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Moscow, June 22, 2024, 22:43 - IA Regnum. A drone of the international coalition led by the United States attacked a truck in Syria from Iraq. As a result, Syrian citizens were injured, and there were also deaths, said Major General Yuri Popov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the Arab Republic.“The MQ-1C multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle, belonging to the so-called international anti-terrorist coalition, from Iraqi airspace without violating Syrian airspace, struck a truck moving in the area of the Bu Kemal settlement. As a result of the strike, Syrian citizens were killed and wounded,” the speaker clarified.
According to him, the UAV attacked the truck on June 21 around 22:30 Moscow time.
As Regnum reported, on May 8, Russian military police blocked an international coalition convoy in Syria, consisting of six American Bradley armored vehicles and two pickup trucks. This happened in the area of the village of Sarmoak-Faukani, Hasakah province. After this, the column turned around and left in the opposite direction.
The professionalism of the pilot of the Russian Su-35 fighter helped prevent a collision in the sky with American drones in the Syrian province of Homs. A dangerous convergence of three modular reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles MQ-9 Reaper of the “coalition” occurred on the afternoon of June 21 over the village of Es Sukhne at altitudes from 7 thousand to 8 thousand meters. At this time, a Su-35 of the Russian Aerospace Forces was making a scheduled flight in Syrian airspace.