Moscow: Russia’s air force hit 60 Islamic state targets in Syria over the day and killed nearly 300 militants, according to a Defence Ministry announcement, in Moscow’s most intense raids yet since it first launched strikes on Syria 10 days ago.
According to the previous updates, the Moscow has been reporting hitting about 10 daily targets. The rise in the attack was focussed on preventing militants from re-grouping and dispersing in populated aresa, the ministry said.
The ministry claimed in a statement on Friday that, air force jets used KAB-500 precision guided bombs to destroy a headquarters of the Liwa al-Haqq militant group in Syria’s Raqqa province.
The raid killed two senior Islamic State field commanders and some 200 militants, said by the ministry, citing interception radio communications.
Liwa al-Haqq who is not connected to Islamic State, so it was not clear about what the two field commanders were doing at the group’s base. Not just this but the official also report that, it destroyed an Islamic State base and munitions storage set up in a former prison near Aleppo, by killing another 100 militants.
Other targets identified by the Russian ministry as having been struck in the past 24 hours included militants’ training sites in the Latakia and Idlib provinces. The ministry said its SU-34, SU-24M and SU-25CM fighter jets carried out 67 sorties over the past 24 hours.
