Russian forces: Syria intercepted nearly half of Israeli projectiles during recent strike
Russian forces stationed in Syria say the Arab country’s air defenses managed to intercept nearly half of incoming Israeli projectiles during a recent attack by the occupying regime against a western Syrian city.
The Thursday attack saw four Israeli warplanes blitzing a “research center” in the city of Maysaf, Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency reported, citing the Russian servicemen as saying on Friday.
The aircraft launched a total of four cruise missiles and 16 guided aerial bombs against the facility, they added.
Using Russian-made anti-aircraft weapons, Syrian soldiers shot down two missiles and seven guided bombs, the report added, quoting a senior Russian officer.
The Israeli aerial assault took place at 19:15 local time (16:15 GMT) on Thursday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, adding that two civilians had been injured in the attack.
The attack “[also] caused some material damages and [led to eruption of] a blaze…,” the report added.
Syria and the Israeli regime are technically at war due to the latter’s 1967-to-present occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights.
Israel maintains a significant military presence in the territory, which it uses as one of its launchpads for its attacks against Syrian soil.
The regime's attacks on Syria started to grow significantly in scale and frequency after 2011 when the country found itself in the grip of rampant foreign-backed militancy and terrorism.
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