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2022-04-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Russia claims Syria intercepted Israeli missile in attack near Damascus
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[IsraelTimes] No confirmation of assertion in state media by senior Russian military official, in comments made the same day Moscow lashed out at Israel over its statements on Ukraine invasion
A Russian military official claimed Syrian air defenses intercepted a missile that Israeli fighter jets allegedly fired at a target near Damascus Thursday night.
Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, one of Russia’s top commanders in Syria, said two Israeli F-16s flying over the Golan Heights each fired a precision-guided missile, according to state news agency TASS.
He added that the Syrian military shot down one of the missiles using a Russian-made Buk-2ME system, while the other struck a warehouse, causing damage but no injuries.
There was no independent confirmation of Zhuravlev’s claim. Damascus and Moscow, which is fighting on behalf of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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in the country’s civil war, regularly assert that Syria intercepts Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such claims.
Zhuravlev’s comments were reported by TASS on the same day that the Russian Foreign Ministry lashed out at Foreign Minister Yair Lapid after Israel joined other countries in voting to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, though it was not clear if they were linked.
Russia has previously publicly expressed "deep concern" over the Israeli strikes, which have continued despite the Russian criticism and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia — which intervened militarily on Assad’s behalf in 2015 — has also pledged coordination with Israel in order to continue to prevent their forces from clashing in Syria. 
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