On June 23, Russian Ministry of Defense reported missile strikes against the IS (Islamic State) in Syria
The official statement in Russian.
The missiles were launched from Russian Navy frigates, the Admiral Essen and the Admiral Grigorovich, as well as a submarine, the Krasnodar, from the eastern Mediterranean, the Defense Ministry said in a Friday statement. The submarine fired its missiles while submerged.
The strikes targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) command and control centers, as well as ammunition depots in the Syrian province of Hama.
Today’s precision strike hit a large IS ammunition depot near the town of Aqerbat, which detonated after receiving a direct hit, the Defense Ministry statement noted.
The remaining targets were destroyed in subsequent airstrikes, the ministry said. Russia warned Turkey and Israel about the attacks via military-to-military hotlines.
According to the Defense Ministry, “[the ships] targeted an area east of Palmyra, where the militants’ heavy weaponry and manpower were located. The militants had moved there from Raqqa. All targets were destroyed.”
#СИРИЯ Пуски крылатых ракет «Калибр» по объектам ИГИЛ в Сирии кораблями ВМФ России из Средиземного моря https://t.co/9KEkMvvxwC pic.twitter.com/PudqbUbQDC
— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) June 23, 2017
Bulletin of the Russian Defence Ministry on implementation of the Memorandum on creation of de-escalation zones (June 23, 2017)
Ceasefire observation
Control groups continue monitoring the ceasefire observation within the implementation of the Memorandum on creation of the de-escalation zones in the Syrian Arab Republic, which had been signed by the Russia, Turkey, and Iran on May 4, 2017.
Situation in the de-escalation zones is assessed as stable.
Within last 24 hours, the Russian party of the Russia-Turkey Commission on violations of the Joint Agreement has registered 13 cases of firing in the provinces of Aleppo (2), Hama (1), Damascus (5) and Latakia (5).
The Turkish party has registered 12 cases of ceasefire violations in the provinces of Daraa (4), Hama (1), Homs (1) and Damascus (6).
Most cases of unselective firing from small arms have been registered in the areas controlled by insurgents of the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groupings.
Humanitarian aid provided to the Syrian population
Within last 24 hours, the Russian Centre for reconciliation of opposing sides held 3 humanitarian actions in the city of Aleppo, civilians received 3.6 tons of drinking water.
Total weight of humanitarian aid is 3.6 tons.
1130 people received humanitarian aid.
Total number of humanitarian events reached 1,379.
In course of the humanitarian action, Russian military physicians provided medical assistance to 213 people.
The United Nations held 1 humanitarian action:
Aircraft of the Abakan Air aviation company delivered 20 tons of humanitarian aid (food products) to the Deir ez-Zor area using parachute platforms.
Reconciliation of opposing sides
Within last 24 hours, 11 ceasefire agreements have been signed with representatives of inhabited areas in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The number of people living in the inhabited areas which signed the agreement – more than 34,000.
Total number of inhabited areas, the leaders of which had signed reconciliation agreements is 1,828.
Negotiations on joining ceasefire regime have been continued with field commanders of detachments of armed opposition in the Aleppo, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Homs, Idlib and al-Quneitra provinces.
The number of armed formations, which had claimed to observe the ceasefire regime, is 223.
I can understand warnings given to the Turks as long as they play along but not to Schlomo agents.
The Syrian War is Schlomo’s War. This is speaking to the author and strategist of the six years of horror and chaos.
And so, it sends a message: in your face.
The tail wags the dog in that region. Look at SA. King Bibi rules the Kingdom. King Bibi just met with the Prince Trump’s son-in-law princeling.
Only Russia is above the “king”. Bibi goes to Moscow. The Tsar receives the King.
Understand the relationships, and you will see why what is done and how it is done.
Warning ‘Schlomo’ is very sensible. It prevents them from shreying about it and pressures them to reciprocate. Lots of gain for zero loss.
Agree, Schlomo should be considered outside the Syrian story. But we must anticipate Russia for sure have their good reasons to advise Schlomo.
Every time I read about one of these “events”. I think how much combat experience the RF is gaining.
Please don’t misconstrue my meaning when I think: when you play sport, you can train and train and train, but it only when you play a few games against the best teams do your skills markedly improve.
Now, Syria is not a “game” – people die there needlessly every day.
But it seems the neocons want a real war. They may find their RF opponents are surprisingly “match fit” due to their very real and deadly engagement in Syria.
Putin notes Syria operation provided Russian military with invaluable combat experience
MOSCOW, June 15. /TASS/. Advanced Russian weapons systems were put to the test during combat missions in Syria and the experience from their use is invaluable, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his annual televised Q&A session on Thursday.
“It has done enormous good for our defense industry.
The use of cutting-edge weapons has allowed us to understand how they work under combat conditions and to make required adjustments in the quality of these advanced weapons systems.
“But we knew for sure they are good weapons.”
Representatives from Russia’s military industrial complex go on working trips to Syria with the aim of making modifications needed to upgrade weapons and combat hardware, depending on their efficiency in combat activities.
“I can say that our Armed Forces’ experience gained under combat conditions, especially with the use of cutting-edge weapons, is invaluable, I am not exaggerating when I say this,” the president said.
More:
http://tass.com/defense/951511
Several months ago the Russians indicated that they had tested over 150 new weapons, systems and munitions in the Syrian war.
They also have used reconciliation as a weapon to win territory for the Syrian Army.
Their psy-ops techniques, which could be seen as defensive and offensive, have saved manpower, protected civilians, preserved infrastructure and enabled humanitarian aid to flow into what otherwise would be conflict zones.
Additionally, diplomacy is a tool of the military planning. Russian diplomats at all levels from Moscow, to Damascus, to Ankara, to Teheran, to Astana have coordinated Putin’s master schema for victory, preservation of Syrian sovereignty and geopolitical leverage for Russian power and influence.
With the great military performance demonstrably recorded, Russian military equipment sales are roaring worldwide. And the Turkish Stream and other Gazprom ventures are on the high road for revenues into the Russian treasury and boosting the economy.
Putin’s ratings regarding foreign affairs is at 90%. And after the video and photos of Putin presiding in the pouring rain honoring the war dead, his overall popularity will not just rise, but sink its roots deeper into the Russian psyche. They have a leader and they have a purpose, and the Russian Way is looking like First-in-Class among the superpowers.
Underlying all the tools in Russian statecraft is patience. That is also the essence of Strategy. Time is an ally. Calm is a technique in martial arts.
As Bruce Lee stated: Be like water.
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
Still water has unleashed power.
Add to this Putin’s: Strike First!
And you understand more of what Russia is doing when you think they have done nothing.
Often, they have done something, but you don’t know it.
Like Bruce Lee, they are too fast with their own Jeet Kune Do strikes for amateurs to recognize the blows, the defenses.
Larchmonter445
I am very impressed by your write up. Thank you.
Practice makes perfect, maybe particularly for the military. Yes, I acknowledge the triteness, but in defence offer;
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/exercitus
Please note the derivation of the Spanish noun for “army.”
***Veteran*** status is the most regarded status of any unit in an effective armed force. Without a doubt Russia itself has become much stronger and better equiped as a result of its experiences in Russia and Ukraine (in Ukraine covert Russian forces gained direct experience of eliminating proxy NATO artillery units- and destroying/kettling large amounts of mobile armour). Only a fool thinks Russia fears the West on its own turf.
But that isn’t the game today. The Russian Empire is a shruken joke compared to its glory Soviet days, and the West isn’t shedding any tears over the lands Russia still commands. No, the game is about non-Russian lands – and the Empire powers that can take and/or destroy/protect them.
Are any of the ex-soviet East European nations now in NATO’s pocket at any risk from Russia? No- obviously not. But every one of Russia’s allies (as opposed to official members of the Russia confederation) are at direct risk from the West- and Russia does absolutely nothing to change this.
Once Russia’s ‘veteran’ forces are scaled back in Syria, for instance, most of Syria almost immediately falls to ISIS again (see Palmyra as a nasty example of this issue). Russia ‘veteran’ forces can successfully kill today’s ISIS chump army in Syria, but every one of these disposable chumps has two more waiting/wanting to replace them.
And in case people have failed to notice, the West is not waging war in the Russian Confederation. No- the West is currently all about war with Iran- another Ally Russia is going to let down so very badly.
Saudi Arabia even directly threatened Russia lives by official decree, and Putin’s response was to offer Saudi Arabia the level of diplomatic support Libya/Syria/Iran could only dream of. What do you think Russia’s response to Saudi Arabia’s attack on Qatar will be- given that this is a transparent method by the West to begin war with Iran by the back-door. Here’s a clue- Russia at the UN voted in such a way to back Saudi’s sickening war on Yemen.
Russia is abandoning nobody. Russia is, in fact, fighting for and supplying Syria to the extent necessary to win back territory and the people. Iran sees this, as does Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar, and now France.
Russia is the adult in the room.
LOL this ‘twilight’ fella is really a relentless agitprop.
this time he recommends Russia, Iran, RT and PressTV to attack Saudi Arabia,
even verbally (just read his latest multiple comments), so that when the US/UK coup
starts all can be blamed on the other side.
you ain’t fooling anyone!
p.s.
if ‘twilights’ supervisor is reading this, it’s time to let him go, he’s been done for.
ta-ta
“Are any of the ex-soviet East European nations now in NATO’s pocket at any risk from Russia? No- obviously not. But every one of Russia’s allies (as opposed to official members of the Russia confederation) are at direct risk from the West- and Russia does absolutely nothing to change this.”
You seem to have swallowed NATO’s propaganda about ‘benign protection’ hook, line, and sinker. As most adults know, ‘benign protection’ doesn’t quite rule out deception and coercion. NATO vassals such as Poland and the Baltics are going to be utterly obliterated by Russia even though NATO’s revered leadership won’t let it on. That’s the deception part of it. As for coercion, the lawlessness and social decomposotion of neoliberal totalitarianism are quite compelling — just watch the Ukronazis.
I have long had the impression that the Russian elite thinks that a major war with the US is inevitable but is playing the hand out to prepare.
They will strike when to delay any longer would compromise their position.
Paul Craig Roberts is one who berates Putin for being soft. As the Saker says the Russians are playing for the game not appearance.
The Zionist regime has sent 18 military aircraft to Saudi Arabia, reportedly to prevent a coup getting in the way of their hoped-for war against Iran. However, the aircraft themselves could possibly be used to attack Iran, leaving an ambiguity over who attacked – Israel, the US, or Saudi Arabia.
But of course …..
https://www.stormfront.org/jewish/deception.html
By way of deception thou shalt do war. The motto of Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, is, according to recently defected Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky: “
While we and they both hate zionism. Using a racist neo-nazi site as a source is not an acceptable source.
A source is a source. And censorship is everywhere to be refuted. Hatred too.
I don’t see it that way. I don’t use the NYT,BBC,Washington Post,CNN,MSNBC ,or theGuardian to give credence to events in Russia. Nor do I use old copies of Der Stürmer as sources on Jews. And Stormfront is the modern “nazi-lite” version of Der Stürmer. So no,”a source isn’t just a source”. It matters greatly what the motives of those behind a source are.One would think after all the Russophobic “news” sites we see in the West today that that would be understandable to everyone by now.
A source is always a source… Just depends on how good your are at seeing how info fits into the bigger picture…info from anywhere… Discard the motives and the info is just that, information. Separate the emotional/moralistic from the pragmatically useful.
Uncle, you’re entitled to your opinions. However, your advocacy for censorship is ill-conceived. It would appear that ‘the fact’ stands – ‘by way of deception thou shalt do war’ is the motto of the Mossad.
Why shoot the messenger? Concentrate on the message: deception (by omission or commission) is the weapon of choice for a ‘spy’ agency. Big deal. I mean, really: the message is a big deal – this is an important piece of information which has been handed to humanity on a plate.
It is in the nature of a lie to mimic truth; those who practise deception wage war on those who seek truth.
Perversely, there’s nothing hypocritical in the motto!
Perhaps it would have been helpful had it been stated why it was necessary to link to such a highly political and ideological web site simply as a reference for the very well known Mossad motto.
That motto is known to almost everyone here. Probably (I hope) 99% of them didn’t get it from neo-nazi sites. Where you get information is a big deal. Because you don’t just pickup the few truthful (already well known bites of information) things they would post. But also the racist baggage that comes with it. With that particular story it was a review from a well known book that there were probably a dozen non-nazi sites that a review could have come from about it. That site is a white supremacist site.That supports a nazi ideology that ironically,killed more white people than any other. It killed untold millions of Russians among others during WWII,including causing the death of Putin’s older brother.And today butchers Russian World people in Donbass.Its never a good idea to “have supper with the devil, even if you like a dish or two on the menu”.You end up with getting food poisoning.I suspect the poster,and some others didn’t/don’t know the ideology served up by that site.But it is important to understand those facts.
As a postscript to my post: That book is from 1990 (27 years ago),in the article it says it was by a “recent defector”. I read the book in the 1990’s myself. But without learning about it from a neo-nazi site.The book is very interesting. And for the time period,it was quite an expose. But not today it isn’t. Points from the book are common knowledge to most people in 2017. Anyone looking for goods books on Israel’s nefarious deeds can check out,”the Samson Option”,”Dangerous Liaisons” ,”The General’s Son”. And many more I’m sure.Those three,just as with the Mossad book,aren’t new either.But they are very interesting in explaining zionist crimes in Israel.
Judaism is a (white) supremacist ideology; zionism is its political wing. Israel is a crime against humanity; Palestine is the scene of the crime.
There’s nothing a man can do about the colour of his skin but his inhumanity can be called-out.
National Socialism in 1930s Germany was not a ‘supremacist’ ideology, it was ‘nationalist’ only.
Nazi, as an epithet, is about as meaningful as anti-semite, which is to say, meaningless: removed
https://vimeo.com/50531435
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKMV6e5kEo
Lets close this conversation down now as its off-topic and getting personal. Mod
The S-300s will take ample care of them regardless of who is in the cockpit.