ISIS was able to achieve all these gains despite massive airstrikes by the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces. Only Russian warplanes and helicopters have delivered over 150 airstrikes on ISIS terrorists near Palmyra since Saturday. On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that eleven battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, 31 cars with heavy machineguns, and over 300 militants were destroyed.
Government forces are now regrouping and deploying reinforcements in the area west of Palmyra and conducting a pre-emptive shelling of ISIS units before the counter-attack.
ISIS has a 4,000-strong attack force in the area and is readying to continue the advance. In Palmyra it has seized a high number of military equipment from government forces and Russian military advisers.
The breakthrough and rapid advancement of the ISIS took place due to fundamental mistakes of commanders of units of the Syrian Army and the NDF, deployed in the Palmyra area, who just let their guard down. They did not pay due attention to fortification activities, processes of equipping positions with engineering and combat hardware, as well as were carelessness during tactical reconnaissance and assessment of the forces and means of attackers. As a result, commanders did not report the all necessary information to the higher command in Damascus on time, thereby, deluding it. However, this fact does not remove the responsibility from the central command and the Russian assist and advise mission.
There are several reasons, which explain the emergence of so many mistakes at one and the same time:
- Wrong informing from outlying areas;
- Negligence in reconnaissance;
- Focusing of the attention on the military operation in the city of Aleppo;
- Unexpected redeployment of new ISIS units from Iraq to Syria, as well as involvement of the most experienced ISIS commanders of the senior and middle levels in the offensive;
- Unexpected large number of suicide bombers, involved in the operation.
SouthFront
Η μηπως την περιοχη την παρακολουθουσαν οι ΗΠΑ και δεν ενημερωσαν κανεναν;Αυτο ειπε το ΡΤ οτι δηλωσε ο Λαβρωφ.Τωρα το κατα ποσο ισχυει....
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ΔιαγραφήΓιατί όμως δεν διαμαρτύρεται κανείς που το ΣΑ ή ο ΟΗΕ (φορέας της ΟΥΝΕΣΚΟ) ή «η πολιτισμένη Δύση» δεν ζήτησε "κατάπαυση του πυρός" όπως ζητάνε όλοι οι Δυτικοί για το ανατολικό Χαλέπι, τρεις φορές την ημέρα;;; Και αυτό το λέω καθώς η ΟΥΝΕΣΚΟ έχει -υποτίθεται- τη Παλμύρα υπό τη προστασία της (!). Εκχώρησαν την εντολή τους στους ντζιχαντιστές;;;
Οι "πολιτισμενοι δυτικοι"(και οχι μονο) λενε οτι αυτο που εγινε στην Παλμυρα,ειναι αποδειξη οτι ο Ασαντ και ο Πουτιν,σκοτωνουν αθωους στο Χαλεπι και δεν ασχολουνται με τους τζιχαντιστες,παρα μονο με τους "μετριοπαθεις επαναστατες",τωρα αν κατι τετοιο το πιστευουν και οι ιδιοι,δεν μπορω να το ξερω...
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