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Russia’s defense chief arrives in Syria to review naval drills
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MOSCOW, 16 February 2022, (TON): Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu traveled to Syria to inspect naval drills involving 15 warships and 30 aircraft in the eastern Mediterranean.
The drills are part of a surge of Russian military activity amid a standoff with the West over security in Europe.
Russia said “earlier it had deployed fighter jets with hypersonic missiles to its Syrian air base for the naval exercises.”
Moscow announced on Jan. 20 that its navy would stage an array of exercises involving all its fleets from the Pacific to the Atlantic, drawing on 10,000 servicemen, 140 warships and dozens of planes.
Meanwhile, a bomb attached to a bus carrying Syrian troops in Damascus exploded on Tuesday morning, killing one soldier and wounding 11.
The blast occurred during rush hour at a customs roundabout near the capital’s landmark Omayyad Square, according to the report. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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