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We came to Syrian Arab Army positions in al-Kabun today.
Fights are going on face to face here.
Enemies are at a distance of 5 to 100 meters apart.
Militant movement has been spotted in this building and they're immediately fired upon.
"It's all militant territory in front of us and further there"
We are on the frontline within al-Kabun.
The distance to militants is 20-25 meters here.
We can even see the curtains they have arranged in a nearby building
to hide their movements.
We move on.
This is a hidden position.
Soldiers have spotted militant movement at the street.
Commanders understood that militants do reconnaissance.
A firing point has been equipped right in the wardrobe of a flat to avoid giving out our work.
And when the militants decided to capture this building fire from this point has calmed them down.
School is under terrorists' control.
All of the buildings around it are interconnected together.
There's a large chunk of work there to cleanup this block with minimal losses.
The farther building is the Ministry of Water Resources.
It is a militant target for more than a year now.
"They fled from us to school when we were attacking"
"These are militant corpses on the neutral ground"
"Rapid advance of the Army units has forced the militants to abandon the bodies of those killed"
Moving to another direction.
"This is a mark of a militant mortar shell. Their position is 5 meters away behind the [sand]bags"
There are militants in this basement 5 meters away.
Soldiers control their sector for hours waiting for the enemy knowing that those are at hand.
There are militants everywhere within these concrete ruins.
These carpets have been hung by militants to hide their movements.
We've been shown rooms with militant food then.
Countries of food origin are Qatar and Turkey.
This vacuum packaged bread can be kept for up to a year.
It was produced in Turkey.
Canned spam comes from Qatar.
We move to the next direction.
"All, all of this was taken by storm!"
"The command has ordered to plant landmines at the ground floor and retreat covertly
knowing that the militants prepare to attack"
"When the militants increased activity they were blown up"
"And ceiling that fell down has deprived those remaining of a cover"
"and soldiers have destroyed a large gang of militants by dense fire"
"Look what they've been using to construct their barricades and tunnels"
Militants have started to dig out another tunnel in this basement of a building under construction.
They were setting up cars to carry out acts of terror here too.
The bandits were mining the car covertly
by putting explosives under its skin and within the hull.
A car could be fully disarmed only by taking it apart completely.
Who knows how many civilian lives were saved
by this car being interecepted.
Andrey Filatov, Victor Kuznetsov, Igor Nadyrshin, Marat Musin. ANNA-News. Damascus.