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The Russian defense Ministry announced the details of the actions of Russian troops in Syria. The relevant data leads and the departmental newspaper “Red Star”.
As the infographic presented by the publication, from the militants of the “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia) released 87.4 percent of the country. More and more localities join in the cease-fire (February 26 last year — 2235).
For all time operation of the Russian VKS made 30650 sorties, the result was affected 96828 terrorist targets. Of them of 8.33 thousand command points and 53.7 per thousand clusters of militants was 6.77 thousands of warehouses of fuel and ammunition, 184 refinery, 134 station fuel transfer and columns of tankers and 212 of the oil fields. Russian sappers cleared almost 5.3 thousand hectares Syrian territory, demolishing more than 60 thousand items of unexploded ordnance and explosive devices.
In Syria since 2011, the confrontation of President Bashar al-Assad and rebels seeking his overthrow. The conflict escalated into full-scale civil war, which strengthened the terrorist organization, including Islamic state.