MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Two drones belonging to militants operating in Syria were destroyed while approaching the Russian airbase in Syria's Hmeimim on Tuesday, a high-ranking Russian military official said.
"Russian air defense systems detected and destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles belonging to militants ten kilometers away from the Hmeimim airfield at 8:00 p.m. yesterday," Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, said at a news briefing on Wednesday.