Russian General Staff: More than 6000 sorties hit terrorists’ sites in Syria since Sep 30

Moscow, SANA-The Russian General Staff announced on Friday that the Russian warplanes carried out more than 6000 sorties against terrorists’ sites since the beginning of the Russian military operation against terrorism in Syria.

Chief of Russia’s General Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov said in a statement published by RT website that the Russian airstrikes significantly contributed to the decrease in the finances of ISIS due to the drop in the terrorist organization’s oil sales.

The Russian official added that the Syrian forces are launching intensive military operations and advancing on 10 axes by virtue of the Russian air strikes, stressing that ISIS will be defeated sooner or later.

On September 30th, the Russian air force started to carry out airstrikes against positions of the ISIS terrorist organization upon the request of Syria.

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