Details: as the Russian military broke through the encirclement in Syria
Russian military cooperation with the Syrian allies on the morning of 20 November near the city of Idlib in Northwest Syria for several hours fought against the vastly superior in numbers detachment of the terrorist organization “Dzhebhat-EN-Nusra”. The military said the details of the heroic battle.
The Russian military told the details of the rescue of the platoon of Russian military police, who was surrounded by 20 September in the area of de-escalation “Idlib” in North-West Syria.
According to them, 19 Russian servicemen, 12 Syrians, bronekapsuly “Typhoon”, a water truck and “Ural” at dawn, came under fire dozens of times superior forces of the insurgents, not a terrorist organization “Dzhebhat-EN-Nusra”. The Russians with the allies took refuge from mortar fire and took up a perimeter defense. The unequal battle lasted for several hours, reports NTV.
It all started on the classics. Artillery fire, mortar fire, heavy. Waited the shelling. The offensive began with the support of heavy machine guns from fighters “dzhebhat an-Nusra”.
“Thanks to the skillful actions of our commander, Lieutenant Samoilova took up defensive positions, the first wave repelled. During the battle, was disabled two vehicles. After the mortar attack, they began to advance with the pickups for direct fire rolled the pickup trucks with machine guns. Began firing machine guns at our positions, told the corporal of the military police Andrey Vladykin.
“One of the main goals of the actions of the militants was an attempt to capture the units of the military police, carrying out tasks at the observation point deployed in the area as the forces of control the forces of de-escalation”, — said the head of the main operations Directorate of the General staff Sergey rudskoy.