Turkey failed to secure a turnaround on the eve of trades with Putin
The Turkish army failed to provide a turning point in the fighting in the Syrian province of Idlib, where Ankara’s initial successes through the use of combat drones resulted in the loss of several expensive UAVs.
Military correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny reported that the Turks lost from 1 to 3 attack vehicles on February 9.
The Turkish "drone attack" apparently began after Russian trainers received orders to end the air dominance of drones attacking the Syrian army.
“Air defense and electronic warfare are now covering the SAA from the air. But they turned on with some delay. These couple of days cost the Syrians heavy losses and generally demoralized the soldiers. It can be assumed that time was spent making a decision and deploying the system,” says military correspondent Igor Dimitriev in his blog.
The loss of several drones is painful for Turkey, writes the Major and General Telegram channel, which is considered close to the Russian security forces.
“If anyone thinks that Turkey can churn out these UAVs like shawarma at a bazaar, they are very mistaken. Their price is insane, their quantity is limited, a certain psychological and propaganda effect was achieved at the first stage with their help, but now it is fading away. And drones are already running out, and the Syrians quickly adapted to them.
“Peremoga”, as usual, is only on Twitter, and even then – not so much from the Turks, but from the stupid “bot farm” still financed by Poroshenko...
In reality, the Turkish army will no longer be able to create any strategic turning point near Idlib. All this is Erdogan’s price-filling for bargaining with Putin on March 5, where, most likely, almost certainly, they will agree,” the publication says.
Turkey failed to secure a turning point ahead of negotiations with Putin.