Russian aviation has carried out airstrikes against opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, BNR reported. This was announced by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria Oleg Ignasyuk.
In his words, the situation is worsening in Syria after the terrorist group "Jabhat al-Nusra" and other radical opposition armed formations launched a joint offensive against the positions of government troops in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
Ignasiuk added that the Russian Aerospace Forces are supporting the Syrian Arab Army by striking with missiles and bombs the manpower and equipment of the armed formations.
For the past 24 hours, at least 200 terrorists from "Jabhat al-Nusra" have been killed. and other groupings. The operation to repel the aggression continues, Ignasyuk said, quoted by TASS and other Russian media.
Syria has been promised additional Russian military aid, two Syrian military sources told Reuters today, quoted by BTA.
Damascus expects in the next 72 hours that new Russian military equipment will begin arriving at Russia's Khmeimim airbase near the coastal Syrian city of Latakia.