" In plain English this means that the US and Daesh have lost the war ." - the Saker

Mainstream media still keeping mum about this very important development!

A lot of people didn't believe us, or the Russian Defense Ministry. Turns out we were right.

This post first appeared on Russia Insider

On Wednesday evening, we broke the almost unbelievable story that the Russian Defense Ministry was claiming that:

A) ‘US Secret Services’ had directed a major offensive against Russian - Syrian forces,

A devastating blow to US proxies and their CIA handlers

B) a goal was the capture of 29 Russian peacekeepers,

C) the attack was foiled in dramatic, heavy fighting involving many Russian troops,

D) the US-backed and directed forces suffered a devastating defeat. Losses included:

850 TERRORISTS, 11 TANKS, 46 PICKUPS, 20 TRUCKS and 38 WEAPONS WAREHOUSES!

All this seemed almost surreal when we saw it on the ticker, and we just reported that this is what the Russians were claiming.

If true, it meant a massive setback for the US and Israel and their radical Islamist proxies.

The story was picked up everywhere and went viral.

A lot of people were skeptical that this could possibly be true. Even we had our doubts.

Well, since then, a lot of evidence has come out suggesting that it is largely correct:

Almasdar News, which is generally reliable, covered it:

Here are some pics from them:

Above, a destroyed BMP and below destroyed T-90 tanks.

There is more grisly stuff on Almasdar showing a bunch of corpses ...

Check out this Russian site for more photos.

Here is battlefield footage from the Syrian site Muraselon:

Here is a report from the main Russian Evening TV News (captioned), broadcast across all of Russia, giving more details (full transcript at the end of this article):

No major news source has covered this save for RT. Mainstream media FAIL!!

We also called SyrianGirl, and asked her what she thinks. She told us her sources on the ground were confirming that it is largely true and that the losses are devastating. She thinks the Russians are probably inflating the number of casualties, but not by much.

SyrianGirl is almost prophetic on Syrian issues, check her out on Twitter.

The Saker, one of the best informed military and Syria analysts out there also has an excellent article out this morning about the battle. Check it out for a more detailed analysis of what happened. He’s saying it is a very big deal and a major defeat for the US.

A brief quote:

In plain English this means that the US and Daesh have lost the war and that the last region of Syrian from which the AngloZionists can hope to partition the country (their current “plan B”) and establish a permanent US military presence is now threatened by the Syrian advance.

Here is the transcript of the Russian News Report: