[olisipo]

   

Airbus Defence and Space imagery shows that the number of Russian Su-34 strike aircraft deployed
to Humaymim air base in Syria increased from four to eight between 1 and 7 December. 

Russia deploys additional Su-34s to Syria

http://www.janes.com/article/56588/russia-deploys-additional-su-34s-to-syria

[olisipo]

Explosão de um grande transporte de material bélico do regime por um TOW de Jaysh al-Nasr na planície de Al-Ghab.

[Pedro E.]

Syrian Forces Wining Battles in Aleppo Province with Russian T-90 Tanks
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940923001034

[olisipo]

Top Russian general says Moscow backs opposition offensive in Syria

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-top-russian-general-says-moscow-backs-opposition-offensive-in-syria-2155501

According to General Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia's Army General Staff. Moscow aids the main opposition rebel group to president Basher al-Assad, the Free Syrian Army, with 30-40 air sorties per day as well as weapons, ammunitions and material support.

The FSA has denied the announcement of Gerasimov

http://reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0TX1J420151214?irpc=932

[mafets]

http://turkishnavy.net/2015/12/13/russian-warship-fires-warning-shots-to-a-turkish-fishing-vessel/

Today the Russian destroyer Smetlivy and the Turkish fishing boat Geçiciler Balıkçılık got dangerously close. The Russian warship had to fire warning shots to the unarmed Turkish fishing vessel to turn away. The incident happened 22 kilometers east of the Greek Island Lemnos in the Norther Aegean.
Earlier today the crew of Russia’s “Smetlivy” destroyer was forced to use firearms to prevent a collision with a Turkish seiner vessel in the northern part of the Aegean Sea, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Russian Frigate Uses Firearms to Prevent Collision With Turkish Vessel in Aegean Sea
The destoyer’s crew spotted an approaching Turkish ship at a distance of approximately one kilometer (0.6 miles). The seiner did not attempt to establish radio contact with the Russian ship and did not respond to signal lamps or flairs.
Upon the Turkish seiner’s dangerously close approach to the anchored “Smetlivy” at a distance of 600 meters (656 yards), the Russian patrol ship fired a shot beyond the hitting range of the firearms to avoid collision.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Turkish vessel immediately changed its course and, without contacting the Russian crew, kept moving by the “Smetlivy” destroyer at a distance of 540 meters (590 yards).
The above was the Russian version of the event. The Turkish version is different:
However, Muzaffer Gecici, who is the owner of the Turkish vessel Geciciler Balikcilik, has flatly denied the Russian claims saying that his boat and the Russian warship had a distance of at least 1 mile (1.6 km).
He also stated that the Russian warship was not on the move and nobody heard any warning shots from the destroyer, adding that his vessel is technologically well-equipped and that he has already given footage from the incident to the Turkish Coast Guard.
Meanwhile, the Russian ministry has released another statement after it summoned Turkey’s military naval attache in Moscow, Rear Admiral Ahmet Gunes, saying that the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov had “a conversation” with Gunes. 
The statement has puzzlingly tried to link the latest incident in the Aegean with Russia’s “counter-terrorism tasks in Syria” blaming Turkey with “reckless actions” against “the Russian military contingent” in the country.
The statement has also claimed that the Turkish vessel, which is a small civilian fisher boat, was able to provoke the Russian military guard ship Smetlivy.
The Russian Navy should start to use acoustic hailing devices. These devices have a very powerful audio output capability with a vert focused narrow beam. They can make your message, be heard in large distances miles away. With the aid of these devices a warship can hail and warn any other vessel in her vicinity that does not respond to radio contact, to signal lamps or flairs before starting to shot.

Não devem gostar do cheiro a peixe... 

Entretanto: http://turkishnavy.net/

Foreign Warship On Bosphorus 2015 (Part 50)

Saudações

[olisipo]

UN condems "unacceptable attacks" on civilians around Damascus

http://news.yahoo.com/un-condemns-unnacceptable-attacks-civilians-near-damascus-112854054.html

Stephen O'Brien, UN aid chief, condemned today in Damascus, at the end of an official visit to Syria, attacks on civilians in and near the Syrian capital as "unacceptable", a day after more than 50 were killed (...)

[Pedro E.]

Le pétrole de Daech embarrasse les négociants genevois
http://enquete.lematindimanche.ch/petrole-daech/

[olisipo]

 

Russia is bringing its big guns to Syria. Literally...

http://theweek.com/articles/593126/russia-bringing-big-guns-syria-literally

[Pedro E.]

Syrian Army Fully Controls Key Airbase near Damascus
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=244605&cid=23&fromval=1&frid=23&seccatid=20&s1=1

[olisipo]

 

Importante ofensiva de Jund al-Aqsa na região de Hama. A notícia em Al Masnar News, pró-Assad

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jund-al-aqsa-renews-massive-offensive-in-northern-hama/

[Pedro E.]

O exército sírio, com a ajuda da força aérea russa, prossegue a sua ofensiva para retomar a histórica cidade de Palmira. Tem-se desenrolado várias batalhas em seu redor. Como se observa no mapa já várias localidades próximas estão sob controlo das forças sírias. Vai ser uma questão de tempo até Tadmur ser libertada.Como já disse noutro comentário, a minha expectativa é que seja antes da Primavera.

[Pedro E.]

What it takes to smuggle information out of IS strongholds in Syria
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/12/syria-journalists-media-activists-killed-isis-der-ez-zor.html

[olisipo]

 

Russian planes taking off today from Hymeymin (Latakia) base to bomb Syrian cities and towns

[Pedro E.]

habitantes de Homs festejam com exército sírio o fim da ocupação da cidade pelos terroristas. Imagens comoventes.

[Pedro E.]

Kerry’s visit organized at an urgent request of US — Russian Foreign Ministry
http://tass.ru/en/politics/843918