The Russian Defence minister, Sergey Shoigu, announced today the start of a “great operation of massive attacks against the ISIS and in the Face of Conquest of the Levant (ex Al Nusra) in the provinces syrian Homs and Idleb“, with the participation of the aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”.
For the first time in history, the only aircraft carrier of Russian Navy, “Admiral Kuznetsov”, has entered in combat action, reported Shoigu to the Russian president, VladImir Putin, at a meeting held in the Russian city of Sochi, on the shores of the Black sea, according to local media.
Another ship Russian deployed in waters syrian Mediterranean, the frigate “Admiral Grigoróvich”, attacked with cruise missiles “Kalibr” terrorist targets in the arab country.
meanwhile, fighter-bombers, which took off from the aircraft carrier Russian in the Mediterranean sea shelled positions of jihadi groups in Syria, announced Tuesday the Russian ministry of Defense.
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Along with this offensive, stepped up attacks by the Assad regime on the devastated rebel-held Aleppo, where they were attacked at least three hospitals.
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When Moscow mobilized its fleet of war –with the Kuznetsov to the head– to the coasts syrian, Europe harshly criticized this initiative as they consider that the aircraft carrier would be used to continue bombing Aleppo, where it develops an appalling humanitarian crisis. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped between rebel groups and the regime in a deadly trap, without food or medicines.
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According to Moscow, the operational aircraft carrier Russian was focused to other regions and was not involved in the bombing of Aleppo.
The bombing of this city reached three neighborhoods, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain. There was No information about victims in the first place.
fighter Jets launched missiles, and various helicopters dropped bombs barrel on the east side of the largest city in Syria, said the activist Basaaa al-Halaby.
Russia said in mid-October that it would halt the bombing to allow the output of rebels and civilians in east Aleppo. The rebels refused to take advantage of the offer and the United Nations failed to negotiate the delivery of aid to the area besieged.
Several doctors and patients of three hospitals in the rebel areas of northern Syria have been injured in the past 24 hours due to shelling, said Tuesday the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH).
The hospital of the town of Awijel, in the west of the province of Aleppo, was bombed last night, said the OSDH, which could not say whether it was planes syrians or russians.
earlier, the hospitals of Kafr Naha and Atareb had been blown up by bombs.
The hospital in Atareb was bombed five times , and the attacks destroyed operating rooms and pharmacy, damaged ambulance and injuring medical personnel, said the source.
The OSDH was unable to give up the moment an exact figure of the number of wounded.
The organizations of defense of human rights accuse the syrian government and its ally russia deliberately targeting hospitals in areas controlled by the rebels.
The governments of Syria and Russia reject these accusations.
More than 300,000 people were killed in Syria since the outbreak of the civil war, in January of 2011.
(Source: agencies)
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