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Report: Russia says ballistic ‘objects’ fired in Mediterranean – Middle East Israel News Broadcast | Haaretz.

Russian news agencies do not say who had carried out the launch but add that projectiles fell into the sea; the Russian Defense Ministry declines to comment.

A ship in the Mediterranean. Illustrative. Photo by AFP

Russian radar detected the launch of two ballistic “objects” towards the eastern Mediterranean from the central part of the sea on Tuesday, Russian news agencies quoted the Defense Ministry as saying.

The projectiles fell into the sea, state-run Russian news agency RIA cited a source in Damascus as saying.

Russia’s embassy in Syria said there was no sign of a missile attack or explosions in Damascus, according to the Itar-Tass news agency. A Damascus resident told Haaretz he had not heard anything that might indicate a strike on the capital.

The Interfax news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying the launch was detected at 10:16 A.M. Moscow time (0616 GMT) by an early warning radar station at Armavir, near the Black Sea, which is designed to detect missiles from Europe and Iran.

The agencies did not say who had carried out the launch and whether any impact had been detected. The ministry declined comment to Reuters.

The Israeli military said that it is “not aware” of any missile launch in the area.

“The trajectory of these objects goes from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea toward the eastern part of the Mediterranean coast,” Interfax quoted the ministry spokesman as saying.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had informed President Vladimir Putin of the launch.

A ministry official had earlier criticized the United States for deploying warships in the Mediterranean close to Syria.

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