …