Syrian fighters acquired about 150 drones in addition to different covert help from Ukrainian intelligence operatives final month, weeks forward of the rebels’ advance that toppled Bashar al-Assad over the weekend, in keeping with the Washington Put up.
Citing unnamed sources accustomed to Ukrainian navy actions, the Put up late on Tuesday stated Ukrainian intelligence despatched about 20 drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones about 4 to 5 weeks in the past to assist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Russia’s international ministry had earlier stated, with out offering proof, that the rebels had acquired drones from Ukraine and coaching in find out how to function them, an accusation that Ukraine’s international ministry on the time stated it “categorically” rejected.
A former al Qaeda affiliate, HTS has moved to put in an interim administration after Syria’s 13-year civil battle fractured the nation amid one of the oppressive police states within the Center East underneath 5 many years of Assad household rule.
Russia, which is locked in its personal battle with Ukraine after invading the nation in February 2022, is a key ally of Assad and stepped in to offer him navy help within the nation’s civil battle in 2015.
The Russian navy had helped Assad’s forces launch air strikes towards the rebels earlier this month. However Russian battle bloggers had warned that the toppling of Assad threatened not solely two strategically-important Russian navy services in Syria but in addition Moscow’s very presence within the Center East.
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