Israel struck the locations of the Syrian air defense systems.

Tonight, the Israeli military again attacked Syria. According to available data, initially balloons were launched into the sky, which served as bait, and after the fire was opened on them by Syrian air defense systems, Israel tried to destroy their deployment sites, in particular, we are talking about Pantsir-S complexes located in the vicinity of Syrian capital.

Bring them down with no success

2 headed to south of # Damascus
& one to south east of the city
the 3 were downed by AA missiles

Turns out the 3 targets were reconnaissance balloons
They learned from Gaza pic.twitter.com/88wJSeNkjT

- Syrian Military Capabilities (@Syrian_MC) 17 May 2019 city

At the moment there is evidence that the attack by the Israeli military was completely repelled, while the continuation of the Israeli attack was impeded by Russian fighters that were raised into the air over the northern part of Damascus.

Official comments from the Israeli military on this matter have not yet been received, however, there is information that the Israeli attack was not coordinated with the Russian military, and moreover, Israel once again put civil airliners under attack from air defense systems, which, after the start of repelling attacks by Syrian air defense systems began to urgently change course.