Beirut – The Russian military says two of its ships have launched cruise missiles at targets in Syria from the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry says the Serpukhov and the Zeleny Dol corvettes launched three long-range Kalibr cruise missiles on Friday at Syria’s al-Qaida branch, formerly known as the Nusra Front. The ministry says the missiles destroyed a command facility and a militant camp near the militant-held town of Daret Azzeh, along with a mine-making facility and a weapons facility in the province of Aleppo.
Russian warships in the past have launched cruise missiles at targets in Syria from both the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean, a show of the navy’s long-range precision strike capability.
The cruise missile strikes have added an extra punch to the aerial campaign Russia has conducted since September in support of President Bashar Assad’s military.
The development comes after Russia this week began using Iranian territory to launch airstrikes in Syria, with Moscow’s bombers flying out of the Islamic Republic for three straight days to hit targets in the war-ravaged country.
The United States is dropping between 2-3 thousand (guided) munitions per month on ISIS, and it doesn’t make any headlines in the US press, and some people think we should bomb even more.
Now almost every bomb Russia drops is covered by the media as major news.
(If you notice, from the image, Russia isn’t dropping smart bombs, but rather old school gravity bombs. In the image you can count as much as 19 bombs, which is obviously not smart bombs. Utilizing guided munitions can do the same job with 1 or 2 bombs, while minimizing civilian casualties. )
Trump’s best friend Putin has begun genocidal bombing of the Syrian Kurds with jets flying out of his heimlandt Iran. The Kurds have been the only force to stand up to killer Assad and terrorists ISIS at the same time. But Herr Trump supports these murderers. Buh-leeve me, Buh-leeve me.