According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, Russian jets flew 15 sorties over Syria on Monday striking ten ISIS targets in various locations.
They say that 20 tanks and 3 rocket launchers in the Homs province near Palmyra were destroyed.
A spokesman said in a statement on Monday: “During the day, Sukhoi-34, Sukhoi-24M and Sukhoi-25 warplanes flew a total of 15 sorties from the Khmeimim airbase. Air strikes were delivered at ten targets of the Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] group in Syria”
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Three days into operations, the Defense Ministry report that, based on Russian intelligence, ISIS were fleeing the area which had been under their control. They also stated that the air strikes have significantly reduced the terrorists’ combat capabilities.
RT reports:
A pair of Su-25Ms (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) together with an Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) carried out strikes on two IS targets in the eastern part of Homs province near the city of Tadmur, he said.
“About 20 units of medium T-55 tanks, which were earlier seized by the militants from the Syrian army, have been destroyed [in the strikes],” as well as three multiple rocket launchers, he noted.
A video released by the ministry also showed a strike against an IS ammunition depot in Homs. The ministry explained: “Bright flashes confirm detonation of munitions caused by direct hits of air bombs. Thick smoke provides evidence of fire in the depot.”
The city Tadmur is located in an oasis in the middle of the Syrian Desert and stands about half a kilometer northeast of the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra. The UNESCO protected cultural site was captured by IS in May. They have been gradually destroying archeological artifacts and structures since seizing the ancient city. On Sunday they blew up the Arch of Triumph, a centerpiece of the ancient ruins.
US Central Command reported on Monday that the US-led coalition had conducted airstrikes near Palmyra with “inconclusive results.”
Russian Su-34 bombers destroyed IS headquarters and a command post in the Aleppo province, Konashenkov said on Monday, adding that there had been “direct hits” on structures housing field commanders in Dayr Hafir and al-Bab.
Niamh Harris
Them armored death machines cost the sheeple of America some $5 million a piece, and cost about $250.00 per mile to run and a few thousand per round fired, courtesy U.S. tax dollars to commit unprovoked murder against Syrian people. The Americans are totally hypnotized by the lying Council on Foreign Relations and their domination of the televised and printed false news networks. I am still searching for a method to bitch slap some sense into them all at the same time without breaking a law. They do not read but do lay around like infected pus. What to do? A cleanse of the wound is necessary before healing can take place. Satanism begins at The Vatican and the Church of England. The CIA is headquartered in Switzerland, not Langley Virginia, to be close to the BIS(Bank of International Settlements).