On April 7,
from 3.42 to 3.56 (MSK), two destroyers of the US Navy (USS Ross and USS Porter) made a massive strike with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the area near Crete Island (Mediterranean Sea) against the Syrian Shayrat Air Base (Homs province).
According to the objective monitoring data, 23 missiles reached the Syrian Air Base.
As a result, an equipment depot, a
training building, a mess, six MiG-23 aircraft in repairing hangars as
well as a radar station were destroyed.
The runway, taxiways and aircraft of the Syrian Air Force at parking places were not damaged.
According to the information received
from the Air Base Command, two Syrian servicemen are missing, 4 were
killed and 6 got burning wounds during firefighting.
Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the American massive missile strike on the Syrian Air Base is extremely low.
These actions of the American party are
considered as a serious violation of the Memorandum on prevention of
incidents and providing security during operations in the air space of
Syria signed in 2015.
The Russian Defence Ministry suspends the cooperation with the Pentagon within this Memorandum.
All the accusations against Damascus
that it had violated the Chemical Weapons Convention of 2013 given by
the USA as reasons for the strike are groundless.
The Russian Defence Ministry has
repeatedly explained that the Syrian troops had not used chemical
weapons. The Russian military department is looking forward to receiving
explanations from the USA concerning the existence of irrefutable proof
that the Syrian army had used chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun.
It is to be stressed that in the years
2013-2016 the Syrian government undertook all measures to eliminate
chemical weapons, its delivery systems, production facilities. All
chemical weapons stocks have been eliminated. The components for their
production have been transported from the Syrian Arab Republic to the
enterprises of the United States, Finland, Great Britain, and Germany
where they have been destroyed.
The US administrations have changed but
the methods for unleashing wars have remained the same since
bombardments of Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya. Allegations,
falsifications, grandstand playing with photos and test-tubes with
pseudo results in international organizations became the reason for
aggression initiation instead of an objective investigation.
It is to be stressed that a large-scale
offensive of the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra armed formations has been
launched right after the massive missile strike against the Syrian Air
Base.
The Russian Defence Ministry hopes that the activities of the insurgents had not been coordinated with the American party.
Today it is obvious that the American cruise missile strike had been planned long before this event.
It is necessary to conduct
reconnaissance operations, to plan and prepare the missile flight paths,
and put them on full combat alert.
It is clear for any specialist that the
decision for the missile strike on Syria had been made well in advance
of the events in Khan Sheikhoun, which have become just a formal reason
for the attack, while the demonstration of military power has been
dictated only by reasons of internal policy.
In the near future, the effectiveness of
the Syrian Armed Forces air defence system will be improved in order to
cover the most important objects of the Syrian infrastructure.
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