In the last hours, Israeli authorities have announced that, in a night operation, Their warships have destroyed the Syrian fleet as part of a “large-scale” military operation.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense has justified that the attack was aimed guarantee Israeli security and eliminate possible threats from Syriawhere .
“The Israel Defense Forces are working in Syria over the past few days to damage and destroy strategic capabilities that threaten the State of Israel. “The Navy worked tonight to destroy the Syrian fleet and with great success.”explained the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, in statements from a naval base in Haifa.
However, This attack could have collaterally affected the Russian fleet present in the area. In this sense, the Ukrainian military portal Defense Express has reported the existence of satellite images on Monday morning (December 9) suggesting that The Russian fleet had not yet left its base in the Syrian port of Tartus. at the time of the attack.
Specifically, the image published by an OSINT analyst shows that the frigate Admiral Grigorovichthe fragata Almirante Gorshkovand submarine and the petrolero Kaliningradneft They were eight kilometers from the coast in the port of Tartus on the morning of December 9.
