Shcherbitsky said that “illegal armed groups in the Idlib de-escalation zone continue to attempt to attack the Russian Khmeimim airbase using attack unmanned aerial vehicles”: on July 11, “around 22:30 unmanned aerial vehicles were detected by Russian air defense systems approaching the area of the Russian air base Khmeimim from the north-east direction. "
“The fire of Russian air defense systems destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles of militants in strike equipment at a distance of 5 km from the air base,” RIA Novosti quotes Shcherbitsky.
He also said that there were no injuries or material damage.
In June, Shcherbitsky reported that air defense systems of Russia and Syria shot down two militant drones near the Khmeimim air base on June 22.