Details of the battle of the Russian military police in the Idlib region. In Syria, a platoon of the Russian military police was surrounded, but the participants of the special operation managed to break through the ring “Morale was normal, fighting. There was no panic, people but

From Syria, which gives details of the battle in Idlib, during which a Russian military police unit was surrounded and fought for several hours.

Idlib. Syrian province on the border with Turkey. The mountains. From there comes the main stream of ISIS (members of a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) with Russian passports. When Idlib was declared a de-escalation zone, it was immediately clear that it would be very difficult to establish peace there. But it is necessary to block the access of militants to the territory of Syria. And for sure - this week 29 fighters of the military police of the Russian Ministry of Defense are surrounded. The platoon holds out for several hours, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the fighters of the local tribe, until their own come to the rescue. Guys from the special operations service and pilots from the Aerospace Forces. Our correspondent Leonid Kitrar talks about those who embody the pride of Russia today.

Modular armored vehicle K-63968 "Typhoon-K" and multi-purpose vehicle AMN 233114 "Tigr-M" of the military police of the Russian army, Idlib region, Syria, September 2017 (c) Ren-TV

They are firing at us. Around. Mortar attack. I can't report. This time, before dawn, is called "wolf hour". The sun hasn't risen yet. Human sleep is the strongest. It was at this moment - in all ages - it was customary to launch surprise attacks.

Shooting yet. Idlib de-escalation zone. Observation post. Under fire are members of the Russian military police and fighters of the Syrian army. The militants of Jabhat al-Nusra (banned in the Russian Federation) immediately used mortars against them and what is called the "hellish weapon" - gas cylinders stuffed with explosives.

It was only at first that the shells exploded several times a minute. Then the shelling became so dense that there were simply no pauses between explosions.

"My platoon took up defense on the second floor. According to the combat calculation. They held the defense until direct-fire mines hit the building. The second floor was destroyed, and we moved to the first, where the SAR servicemen were. Together with them, they held the defense ",- says the commander of the military police platoon Alexander Samoilov.

Tactically, the terrorists acted very competently. Under the cover of dense mortar fire, they approached close combat distance and opened fire from small arms. This car "Ural" is evidence of this. Its entire side is covered with bullet holes from machine guns and heavy machine guns.

The Syrian soldier was wounded in the head and leg. If not for the help of our military, he could have died from a painful shock. But survived.

At the same time, a special unit was raised on alarm, created to help posts that fell under attack. It includes the rarest military specialists - fighters of special operations forces.

Alexander coolly shows his helmet. The bullet hit the back of the helmet, changed its trajectory and got stuck in the front hemisphere. In the heat of battle, Alexander did not notice this.

Protective helmet Armokom LZSH-1, damaged during the battle (c) Ren-TV

“They destroyed the balloon launcher and the crew. That helped a lot to reduce the intensity of shelling,” says Alexander, a member of the special operations forces.

It is impossible to show your faces to the MTR fighters: the detachment will work in Syria for a long time and the identity of each must remain a secret for the opponents. Moreover, the battle often has to be fought with a colossal numerical superiority of the enemy. As it was this time.

“It was in our direction that we counted about four or five tanks. And there were the same number of infantry fighting vehicles. Well, in each infantry fighting vehicle there were about 8-10 people. our positions, says MTR officer Maxim.

During the first hour, all shots for grenade launchers were used up. There was nothing to resist the armored vehicles of the terrorists. It was at this moment that the Russian Aerospace Forces came to the rescue - SU-25 "Rooks" attack aircraft and combat helicopters.

To understand the scale and nuances of the battle, it suffices to imagine that in the very first minutes the path to retreat from the military police was cut off. Using tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the terrorists went 12 kilometers deep into the front. The entire personnel of the observation post - 29 people and 15 MTR fighters who managed to come to the rescue - were surrounded. By that time, there was almost no technology for a breakthrough at speed.

"This car was our only hope. I immediately drove it into the basement under fire in order to save it,"- says military police officer Sultan Misirbiev.

The Sultan, risking his life, saved not only his car, but, in fact, saved all his colleagues. Aircraft, of course, broke through the exit corridor, but the shelling did not stop. And the Typhoon's armor stopped more than one fragment and a bullet.

Already at the very end of the evacuation, a mine exploded under the armored car and damaged part of the suspension. But the Typhoon didn't even stop. The car is not designed for that.

Modular armored vehicle K-63968 "Typhoon-K", multi-purpose vehicle AMN 233114 "Tiger-M" and URAL trucks of the military police of the Russian army, Idlib region, Syria, September 2017 (c) Ren-TV

It is now clear that for this attack the terrorists gathered not just huge forces, but the best.

"There was an assault squad of militants. They are very interestingly equipped. All in multicam. All with good unloading. Masks. That is, difficult people", Alexander recalls.

Multicam is the color of camouflage. Used by US Special Operations Command. And that is not all. The attack on the observation point in the newly launched Idlib de-escalation zone, apparently, could be part of a much larger plan designed to disrupt the successful offensive of the Syrian army near Deir ez-Zor. As the Russian Ministry of Defense stated, the United States is most directly involved in the breakthrough of the militants deep into the front:

"According to reports, this offensive was initiated by US intelligence agencies to stop the successful advance of government troops east of Deir ez-Zor."

The calculation of the militants turned out to be wrong. The submarine put an end to the adventure of the An-Nusra terrorists and their sponsors " Velikiy Novgorod"- the Caliber missiles already known to the whole world. In a few days, the terrorists lost a large group and dozens of pieces of equipment.

For modern military history, such an operation is a huge rarity. And it's not even that less than 50 fighters with light weapons successfully repelled the onslaught of hundreds of enemies with armored vehicles. We left the battle without losses! But most importantly, each of the militants saw: the Russians do not abandon their own.

However, sad news came from Syria today. The Ministry of Defense reported that as a result of mortar shelling, the commander of the 5th Combined Arms Army, Lieutenant General Valery Asapov, was killed there. He was the head of a group of military advisers and assisted the Syrian commanders in managing the operation to liberate Deir ez-Zor. The shelling was carried out from the territory occupied by militants of the Islamic State. Lieutenant General posthumously nominated for award

Syria is back in the spotlight. Our military showed an example of courage and military art. A platoon of military police surrounded by repulsed the attacks of hundreds of militants. The enemy had mortars and even tanks. Russian special forces arrived in time to help and unblocked a police platoon. There are no losses.

And what is generally happening in Syria, now that the defeat of ISIS has become inevitable?

Most of the territory of Syria is under the control of government forces, under the control of Bashar al-Assad. There is a struggle for the rest of the territory. There are a lot of characters here. The so-called opposition, which the Americans support - not just morally, but with airstrikes. For example, in the Deir ez-Zor region, the opposition is trying to seize the oil fields. It will be a good map in the upcoming game with Bashar al-Assad. The Kurds are another player. They have contributed to the fight against ISIS. But here is one observation. The militant units seem to make way for the Kurdish offensive, and the Syrian army is being put up with stiff resistance.

This is similar to Germany in 1945, when German troops surrendered entire regions to our Western allies without a fight, and Soviet troops fought their way to Berlin with blood. The Kurdish theme generally comes to the fore. A referendum is being prepared in Iraq, the Kurds want their own state. Pending conflicts come to the surface. Quiet life in Syria is still far away. But the main thing is to end the war.

And where will the defeated ISIS bandits go? They will go underground, which means that the likelihood of terrorist attacks in Europe increases. They will be drawn to Afghanistan, to Yemen, to Libya. And in these countries, stability is not to be expected. The fight against radicals is not over.

But it is important that the series of overthrows of the leaders of the Arab countries is over in Syria. Vladimir Putin put a barrier to the American concept of chaos in the Middle East and North Africa. So now you can't do it. Legitimate authority must be respected.

With each shot, the mines lay closer and closer. The militants of Jabhat al-Nusra, banned in Russia, began shelling an observation post in the province of Idlib early in the morning. They aimed at the building where the Russian military police were located.

“We held the defense until direct-fire mortar shells hit the building. The second floor was destroyed, and we moved to the first floor, where there were also soldiers of the Syrian Arab Republic. Together with them, they held the defense on the first floor, ”said Alexander Samoilov, commander of a platoon of the Russian military police.

The defense was held by 29 fighters of the Russian military police. And over 10 Syrian soldiers. Some of them were wounded in the first minutes of the shelling.

The equipment that was taken out from the base of the observation post near Idlib: the water carrier is no longer subject to restoration, it was hit by a mine fired by militants. Before surrounding the post of the Russian military police, the terrorists fired at it with artillery.

The attack was carefully prepared by the terrorists. Militant drones have been flying over the post all week. Several mortar attacks bombed the road around.

Night shot was taken a few hours before the start of the battle: the enemy takes up positions. By dawn, the observation post was surrounded. Escape routes have been cut off.

This attack was part of a massive militant operation. We can say the last attempt to turn the situation in their favor. It is noteworthy that before this attack, an international coalition led by America and the so-called "Syrian Democratic Forces" stopped the operation to liberate Raqqa.

During the day, the militants managed to penetrate the defenses of the Syrian army to a depth of 12 kilometers, and at the front, as the military says, up to 20 kilometers. Moreover, when the Syrian troops began to cross the Euphrates River, the water level in it and the speed of the flow increased sharply - the terrorists dumped water from the dams they control. And all this in order to keep Deir ez-Zor under control - the city behind which the oil regions begin and which the Syrian army is about to liberate.

“They have already crossed the Euphrates and seized a bridgehead, which means they are already advancing on those economically beneficial areas for the militants that they do not want to give up. And, now, the United States of America tells them how to behave,” explains the head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov Andrey Koshkin.

Judging by what forces the militants threw into the operation near Idlib, they expected to take the observation post easily and quickly.

“It was in our direction that we counted about four or five tanks. And the same number of BMPs. There were about 8-10 troops in each infantry fighting vehicle, and plus the infantry went on, also went on the attack, separately from the armored vehicles. I assume that it was about 90-100 people who went only to our positions, ”said Maxim, a serviceman of the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Federation.

Maxim's unit arrived first to help our military police garrison. Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces. It was this detachment that was prepared to break through to the military who were surrounded, although the soldiers of this army unit can perform tasks of any complexity. Anywhere in the world. And for them there are no impossible missions.

This is one of the most secret divisions of the Ministry of Defense. Little is known about him. The detachment began to be created in 2009 on the basis of one of the units near Moscow. They have the most modern domestic weapons. And each fighter of this elite detachment is, in fact, unique.

It was they who in the spring of 2014 came to the aid of the Crimean self-defense. It was then that the whole country learned about the existence of "polite people."

The Special Operations Forces have been working in Syria since 2015. It is they who obtain information about the objects of terrorists. And direct our planes for air strikes. during the performance of such a task in March last year, an officer of this unit, Alexander Prokhorenko, died. Sasha corrected the work of our pilots during the liberation of Palmyra. Surrounded by terrorists, he called fire on himself. He was awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia posthumously. However, the country rarely knows the names of these people. By profession.

Here is the story of 16 MTR officers who repelled attacks by 300 militants near Aleppo for almost two days this spring. They emerged from the encirclement without loss and were awarded state awards, which were presented by Vladimir Putin personally. The faces of the heroes remained behind the scenes, the president mentioned their feat in his speech at the May 9 Parade.

“We feel a blood, piercing kinship with the generation of heroes and winners, and, addressing them, I will say: you will never be ashamed of us. The Russian, Russian soldier, even today, as at all times, showing courage and heroism, is ready for any feat, for any sacrifice for the sake of his homeland, for the sake of his people. There are such soldiers, soldiers and officers here today,” said Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Near Idlib, officers of the Special Operations Forces also accomplished a feat. With air support, they repelled several militant attacks. They lifted the blockade and went to the observation post.

“From the west, we had an assault detachment of militants. Their equipment was very interesting: everything was in MultiCam, good unloading, MultiCam masks, that is, they were not ordinary people,” said Alexander, a soldier of the Special Operations Forces.

MultiCam is a military camouflage pattern developed by a private American company in collaboration with the US Army Soldier Equipment Center. Used by units of the Main Directorate of Special Forces of the Ministry of Defense of this country. Photographs of the Russian Ministry of Defense speak of the close ties of the Americans with the militants. They were made just a few days ago in the north of the province of Deir ez-Zor.

This is a large accumulation of American armored vehicles of the Hummer type, which are in service with US special forces. And they are located in strongholds previously equipped by ISIS militants. Maybe the Americans recaptured these bases? But the pictures clearly show that around these objects there are no signs of an assault, fighting with ISIS, or craters from air strikes of the international coalition led by the United States. Moreover, given the fact that this land is controlled by ISIS units, there are not even signs of the organization of military guards around the bases. And the Hummers move quietly. This suggests that US military personnel in areas held by terrorists feel completely safe.

“Who is fighting against Assad? ISIS, al-Nusra and the United States are at war. This is the pro-American coalition. And those attempts to attack our police officers and so on testify to this. We are not opposed by a wild tribe of some incomprehensible bandits, we are opposed by a militarily powerful power that has no principles,” says Alexander Zhilin, head of the Center for the Study of Public Applied Problems of National Security.

However, the story of Idlib has once again shown that it is already very difficult for terrorists to implement overseas plans. Even the observation post turned out to be a serious obstacle. Perhaps here, near Idlib, not so much a tactical as an ideological victory was won. And without loss.

“The order was given to leave. They said that I would give you a corridor, the guys came up, hold on. We packed up, the only vehicle we had left, the Typhoon armored capsule, we got out,” said Sultan Miserbiev, the driver of the military police platoon.

Near Idlib, the offensive of the militants was stopped. Government troops almost on the same day returned the positions they had lost earlier. The Caliber missiles put the final point in this operation. The retaliatory strike on the positions of the terrorists was carried out from the Veliky Novgorod submarine. From the Mediterranean.

“Important command posts, training bases and armored vehicles of the terrorists who took part in the attempt to capture 29 Russian military policemen in the north of the province of Hama were destroyed. Objective control data confirmed the defeat of targets, ”said Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry.

For two years now, the roar of Russian military aircraft taking off has not subsided over the airfield near Latakia. The support of the Russian Aerospace Forces helped the Syrians liberate most of the country - 87% of the territory.

Our aviation made over 30,000 sorties and inflicted about 100,000 precision strikes on terrorist command posts, training camps, and ammunition depots. Over 50,000 extremists have been killed.

With the help of our pilots and servicemen of the Special Operations Forces, we managed to liberate Palmyra and Aleppo. And within the next week it is planned to take full control of Deir ez-Zor.

Unique footage released - attack, mortar shelling, encirclement and breakthrough of Russian troops in the Syrian province of Idlib. A platoon of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and fighters of the SAR government troops against hundreds of al-Qaeda militants.

The soldiers were surrounded by enemies. They were faced with a difficult task - to repel the attacks of terrorists many times superior in number and wait for help. New details of this operation have become known today.

An amateur recording from the phone of one of the defenders shows the first moments of the attack. Early in the morning, the terrorists "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" ( Jabhat al-Nusra*, Syrian al-Qaeda*) are shelling a military police post on the border of the provinces of Idlib and Hama. The video clearly shows how the explosions of mines one after another, with each shot of a mortar, are getting closer and closer to the observation post, where the military police of the Russian Defense Ministry and Syrian fighters are located.

Russian military police platoon commander senior lieutenant Alexander Samoilov told the details about this fight:

“When the mortar shelling began, my platoon took up defensive positions on the second floor according to the combat crew. They held the defense until direct-fire mortar shells hit the building. The second floor was destroyed, and we moved to the first floor, where the SAR soldiers were located. We held the defense together with them,” he says.

There were 29 fighters under Lieutenant Samoilov. As reported "Russian Spring", in the province of Idlib, this unit arrived a week before the treacherous attack of gangs.

Read more in the material: The military police of the Russian Federation entered the "capital" of the Islamists, the leaders of the militants call for resistance (+ PHOTO)

And all these days the terrorists have kept our heroes in suspense and constant combat readiness.

The platoon commander also said that the enemy fired mortars every day. In addition, drones reconnoitered the area, flying over the positions of our fighters.

The footage shows military equipment that was evacuated from a post near Idlib. The water carrier, hit by fragments, is no longer subject to restoration. A mine fired by terrorists exploded near him. Before encircling the observation post of Russian military personnel, the militants fired at it from artillery pieces.

Intensive shelling lasted about 1.5 hours. The bandits deliberately first destroyed the roads leading to the post in order to cut off the escape routes and the approach of mechanized reinforcements. After that, the enemy encircled the Russian military police and soldiers of the Armed Forces of the SAR.

During the shelling, several SAA fighters were slightly wounded. But the position of our heroes with every minute became more and more difficult. After mortar strikes, the terrorists launched an offensive using tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. But the situation was saved by the arrival of special forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The special operations forces were the first to come to the aid of those surrounded.

“It was in our direction that we counted about 4–5 tanks and the same number of infantry fighting vehicles. There were about 8-10 people in each BMP. Plus, the infantry was coming. I suppose that about 90-100 people went to our positions, ”Maxim, a MTR fighter, says in an interview.

As part of the Special Operations Forces, a release group has been created and is operating, its goal is to break through to units surrounded by the enemy. During this mission, the military personnel of this special group repelled several attacks by militants.

From the air, the rescue operation was covered by Su-25 Grach attack aircraft, which destroyed the heavy equipment of the terrorists, which greatly facilitated the breaking of the blockade. After powerful air strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces, a platoon of military police in armored vehicles left their positions. The participants of this battle admit that good military training, coherence of actions and a little luck helped them survive.

“Miracle plus our commander. My wife called and conveyed great respect to him, ”said corporal Andrey Vladykin.

“I wouldn't say it's luck. These are well-coordinated actions of personnel who have already been in such situations, ”the commander of the military police platoon, Senior Lieutenant Alexander Samoilov, did not agree.

The rescued platoon is currently at the military base on vacation. And the wounded soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army are in the hospital for treatment. Several servicemen of the Russian special forces, who were injured during the rescue mission, are also undergoing treatment.

This rescue operation is called unique. It was very difficult to win with a small number of sanitary losses in such difficult conditions. Recall that the Russian Ministry of Defense announced yesterday that part of the military was presented by the command for state awards.

*Terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation

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Reading 6 min. Published on 09/22/2017

Syria, news September 22, 2017. Syria, video: the first minutes of the battle between the military police and the terrorists near Hama. The Russian military is considered by the Ministry of Defense to be the main target of the terrorist offensive near Hama. Most likely, the militants planned to surround or even capture Russian military personnel in order to later use them as a tool in trade, trying to stop the offensive east of Deir ez-Zor.

Moreover, according to the Ministry of Defense, the actions of the militants were initiated by the American intelligence services. The essence of the claim against the Americans is the transfer of information to the jihadists, which allowed them to carry out an offensive operation. True, this could happen involuntarily, that is, out of stupidity. The only alarming thing is that Americans and radical Islamists still have communication channels through which top-secret information can voluntarily or involuntarily leave.

On the orders of the commander of the Russian grouping in Syria, Colonel General Sergei Surovikin, a special forces detachment advanced to the aid of the encircled detachment with massive support from the Aerospace Forces. The detachment that came out to help was led by the deputy head of the Russian center for reconciliation of the warring parties, Major General Viktor Shulyak. Syrian special forces also took part in the operation. Direct air support was carried out by two Su-25 attack aircraft, which attacked the accumulation of enemy manpower from extremely low altitudes.

As a result, the encirclement was broken through, and all Russian servicemen were evacuated without loss, however, three commandos were injured.

Prior to the arrival of the special forces, the military police unit fought off jihadist attacks for several hours, along with the friendly Muali tribe, which signed an agreement on a demilitarized zone. Corporal of the military police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Andrey Vladykin. According to him, "everything started according to the classics." “After the mortar attack, they began to attack with pickup trucks, pickup trucks with machine guns rolled out for direct fire,” he said. Two units of militant equipment were disabled even before the special forces approached.

After the successful completion of the special operation, the counteroffensive of the Syrian troops began, actively supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces. Parts of the 5th airborne assault corps of the Syrian government army completely liquidated the breakthrough of the jihadists and restored the lost position.

At the same time, the scale of enemy losses is amazing. 187 militants, about 850 terrorists, 11 tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, 46 pickups, five mortars, 20 trucks and 38 weapons depots were destroyed by air and artillery strikes in a day.

It is worth noting that on Thursday a powerful explosion rocked the center of Idlib. A mushroom cloud was visible. According to a number of data, it was an explosive plant that exploded, but what exactly caused the explosion has not yet been established.

In addition, the jihadists made an attempt to attack the positions of the Kurds in the Hasaka region, which they had not tried to do for a very long time.

Meanwhile, near Deir ez-Zor, on which An-Nusra tried to stop the attack by attacking the Russian military, units of the 113th and 137th brigades of the 17th division successfully crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates in the direction of the oil fields of al- Umar. And the 5th legion, with the support of artillery, first occupied the village of Marat, and on Thursday liberated the city of Mazlum, as a result of which the bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Euphrates was seriously expanded.

At the same time, government troops twice came under fire from unknown artillery, presumably from the Kurdish positions. However, the Kurds do not have multiple launch rocket systems; only American missile defense systems that previously worked on Raqqa can be located in this area.

Russian military representatives have already handed over to the American command located at the al-Udeid air base in Qatar a formal warning about the inadmissibility of shelling government troops from the position of the Kurds.

In turn, the American side accused the Russian Aerospace Forces of attacking the positions of the Kurds themselves and is actively presenting some wounded to it on Twitter.

Sooner or later it had to start, given the current system of command of US forces in the region. At the suggestion of President Donald Trump, they have received too much authority and autonomy - and too often they abuse this, trying to "make history."

If the leak of operational information about the location of Russian checkpoints near the province of Idlib by the Americans is confirmed, this could have far-reaching consequences. In just one day, Russian special forces, the Aerospace Forces and Syrian government forces literally filled up a small area of ​​​​the desert in the north-east of the province of Hama with the corpses of jihadists.

It is unlikely that a second attempt to capture the Russians will be perceived more calmly.

An-Nusra's counter-offensive from Idlib is very similar to agony. In this state, jihadists will snarl as brutally as possible and use any information that falls into their hands.

The video captures the moment of mortar attack by terrorists at a police post.

Judging by the footage, at that moment the military were in touch with the command post, however, due to the density of fire, they could not indicate the coordinates of the positions of the terrorists from which the shelling was carried out.

“Completely in a circle, completely in a circle, I can’t report. They are firing mortars from all sides. It just doesn’t stop,” one of the policemen in the video says.

Syria, video: the first minutes of the battle between the military police and the terrorists near Hama

The details of how the battle of the encircled Russian servicemen began was told by one of the military police officers.

“The task was very difficult, the militants went on the attack with lightning speed. Literally five minutes later they were already somewhere in 300-400 meters from our forward position. We had to fight back, fire from anti-tank weapons and grenade launchers. We, as part of the four head patrols, destroyed one infantry fighting vehicle with the enemy,” he said.

“Subsequently, there was a second wave of enemy offensive, they tried to get around us from the left flank. We regrouped and threw all our forces on the left flank. All this was under mortar and artillery fire,” the soldier added.

He also clarified that one and a half to two hours before the start of the militants' attack, shelling was going on at the positions of the Russian military police, which was the terrorists' artillery preparation before the offensive.

According to the serviceman, when they had practically no anti-tank weapons left, they saw that an enemy infantry fighting vehicle was moving in their direction. “The driver (BMP) was in the “stowed” position, that is, his head was sticking out. Due to this, we destroyed it and the BMP stopped literally 20 meters from our forward positions, ”he concluded.

The commander of the evacuation group, Lieutenant Colonel Valentin Kochesokov, told the details of the operation to rescue the Russian military from the ring of militants.

“After the report was received, the group commander decided to evacuate this post. I led the evacuation group that came to them. According to the evacuation plan, we had to meet at the agreed place, where we moved with the armored group, with cover, and helped them evacuate to the assembly point, ”said the lieutenant colonel.

He noted that the Russian servicemen, despite the incessant many hours of all-round shelling, did not succumb to panic, acted clearly and harmoniously, and competently repulsed the attacks of the militants.

“The morale was normal, fighting. There was no panic, people normally kept the defense, they acted clearly, according to the combat crew, they got out of the fire, ”Kochesokov said.

The commander of the evacuation group noted the importance of the support of Russian aviation and armored vehicles, which cleared the corridor and the release squad managed to break through the ring of terrorists and fight to withdraw the police from the encirclement.

Repulsing an enemy attack, withdrawing from the encirclement, destroying almost 900 terrorists, air support - the Russian Defense Ministry reported on a unique special operation in the area of ​​the Syrian city of Idlib. Together with a detachment of the Russian military police, local tribes held the defense, and as a result, the militants suffered a crushing defeat, and the participants in the operation were presented with state awards.

And a week has not passed since the signing of the agreement on the creation of a de-escalation zone in Syrian Idlib, as the militants of Jabhat al-Nusra, banned in Russia, went on the offensive in this area. According to the Ministry of Defense, the day before at eight in the morning, with the support of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the terrorists launched an attack on the positions of government troops east of the city of Hama. During the day they managed to wedge into the defense to a depth of 12 kilometers, and at the front, as the military says, up to 20 kilometers.

“According to reports, these offensives are initiated by US intelligence agencies to stop the successful advance of government troops east of Deir ez-Zor. At the same time, one of the main goals of the action of the militants was an attempt to capture a unit of the Russian military police in the amount of 29 servicemen who were performing a task at an observation post deployed in the area as control forces, de-escalation forces, ”said the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Sergei Rudskoy.

As a result, the unit was surrounded. For several hours, the military police platoon repulsed the attacks of the militants. The Ministry of Defense separately emphasizes that a detachment of the Moali tribe, which signed the ceasefire agreement, also fought along with the Russian military. At the headquarters of the grouping of Russian troops in Syria, they urgently prepared a group to break through the ring, including the Syrian special forces, and, of course, aviation.

“The terrorists were attacked by air strikes. The actions of the release squad were constantly supported by a pair of Su-25 attack aircraft, which attacked the militants' manpower and armored objects from extremely low altitudes. As a result, the encirclement was broken. And the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, fighting without loss, entered the area where government troops were located. During the operation, three servicemen of the special operations forces were injured. All participants in this unique operation are presented for state awards. In general, the measures taken by the Russian command, together with the Syrian General Staff, stopped the terrorist offensive. And they suffered significant damage,” said Sergei Rudskoy.

The militants, according to the Ministry of Defense, lost 11 tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, 46 pickup trucks, aircraft destroyed 38 weapons depots, and 850 terrorists were also killed in a day. The General Staff says: the Syrian troops launched a counteroffensive and practically regained their lost positions.

Experts attribute the attempted breakthrough of the militants precisely with the successful offensive of the government army and the allies - the day before they began to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Euphrates.

About 60 square kilometers have already been cleared of terrorists east of Deir ez-Zor, and at the same time, the Ministry of Defense says that the so-called armed opposition, surprisingly, is trying to prevent the liberation of Syria from the Islamic State group with the full support of the Western coalition , which, in turn, seems ready to do anything except the promised assault on Raqqa, this city has been called the capital of terrorists for more than one year.