{"id":6447,"date":"2015-12-03T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:19:02","slug":"dec02-war-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/dec02-war-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Syria: Russia Paved Its Way to the Ground Operation Through the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Russian plane exploded over the Sinai and the terrorist attack in Paris, more and more often we hear\u00a0talks about the inevitability of the Russian army’s ground operation in Syria. <\/strong>Although the official Russian government is hesitant to admit it,\u00a0but more and more new military units of the Russian armed forces\u00a0appear on the Syrian map<\/strong>. Building up the\u00a0Russian group in Syria can be traced using\u00a0open sources – by the traffic of the Russian ships going through the Bosphorus and by the changes in the Russian fleet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In early September, activists of the InformNapalm international volunteer community analyzed the journeys\u00a0of the Russian ships<\/a> and suggested that the Russians were preparing a military operation in Syria. As a result, just two weeks after our article and\u00a0right after Putin’s speech at the UN Security Council, the military operation in Syria was started.<\/p>\n

And now InformNapalm, having analysed the information from open sources and personal data from the profiles of the Russian servicemen, will identify the locations of the\u00a0units which take\u00a0part in\u00a0the Russian inofficial ground military operation in Syria. We will also analyze the increase of the maritime traffic and name\u00a0the ships\u00a0involved in the transfer of weapons and equipment for the needs of both air and ground operations. Most of these data are reflected in the infographics\u00a0created\u00a0thanks to meticulous work of the Visuals<\/a> project.<\/p>\n

Syrian Express Goes at Full Throttle\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, two months after the launch of the Syrian campaign, we can make an assumption that Russia has already begun its ground operation in Syria, but has not officially announced it yet.<\/p>\n

In less than two months, the Russian ships made about 50 journeys through the Bosphorus. Compared with the beginning of the year, the monthly traffic has increased more than twofold.<\/p>\n

As before, almost 70% (33 out of 49) of the journeys were made by landing platform\/docks (LPD).<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of the operations in Syria, 17 journeys of LPDs\u00a0to Tartus have been recorded. As before, LPDs\u00a0of the Russian Black Sea Fleet take a more active part than other ships in this ‘Syrian traffic’.<\/p>\n