Russian military: Syrian army repels terror offensive that took advantage of U.S. strike, kills 150 attackers

Sputnik
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:06 UTC

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Militants took advantage of the US missile strike on a Syrian airbase and attacked the government army from the south-western direction. All their attacks were repelled, over 150 terrorists were killed, chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi said at a news briefing on Tuesday.

"Having taken advantage of the US cruise missile strike on the Shai'rat airbase, used by Syrian aviation for actions near Hama and Palmyra, terrorists launched counter-attacks against government troops from the south-western direction. All their attacks were repelled, two battle tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles and eight trucks with heavy machine-guns, as well as over 150 terrorists were destroyed," Rudskoi said.

Comment: So aside from the positive Western media response, and the deaths of some dozen or so Syrian troops and civilians, these are the effects of Trump's attack on the Shai'rat base:

• the base was back in use a day after the attack (the terrorists won't like that)
• Russia promised to beef up Syria's air defenses (Israel and the U.S. won't like that)
• Russia backed out of their deconfliction agreement regarding U.S. air operations over Syria (the U.S. coalition won't like that)
• Syria has slapped back the attacks of the terrorists who thought they could take advantage of a moment of weakness (all of the above parties won't like that)

Draw your own conclusions.