Several drones flew to the base in the evening, the sixth of January. Air sirens raised the alarm, the Russian military fired at unmanned vehicles, several drones managed to knock down. It turned out that explosives had been attached to the aircraft, but not all of them managed to detonate. This is the second time in a week when the Russian base is subjected to a sudden mortar shelling of a mobile subversive group of militants.

On the part of the Russian military there are several victims. Probably mobile sabotage group of militants Igil operates near the province of Litakia.

As reported in URA-Inform, recently with the capital of Syria, at least 30 civilians were killed because of the bombing of Russian jet aircraft.