Priest Dmitry, Assistant to the Commander of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria for Work with Believer Servicemen, held a service for Orthodox servicemen at the military airfield in Et-Tabqa in the province of Raqqa. This was reported by the Voenkory Russian Spring Telegram channel.
It is explained that previously there was a US military base, which the American command abandoned in 2019. Prior to that, the airfield was held by the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia). Now the Russian aviation commandant's office operates at the airport.
In April, it was reported that the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria killed about 200 militants. Combat aircraft struck a terrorist base northeast of Palmyra. Deputy Head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the SAR, Rear Admiral Alexander Karpov. explained that the Russian military received and confirmed information about the location of the camouflaged base. As a result of the strike, two militant shelters, 24 pickup trucks with machine guns and about half a ton of ammunition and spare parts for assembling explosive devices were destroyed.
