Lebanese news services reported another attempt of militants to attack Russian air base "Hmeymim" in the Syrian Latakia. So, AMN portal informs, that several drones, Curb explosive devices, They were sent to the northeastern perimeter of the Russian base in Syria videoconferencing.
stated, that drones could not hit any objects on the Russian air base.
He sounded the alarm siren, and calculations of air defense systems, located on the "Hmeymime", We proceeded to neutralize the threat of. According to some reports, several drones were destroyed by anti-aircraft missile and gun "Carapace" complex.
According to Lebanese media, UAVs have been directed towards the area of Hmeymima Jisr el Shugurov, Located in the southwestern part of Idlib. This area relates to the so-called de-escalation zone, that of agreement is to be monitored by the Turkish military contingent. As it appears, with the control of the Turkish forces in Idlib not all right.
The Arabic-language sources claimed, that the area of Jisr al-Shugur was bombed from the air.
On the territory of this region of Idlib province concentrated so-called militants of the Islamic Party of Turkestan and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (*banned in Russia). The ringleaders of these groups do not hide the, that whenever trying to carefully prepare an attack on a Russian military facility in Latakia.
antiaircraft umbrella, open over the airbase "Hmeymim", All recent threats from the air safely neutralized.
The Defense Ministry this information does not comment.