Newly-released satellite images show huge devastation at the strategic Tiyas airbase (T4) in central Syria.
The images were published by the BBC, which had obtained them from the US geopolitical intelligence company Stratfor.
According to analysts who examined the images, 4 Russian combat helicopters and some 20 supply trucks have been completely destroyed inside the airbase, which has been extensively used by the Russian Air Force, especially when liberating the ancient city of Palmyra.
On May 10, ISIS shelled the Tiyas airbase with artillery and rocket launchers after controlling the deserted battalion nearly 8 km to the northwest of the airbase.
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Poster Comment:
Plumppp If this attack happened it looks way too sophisticated for a run of the mill ISIS attack. ISIS, if it was them, had help from the usual suspects, meaning Western/Israeli intelligence/special forces.
From Sputnik (translated from Italian) Syria, min. Russian defense: voices on destruction of Russian helicopters are false the Russian Defense Ministry have categorically denied the relationships on the presumed destruction of Russian helicopters that operate in Syria and of victims between the staff of the Russian air force base near Latakia in Syria. “All the Russian combat helicopters in Syria carry out previewed tasks faces to eliminate the terrorists. Not there are victims between the staff of the Russian base”, it has said the spokesman of the Maj ministry. Gen. Igor Konashenkov. Konashenkov has emphasized that the voices of the presumed destruction of an entire group of Russian combat helicopters and two dozens of truck to the air force base Hmeimim have been diffuse from the terrorists of the Islamic State whom they had uselessly tried “to ago sell” this so-called “breaking news” approximately 10 days.