Russia announces the death of 18 militants and the destruction of a control center in Idlib (Syria)

June 29 () –

The Syria-based Russian Center for Reconciliation has reported the death of 18 rebels and the destruction of both a militia control center in Idlib (northern Syria) and a depot with weapons and ammunition after an attack “by high precision” of the Russian Army perpetrated this Tuesday.

“The attacks against targets of illegal armed groups in Syria were carried out in response to militant attempts to attack targets in Syrian government-controlled territory,” Rear Admiral and deputy head of the center Oleg Gurinov said, according to reports. reported the Russian news agency Interfax.

Gurinov has assured that the attacks were carried out in response to the “continuous attempts by illegal armed groups” in Sarjá to attack territory controlled by the Syrian government through the use of drones.

“Systematic, targeted and serious violations of the conflict elimination protocols and the Bilateral Memorandum on Flight Safety in Syria by the so-called US-led International Anti-Terrorism Coalition continue. Eleven cases of violations related to air vehicle flights coalition drones have been registered in one day,” added Gurinov.

This comes after an alleged Russian shelling on June 25 against a vegetable and fruit market in the Syrian town of Jisr al Shughur, west of Idlib, left at least nine civilians dead and more than 30 injured.

Barely two days after that attack, another bombardment killed eight suspected members of the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), a terrorist organization inherited from the Al Nusra Front (once a subsidiary of Al Qaeda in Syria) that controls Idlib, in northwest Syria, and that it is the last rebel stronghold in the country.

Russia is one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s main international backers, and its military intervention in 2015 allowed government forces to repel rebel advances and once again seize the initiative on the battlefield.