— Some are falsely circulating this video as battles in Aleppo City, but it is a battle in Southwestern Aleppo countryside, south of al-Barqoum in Tal Hadya, as the person in the video mentions.

There are only two options.

1. The SAA planned this and it's some kind of 5D chess 200 IQ move.

2. The SAA was caught woefully off-guard.

I think it's the latter. But there is always a lot of hype surrounding these types of offensives at the start, we have to see what happens in the next few weeks and months.

For now, it seems that the Turkish-backed HTS terrorists have managed to overwhelm the Syrian Army due to sheer numbers in terms of manpower. SAA reinforcements need time to organize and prepare.

Something isn't adding up.

Most of these advances seem to be without any meaningful resistance.

As I said to a friend in private, the Syrian Arab Army needs to hold Eastern Aleppo City, on the east of the river, including the Citadel which looks over the city.

If they lose this, it's over. That's not 'defeatism', that's a simple reality. It would take months if not years to recapture it. Very difficult.

However, I will not make premature conclusions, we have to wait and see what will happen. I hope the situation changes.

To those who still don't believe that the Syrian 'opposition' is Israeli backed, can you open your fucking eyes now???

— 🇸🇾 WATCH: A Syrian man walks in Al-Furqan neighbourhood in Western Aleppo City, and says, surprisingly, that there is nothing strange and everything is ordinary, despite that HTS claims to control this area

It is possible that HTS made a temporary entry into the city and then pulled back for the night to continue their offensive tomorrow. Their push was probably over-extended and not sustainable.

@Middle_East_Spectator

Reports that HTS is inside central Aleppo City are false. They are present no further than Hamadaniyeh and Al-Furqan.

🔸🇱🇧 - Speech of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem, started.

⚜️@SNNenglish