Ukraine has reportedly helped smuggle large quantities of drone parts into Idlib under the guise of commercial goods
A group of 250 Ukrainian military experts has arrived in Syria’s northern Idlib governorate to train extremist militants in the use and manufacture of drones, a source told Sputnik on 17 September.
“There is confirmed information that the number of Ukrainian military experts who arrived in Idlib has reached about 250, they have been distributed to industrial workshops and several sites in the city of Idlib and the countryside of Jisr al-Shughur, to manufacture drones,” the source said.
“The Ukrainian military is training militants affiliated with the Turkistan Islamic Party under the command of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham for the use of drones, and technologies to develop them with regard to the ability to increase flight speeds, photography and targeting,” it added.
The source goes on to say that hundreds of drones “were shipped to Idlib in batches as spare parts and [under the guise] of commercial civilian goods.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on 12 September, accused Ukrainian intelligence agents of “actively recruiting Islamist militants” in northwest Syria and the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa “to carry out terrorist operations.”
🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle
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Syria's army regrouped to the south to protect the city of Hama but once again withdrew after a brief battle in which the extremists employed large numbers of Ukrainian-supplied drones.
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