Israel Strikes Trample on US and Russian ‘Red Lines’
While Washington insists that Ukraine needs to respect Putin’s red lines to avoid escalation, Israel stomped all over them by blowing up the Kremlin’s largest overseas air base
In an impressive military operation on Thursday that thumbed a nose at US and Russian nuclear arsenals, Israel’s armed forces hit the Kremlin’s main air base in the Middle East with a devastating missile strike, almost certainly without asking permission from anyone inside the Beltway first.
At least 30 Israeli naval missiles smashed into the Russian air base at Khmeimim near the Syrian port city Latakia during the early hours, probably targeting cargo storage facilities there, according to a report by the military analytical group defence.arabic.com.
The Beruit-based media group Al-Modon reported “huge explosions” at an ammunition depot inside the Russian base, with some sources saying the attacking weapons were drones not missiles.
The raid was almost certainly Israel’s first-ever conventional strike against the notorious airfield which has been operated and effectively owned by Russia since from early on at the start of its operations in Syria.
In 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria President Bashar Al-Assad agreed Moscow’s military could deploy rent-free to the site and were granted a permanent lease. Since then, the IDF may have carried out isolated attacks on it and on Russian service personnel there with drones, local news reports said, but never with dozens of missiles carrying powerful warheads.
The base is the Russian Air Force’s main hub for its Middle East combat operations. According to Moscow-controlled media it is protected by state-of-the-art Russian air defense systems including the S-400 heavy anti-aircraft missile.
Local media citing video and audio recordings of the attack indicated the Israeli missiles arrived in two waves, penetrating the Russian defensive umbrella and setting off powerful explosions inside the airfield perimeter.
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