The Russian space forces killed in Syria almost 2.5 thousand militants over 10 days
Air and space forces of Russia destroyed almost 2.5 thousand extremists in Syria during strikes on the positions of militants in 10 days.
About this informed the official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov in on Saturday, September 30, reports RIA Novosti.
“As a result of precise missile and air strikes of Russian air force from 19 to 29 September confirmed losses of terrorists made 2 359 militants were killed and about 2.7 thousand wounded,” he said. Among liquidated terrorists — 16 commanders at various levels, as well as more than 400 immigrants from Russia and the CIS countries.
The Ministry added that the air strikes had destroyed 67 strongholds of militants, 27 tanks, 21 the reactive systems of volley fire, 51 ammunition, 149 cars with machine guns and 17 “gigajoule”.
Konashenkov noted that the terrorist group “Islamic state” and “Jabhat EN-Nusra” (both banned in Russia) suffered the most serious loss for a few months. The attempted attack on the West and East Syria ended in failure.
Previously, on 30 September it was reported that Syrian government troops and allied forces repulsed a powerful attack militants “Islamic state” on the road Palmyra — Deir ez-Zor.
Prior to this, the group “Jaish al-Issa” (“Army of Glory”) has published a video of an unsuccessful attack on the aircraft of the Russian HQs in the North Syrian province of Hama.
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