Syrian air-defense intercepts more than half of Israeli rockets: Russian MoD
Thursday 10/May/2018 - 02:34 PM
The Russian Ministry of Defense on Thursday
announced that the Syrian air-defense systems had managed to show down more
than half of the 60 air-to-surface rockets fired by 28 Israeli aircraft in a
massive overnight strike in Syria.
A total of 70 projectiles, including 60
air-to-surface rockets and more than 10 surface-to-surface missiles, hit
Iranian military targets and Syrian air-defense systems near Damascus and in
the south of the country on Thursday morning, the Russian military said in a
statement carried by Russia Today news website.
The damage inflicted on Iranian military and Syrian
civilian infrastructure by the airstrikes is being evaluated, the statement
added.(MENA)
