Media: air defense forces repelled a missile attack on Damascus

“The air defense of Syria repelled a missile attack on Damascus,” the text says.

It is noted that rockets were fired from the "occupied territories".

It is clarified that one of the missiles fell 20 km southeast of the Syrian capital.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Major General Yuri Borenkov said that a detachment of militants of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham * group tried to break through the Syrian army's defenses in the direction of the settlement of Karratin al-Kebir in Idlib province.

* “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (“Jabhat Fath al-Sham”, “Front al-Nusra”, “Jabhat al-Nusra”) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.