Syria News January 17, 2020. The Syrian army knocks out fighters from Aleppo, the Russian military sent a large convoy to northern Syria
The latest news of the fighting in Syria on January 17, 2020
Attack on militants in Aleppo launched
Syrian government forces and aircraft of the Russian aerospace forces began to strike at the western and southwestern parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo. Serious militant forces are concentrated here, the elimination of which will begin to take control of the M-5 highway, which is today a strategic goal, since it will cut off terrorists from supplies of Turkish weapons and ammunition, and will also make it possible to quickly transfer forces from south to north Arab Republic.
At the moment, only a number of small areas have been controlled, however, experts believe that the Syrian army will be able to realize its plans in the next 1,5 months.
Large Russian convoy sent to northern Syria
The Russian military sent a large convoy of military equipment to northern Syria. As follows from data from a number of sources, which, incidentally, is confirmed by photo and video materials, we are talking about more than 50 vehicles, including armored vehicles, fuel tanks, army trucks, etc.
a Russian military convoy exited from Qamishli airport towards the Tal Tamr area .. where the American forces stopped the convoy for several minutes before the Russian armored vehicles made their way to the Hasakah highway - Aleppo pic.twitter.com/2lMutAoFQk
- YNMS (@ynms79797979) January 17, 2020
According to some reports, the equipment was sent to the area of Kamyshli airport, where the second Russian military air base is located in the territory of the Arab Republic, however, at the moment, no official comments have been made on this subject.