Moscow expressed concern over the information that the US military was driving unmanned aerial vehicles that attacked the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria. Our experts will sort out everything and draw the necessary conclusions, the Kremlin reported. "This is very disturbing data. Of course, no one here should have any doubts that all conclusions will be made, the corresponding analysis will be carried out by our military ", - press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov told journalists (quoted by RT). According to him, only our armed forces can provide all the necessary information about the incident.. Although it cannot be "ruled out" that these messages will have political implications. Peskov noted that the situation around the attack on Hamim could be one of the topics of negotiations between the leaders of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Experts do not doubt that the drones attacking the Hamim base were controlled by the Americans. Our military could learn about it using intelligence channels, undercover and technical means.. "The main goal of the Americans was to force all means of protecting the base, including air defense systems, into a combat mode and conduct large-scale electronic reconnaissance, provoking Russia into combat modes of use, by means of such a massive raid," the editor-in-chief told Vzglyadu. of the magazine "National Defense" Igor Korotchenko. In his opinion, the Pentagon will now have to answer the Russian accusations.. On the night of January 6 of this year, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation prevented the attacks of 13 drone drone attacks on Khmeimim and Tartus bases in Syria.
Hot on the heels of the defense ministry said that the technical solutions used in the drones "could only be obtained from one of the countries".
Later, the representative of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Kenneth Mackenzie assured that the United States was not involved in the incident. This morning, Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin announced that our specialists had established: the drones were controlling the attackers on Chemeimim from the United States Poseidon-8 reconnaissance aircraft. When the drones had to deal with the action of Russian electronic suppression systems, the Poseidon-8 "took over the manual control".