MOSCOW. Aug 8 (Interfax) - Aircraft of the so-called international antiterrorist coalition led by the United States continue to cause dangerous situations in Syria's sky, carrying out flights in breach of the deconfliction protocols and with violations of Syrian airspace, the Russian military said.
"Over the past 24 hours, the coalition committed 11 breaches of the December 9, 2019 deconfliction protocols, related to flights of unmanned aerial vehicles that were not agreed with the Russian side," deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit said at a press briefing on Monday.
The flights of coalition unmanned aerial vehicles in those areas were not deconflicted yet again, Kulit said.
"Russian pilots acted in a highly professional manner and took timely measures to prevent collisions with the coalition drones," he said.
Furthermore, two F-16 tactical fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force, acting from the Golan Heights area, fired six guided bombs on military warehouses in the Damascus province from 2:15 a.m. to 2.23 a.m. on August 7 without entering Syria's airspace, Kulit said.
"Three air bombs were destroyed by anti-aircraft guided missiles fired from a Pantsir-S system of the Air Defense Force of the Syrian Arab Republic. Four Syrian soldiers were killed and another four were injured as a result of the Israeli airstrike," Kulit said.