TASS informs that the submarine of the Black Sea Fleet Veliky Novgorod operating as a part of the operational connection of the Navy of Russia in the Mediterranean Sea manufactured from an underwater state launches of the Calibre cruise missiles on objects of terrorists in Syria, all targets were destroyed, reported on Friday in the Russian Defense Ministry.
"The strong points revealed in recent days, accumulations of manpower and armored vehicles and also warehouses of ammunition of fighters of Jabhat al-Nusra (the terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) in Idlib Governorate became the purposes for defeat. The range of the targets was about 300 kilometers. Data of objective control confirmed defeat of all purposes", - said the department.
The Ministry of Defence specified that rocket attack destroyed important control centers, bases of preparation and armored vehicles of the terrorists who were taking part in an attempt of the taking of the Russian military police officers in the north of the province Hama.
Police platoon was attacked
Earlier the chief of the Head operational management of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces colonel general Sergey Rudskoy reported that fighters of Jabhat al-Nusra unrolled on Tuesday large-scale approach to positions of the Syrian troops in a de-escalation zone Idlib to break successful advance of government troops near Deir ez-Zor. The attack initiated by intelligence agencies of the USA was beaten off.
Rudskoy noted that the attempt to occupy the division of military police of the Russian Federation which was on the observation post for control of a situation in a de-escalation zone was one of the main goals of actions of fighters. As a result of the attack of bandits the platoon of military police in a number of 29 people was blocked and within several hours reflected the attacks of the exceeding opponent.
For the release of police officers, the group of unblocking which part divisions Sil of special operations, the military police staffed by the military - natives of the North Caucasus, the Syrian special troops were was created. With the assistance of airplanes of Russian Air Forces the ring of an environment was broken through and the Russian military with fights without loss left to the region of an arrangement of government troops of Syria. During operation, three soldiers were wounded.
