Sunday,25 July 2021 (YJC)_Russia has strengthened Syria's missile defense systems, limiting Israeli airstrikes, the media reported Sunday.
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported that Russia has lost patience with Israel in Syria. The report claims that Moscow's move is the result of talks between Russia and the United States, and that Washington does not welcome Israel's continued attacks on Syria.
The report says that this space has now been created for Russia to be able to freely support the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and that Syria will be able to overthrow the Israeli regime by using advanced missile defense systems and technical knowledge.
In recent days, the Syrian media reported that the Israeli regime repulsed the attacks. Russia has supported Bashar al-Assad's government since the start of the civil war and continues to have a military presence in the country. There are currently 18 Russian military bases and posts in Syria.
Recently, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said his country had tested more than 320 weapons in Syria, including new helicopters.
The Russian Defense Ministry also announced in recent days that the Syrian air defense system destroyed four missiles fired by Israeli fighters.
"On the morning of July 22, two Israeli F-16 fighter jets fired four guided missiles at areas in the Syrian province of Homs," said Vadim Colt, deputy director of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria. He added that all the missiles fired by Israeli fighters were intercepted and destroyed by Syrian Armed Forces defense missiles equipped with Russian Buk M2E missiles.
"Our air defenses are countering missiles fired by Israel in the skies of the western suburbs of Homs and have shot down a number of them," the official Syrian news agency said in a statement.
Following the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist regime occupied a large part of the Golan Heights in Syria. In 1974, the United Nations established peacekeepers to monitor the ceasefire between the Israeli and Syrian sides in the Golan Heights.
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