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Moscow, SANA – Russian combat aircrafts have carried out more than 4,200 missions against terrorist targets since the start of the air operation in Syria on September 30, the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.
“Since September 30, the Russian air group has carried out a total of 4201 combat missions, including 145 sorties by strategic and long-range bombers,” Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said in a statement, clarifying that the Russian Air Force is conducting airstrikes on the main facilities for ISIS.
Rudskoy pointed out that “Six illegal oilfields controlled by terrorists, as well as seven columns of fuel trucks carrying oil products have been destroyed over the past three days,” adding that “Since the start of the air campaign, Russian aircraft have destroyed over 1,200 such trucks.”
He stated that “Over the past few weeks, the intensity of Russian strikes on targets of ISIS and other terrorist groups has been increased. Russian aviation continued to give priority to undermining the terrorists’ sources of income in Syria.”
Rudskoy stressed that “The Russian airstrikes continue to focus on destroying sources of illegal revenue for terrorists in Syria.”
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