Departure zone

An attack on Russian military bases in Syria with the help of drones on the night of January 6 was taken from the Idlib de -escalation zone, controlled by the Armed formations of the "moderate opposition". This is stated in the commentary of the Russian Ministry of Defense, reports TASS.

In this regard, the Russian military department sent letters to the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Turkey, General Akar Hulushi and the head of the national intelligence organization of the country Hakan Fidan. "The documents indicate the need to fulfill Ankara of the obligations to ensure compliance with the cessation of the combat operations controlled by armed formations and intensifying the work to exhibit observational posts in the Idlib de -escalation zone in order to suppress such attacks of shock UAVs for any objects," the Ministry of Defense said.

Meanwhile, the official of the Ministry of Defense of Syria said that Idlib is controlled by the Jebhat Fath al-Sham group, previously known as Jebhat al-Nusra, Izvestia reports . “Jebhat Ang Nusra” is currently fully controlled by Idlib, as well as the regions bordering on other provinces, including Latakia, from where the Khmeimim was attacked on the Russian base. This group is leading in that area and receives assistance from the United States. Other gangs, whether it is the Syrian Free Army, Feilak Ar-Ramman or some other, they all obey Jebhat al-Nusre, ”said the Syrian military.

“The Ministry of Defense is suspected of striking at the Khmeimim air base precisely the Jebhat al-Nusra militants,” the source of the publication in Russian military-diplomatic circles confirmed.

The day before, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that during the attack of drones in the sky above the Mediterranean Sea, the US intelligence was on duty. “The initiative statement by the Pentagon representative, that all these technologies are“ easily accessible in the open market ”cause not only our concern, but also legitimate interest: what technologies are we talking about, where this“ market ”is located and which special services there are trading in space intelligence. Moreover, this makes us look at a strange coincidence, why during the period of attacks of the UAVs of terrorist facilities in Syria in Syria in Syria Over the water area of ​​the Mediterranean Sea, at an altitude of 7 thousand meters, it was barracking between Tartus and Khmeimim it was the US Navy intelligence aircraft, ”the military department noted.

The Ministry of Defense emphasized that in a message about the attack of drones "it was intentionally that nothing was said about the involvement in this particular country, nor about the technology itself." "Although only in order to program controller controllers of an aircraft type UPS and the reset of ammunition in the GPS system, you need to have a decent engineering school of one of the developed countries. Yes, and not everyone can get accurate coordinates based on space intelligence," the report said.

Meanwhile, one of the Russian military, who is now at the Khmeimim air base, told the BBC that on December 31 the object was also attacked by several drones, and there was no mortar shelling from the ground , which was officially announced to the Ministry of Defense. The source clarified that during shelling 11 units of flight equipment were damaged. “Four restorations are not subject to,” he said on conditions of anonymity.

On Monday, the Ministry of Defense said that Russian military facilities in Syria attacked aircraft type drunks with GPS . "The terrorists for the first time massively used aircraft type of aircraft type, launched with a range of more than 50 km using modern guidance technologies for satellite coordinates of the GPS," it was said. “The fact of using the aircraft type shock unmanned aerial vehicles indicates that the militants have transmitted technologies that allow you to conduct terrorist acts with the use of similarity unmanned aerial vehicles in any country. "

An attempt to attack the terrorists on Russian objects in Syria with the help of drones was repulsed by electronic warfare and air defense systems "shell-s". “Ten shock unmanned aerial vehicles approached the Khmeimim Russian air base and three more to the material and technical support point of the Russian Navy in the city of Tartus,” the Ministry of Defense noted. “Seven unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by regular anti -aircraft missiles of Russian Air Defense Pvo, which were not involved duty ".

Six more drones intercepted the Russian units of the electronic warfare. "Of these, three were put on the controlled territory outside the base, and three more unmanned aerial vehicles during landing were detonated from a collision with the ground," the Ministry of Defense said. The data of intercepted drones are deciphered, the exact place of their launch is determined. None of the Russian military was injured, there is no material damage at Russian facilities.