Russian planes per day killed more than 320 militants in Syria – Independent Newspaper

For the past day the planes of the Russian air group in Syria carried out 59 sorties at 212 targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Raqqa and al-Hasakah, he announced today the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major-General Igor Konashenkov.

  
 

He said that only in the past day killed more than 320 militants and 34 units of armored and motor vehicles of terrorists, including 2 tanks, 1 infantry fighting vehicles and 15 jeeps, equipped with heavy machine guns DSK. In order to disrupt terrorist sources of income over the past day, Russian Su-34 bombers destroyed near the village of Deir ez-Zor 94 fuel “nalivnikov.” Also, near the village of Rashid Gaube, Hasakah province, in the “free search” bomber Su-34 has been detected and destroyed a convoy of 15 fuel tankers, transports northbound crude oil produced in areas controlled by terrorists.

  
 

In the province of Aleppo, Su-24 bombers struck by the accumulation of manpower and equipment gangs LIH (banned in Russia). Objective monitoring data confirmed the destruction of at least 10 militants and 3 cars with mounted heavy machine guns.

  
 

In the vicinity of the village of El Karateyn province of Homs Su-24M bomber destroyed the base disguised terrorists LIH. The underground shelters militants was equipped command post, an ammunition depot and barracks.

  
 

In the area of ​​Maaret En-Numan, Idlib province of Su-25 destroyed a major terrorist base LIH. In a separate building was a warehouse of ammunition and materiel, as well as the command center of armed gangs. As the I.Konashenkov, information about the location of this facility have been received from representatives of the Syrian opposition. After verifying this information through the Information Center in Baghdad and further exploration of the coordinate base unmanned fighters, blow Su-25, the property was destroyed.

  
 

Once combat missions all the planes of the Russian air group safely back to the air base “Hmeymim.”

  
 

I.Konashenkov also noted that foreign media cited unnamed sources, according to which Russian planes allegedly inflict indiscriminate attacks. The representative of the Ministry of Defense said that the first day of operation in Syria “we regularly and fully, not only tell, but also show the results of our combat operation.” “Moreover, today we are the only army in the world, which showed in detail even how and what exactly the Russian precision weapons from aircraft and ships we hit targets of terrorists,” – added I.Konashenkov. He also noted that “no shooting from air bases and the more video content on the purposes for which strikes allegedly” surgical precision, “simply does not exist” and “about the press tours of journalists to antiigilovskoy coalition airbase in general no one heard.” The representative of the Ministry of Defence sure that reputable foreign channels “unintentionally increasingly outstanding cadres beats Russian aircraft for the actions antiigilovskoy coalition».

  
 

According to the Defense Ministry