Posted on 09/01/2015 2:08:46 PM PDT by Rusty0604
No Russian jets were deployed to Syria in order to launch attacks against Islamic State militants (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) and Syrian rebels, a military source told RT, dismissing reports in Israeli media.
"There has been no redeployment of Russian combat aircraft to the Syrian Arab Republic,” the source told RT on Tuesday. “The Russian Air Force is at its permanent bases and carrying out normal troop training and combat duty.”
On Monday, the Israeli news site Ynet News cited Western diplomats as saying that a Russian “expeditionary force” has arrived in Syria to set up camp at a government airbase near Damascus in order to lead an offensive against IS militants and rebel-aligned targets.
The report added that “thousands of Russian military personnel are set to touch down in Syria, including advisers, instructors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and pilots who will operate the aircraft.”
The report’s author, Alex Fishman, who was contacted by RT, refused to comment on the legitimacy of his source.
“…I am not talking about my sources, sorry,” he said. “I’m not publishing something without a legitimate source. I’ve been working for the last 40 years in the military field. So you can understand that it’s a very,very legitimate source.”
Moscow has denied plans to station troops in Syria. On August 4, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the involvement of Russian military in the Syrian conflict “is not on the agenda.”
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“These are not the fighter jets that you are looking for.”
Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year caught almost everyone off guard. The Russian military disguised its actions, and denied them - but those “little green men” who popped up in the Black Sea peninsula were a textbook case of the Russian practice of military deception - or maskirovka.
“How Russia outfoxes its enemies”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31020283
You are preaching to the choir, FRiend.
Do you think they are in Syria or not?
I would be surprised if they were not ether there or making moves to be there.
*either
thanks Luke..
or should I say, Obee Wan?
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