Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea have fired three cruise missiles against rebel targets around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the first time Russian ships in the Mediterranean have launched any strikes during their involvement in Syria.
The attacks aimed to stall the Nusra Front-led rebels from expanding deeper into the government-held western half of the city. Over the past two weeks, momentum in Aleppo have shifted in favor of the rebels, threatening to cut off supply routes into the government-held half.
Russia has responded with increased airstrikes in the area, but so far to little effect. It appears the cruise missile fire marks a further escalation as Russia attempts to both slow the arrival of rebel reinforcements from Idlib, and to prevent the rebels already there from taking more ground.
In those past two weeks, most of the territory exchanged in and around Aleppo has happened over the weekend, which likely will mean an increase in airstrikes in the area, as both sides remain stalemated over the city, once the industrial and financial capital of the country.
It’s amazing that the “rebels” can still prevail against the SAA, Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia even after Turkey switched sides. LOL.
Russia is serious about holding Syria, and of course Iran too. those facts will stand in the way of Trump making America great again. Now is the time to run from Trump as fast as possible. But Americans won’t understand that and so the danger is every present. If he doesn’t stop himself, which is becoming much more likely, then somebody has to stop him. The world depends on it!
Jason: The airstrikes are hitting the terrorists’ rear areas. Logistics, Command, Control, etc. The effects of such strikes will not be felt on the front lines immediately. Once front line supplies dwindle, their combat effectiveness will nosedive without their supportive rear.
We’re basically seeing a ton of taxpayer dollars being vaporized under Russian bombs.
Mr Ditz has been a long time supporter of these terrorists… ooops.. I mean “moderate rebels”…. His articles have always take the terrorist side and he barely bothers to conceal his bias.
The truth is that JaN and its buddies have expended many of their best fighters on this bridgehead, plus all of their heavy tanks and their current VBIED force, and all it has really earned them is a nice cauldron controlled on either side by SAA fire control zones. The Syrian gov and its allies now have a great opportunity to bleed these terrorist pigs as the jihadis seek to hold an non-defendable area.
“Mr Ditz has been a long time supporter of these terrorists”
Liar.