MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/. The US-led coalition’s aircraft violated Syria’s airspace in the al-Tanf area ten times during the past day, Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said on Monday.
"Aircraft of the so-called international anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States continues to create dangerous situation that may cause air accident or incidents and escalate the situation in Syria’s airspace," he said. "Two pairs of the coalition’s F-15 and a pair of Typhoon fighter jets, as well as two pairs of A-10 Thunderbolt attack bombers violated Syria’s airspace in the al-Tanf area, across which international air routes run, ten times during the day."
According to Ignasyuk, three violations of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019 linked with the flights by the US-led coalition unmanned aerial vehicles were reported in Syria in the past 24 hours.
He also said that two shelling attacks on the positions of Syrian government troops by Jabhat al Nusra and Islamic Party of Turkestan (both outlawed in Russia) terrorists were reported in the Idlib de-escalation zone. One Syrian soldier was wounded as a result of artillery fire at government positions near the settlement of Kafr Nebel in the Idlib governorate.