Velucian high command, realising that casualties have gone beyond expected levels; at around 20,000 men and 1000 pieces of armour, decided that the needs of the Imperial Dominion are greater than that of the Syrian people. Tons of explosives are now being dropped on the Prussian lines, with bombers ordered to drop as much of their payload as possible; no longer tied back by precautions of civilian targets. The MIL-MI28s bombard any locations believe to contain enemy armour with rockets and have begun destroying the foundation of any multi-storey buildings near to the Prussians in an attempt to collapse them on the defenders. 2S19 Msta's (SPGs) brought up from the reserves have also begun to fire shell at any designated targets velucian troops have been able to paint. The Imperial 2nd fleet (made up of 1 Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier, 2 Kirov-class battlecruisers, 5 Sovremennyy-class destroyers and 8  Grisha-class corvettes) makes its way to intercept the Prussian fleet currently bombarding Damascus.

On the ground, Velucian infantry have moved into range of Prussian forces and have begun fighting. Due to the numerous ruins surrounding Damascus, due to its history, the soldiers gain cover and pick off targets as they see them, they are around 35 - 40 meters away. The T-90a's, however, are struggling to damage the numerous Leopard 3's due to their forward armour and so attempt to use flanking manoeuvres to get shots at the rear of the tanks. For the most part this is a success, though armour causalities are high. The 2S25's, on the other hand, have been very successful in their task - which is to put as much pressure on the Prussian infantry as possible.

Seeing how the 24s were being picked off by Prussian Gepards, after they had expelled all their ammunition, they returned back to what remains of the airstrip - just in time to watch a Tupolev Tu-160, that had arrived just before the combat began from the mainland, take off to drop its payload of 20000kg of free-fall explosives. It is escorted by 12 SU-35 fighter jets.

(OOC - if any S's are missing, its because my s button doesn't work sometimes.)