MOSCOW, April 25. /TASS/. Russia’s General Staff has confirmed two drones launched by militants were destroyed near the Hmeymim air base in Syria on Tuesday evening.

"At 20:00 on Tuesday Russian air defense planes spotted and destroyed two drones launched by militants. The drones were ten kilometers away," the chief of the General Staff’s main operations directorate, Colonel-General Sergey Rudskoy, told a news briefing on Wednesday.