Although they carried out about 46 thousand air and ground strikes, war of the Syrian regime and Russian guarantor over Idlib fails militarily, succeeds in killing hundreds of Syrians and displacing about half million of them
The heaviest military operation by the Russians and the regime within “Putin – Erdogan” area has entered its 65th day, since they start on the 30th of April 2019, this operation which is considered a failure by any measure, where despite Russia’s unlimited support for the regime forces and their loyal militias under the leadership of Suhail al-Hasan, known as the “Tiger,” in addition to the fact that the regime forces, its warplanes, helicopters, and the Russian partner’s warplanes carried out about 46000 air and ground strikes (10218 raids and barrel bombs and 35720 missile and artillery shells), but they could not (i.e. the regime forces) advance except in 20 areas within the countryside of Hama and Idlib, and they are: they are al-Qassabiyyeh, Humayrat, al-Hardana, al-Qaroutiyyah, Qiratah, Qal’aat al-Madiq, al-Karakat, Twinah, Kafr Nabudah, al-Bana, Tal Osman, al-Mestriha, al-Sharia, Bab al-Taqa, al-Jabriya, Tal Hawash, al-Tawba, Sheikh Idris, al-Muhajreen, al-Hamraa, and Hwaiz.
On the contrary, they continue to fail in recovering 2 small villages located on the strategic highway of al-Suqaylabiyah – Muhradah, where after the rebel and Islamic factions and the jihadi groups advanced and controlled the villages of Tal Meleh and al-Jabin on the 6th of June 2019; the regime forces and the Russians have not been able to recover these 2 villages, despite thousands of air and ground strikes and tens of unsuccessful attempts and attacks, as well as regime forces’ loss during the battle of the 3 villages for about 300 members.
However, the operation of the Russians and the regime has been successful in other aspects: displacing about 500000 Syrian civilians from their homes and areas against the backdrop of the barbaric shelling by the Russians and the regime, where large part of them are staying out in the open in nearby agricultural lands, others displaced to their relatives in Idlib and the northern and northwestern countryside of Aleppo, and another section resorted to the border camps with Iskenderun, also the Russians and the regime have been able to destroy 17 hospitals and health centers since the start of the most violent escalation, mostly by Russian strikes, and they are: Kiwan hospital in Kafr Aweed, the hospitals of al-Sham Central Hospital, Kafr Nubl Surgical Hospital, al-Sayyidah Mariam, al-Khatib, the Orient in Kafr Nubl, Nabd al-Hayat Hospital in Hass, al-Tah Hospital, Sarja Hospital, Hospital 112 in Qal’aat al-Madiq, al-Maghara Hospital and Sham Hospital in al-Lataminah town, as well as health centers in Kafr Nabudah, Ma’aret Hurmah, al-Hbit and al-Rakaya, in addition to using internationally forbidden materials by the regime forces during their ground bombardment, which burned thousands of dunums of the agricultural lands south and west of Khan Shaykhun city, al-Hbit, Abdeen, outskirts of Kafrsajna, Kafr Ain, and other areas within the southern sector of Idlib countryside, and Hersh al-Skibiyyeh, Tal Hadaya, and the ICARDA in the southern countryside of Aleppo, as well as al-Lataminah in the northern countryside of Hama, not to mention the looting operations by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in the areas they controlled; through robbing houses, shops, and agricultural crops of the civilians.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad and his Russian partner have not had enough with just all of that, so they claimed the lives of hundreds of Syrian civilians, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the 30th of April 2019, the date of start of the most violent escalation in terms of aerial and ground bombardment, shelling, and targeting since Putin – Erdogan agreement, until today, Wednesday, the death of 507 civilians including 118 children and 98 citizen women, and they are: 61 including 18 children and 16 women, another woman and two of her children, were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 43 including 9 women and 5 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 332 including 86 children, 62 women, and 4 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 71 people including 11 women and 9 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces.