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The official representative of the defense Ministry major-General Igor Konashenkov denied the information about the applied videoconferencing impact on the Syrian opposition, RIA Novosti reported.
“Syrian government forces backed by the Russian space forces for more than a week lead successful battles to elimination of the last foothold of ISIS in Deir ez-Zor. In order to avoid unnecessary escalation, the command of the Russian forces in Syria, according to the existing communication channel in advance, brought to the American partners of the boundaries of the military operation in Deir ez-Zor”, he said.
As noted Konashenkov, in the context of the operation destroyed the manpower, armored vehicles and terrorist targets on the Western and on the Eastern Bank of the Euphrates. Russian aerospace forces, inflicting precision strikes in areas controlled by ISIL (ISIS, is prohibited in Russia) regions to destroy firing points of terrorists from which leads a massive fire at Syrian troops.
In addition, according to the defense Ministry, over the past few days on the East Bank of the Euphrates Russian control and intelligence there were no clashes with ISIL terrorists armed representatives of any “third force”.
So how among ISIL militants in the Eastern part of Deir ez-Zor could be “the opposition” or “military advisers of countries of the international coalition” can answer only the representatives of the international coalition,” — said Konashenkov.
On the eve of the Western media reported that the Syrian government and the Russian air force launched strikes on the Syrian militias, supported by the United States, in the province of Deir El-Zor at dawn on Saturday. This was reported by the official representative kurdo-Arab SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) Ahmed Abu Hola.
The group includes the Kurdish people’s protection units (YPG and YPJ), the various Arab opposition groups in the Syrian Arab coalition. The task that he declare the fight against “Islamic state” (IG — banned terrorist organization). According to Hola, the air strikes injured six people.
It was reported that the aircraft came from the territory controlled by the state, and struck the East Bank of the Euphrates river, with several representatives of the opposition fighters of the “Syrian democratic forces” were wounded, the coalition members were not injured.
Later the Pentagon issued a statement which claimed that the representatives of the Syrian opposition have suffered as a result of air strikes by Russian videoconferencing. This was discussed on twitter the international coalition participating in operation “Unwavering commitment”.
Russian forces struck a target east of the Euphrates River in #Syria near Dayr Az Zawr, causing injuries to Coalition partner forces. pic.twitter.com/bypyfb8odZ— Inherent Resolve (@CJTFOIR) 16 Sep 2017
Pentagon spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon also posted on twitter a photo of wounded soldiers.
#SDF & Coalition medics treat wounded SDF by Russian airstrike on known loc. Many #SDF from tribes local to Dayr Az Zawr, fighting vs. ISIS pic.twitter.com/rA4mkkzvKQ— OIR Spokesman (@OIRSpox) 16 Sep 2017
“Physicians visiting the victims of the air strikes by the Russian military on the positions of the warring terrorist allies,” he wrote.