The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian warplanes conducted air raids in the Idlib, Hama and Lattakia provinces on 20 November.
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Yesterday, Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that Russian warplanes had destroyed 15 oil facilities in Syria and 525 trucks carrying oil in bombing this week.
ISIS controls nearly all of Syria’s oil fields, concentrated in the east of the country, producing some 30,000 barrels a day, along with one field in Iraq.
“Over the past 48 days, the Russian air grouping has performed 2,289 sorties and delivered 4,111 missile and bomb strikes against major infrastructure facilities and the concentrations of the militants’ armor and personnel”, he said.
The terrain-hugging Kalibr cruise missiles, which North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has codenamed Sizzler, fly at an altitude of 50 meters (164 feet) and are accurate to within three meters, the Russian Defense Ministry says. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
The group says it planted the bomb as a response to actions by the Russian air force and predicted more attacks on Russia.
In its bombing campaign, Moscow has twice fired salvoes of cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea that passed over northern Iraq en route to their targets in Syria, most recently on Friday.
A fleet of Russian warships in the Caspian sea separately launched 18 cruise missiles on “terrorist positions” in Syria earlier today.
On Monday, Putin said that the Russians would provide air support for anti-Assad groups, in the interests of teaming with the US and other Western allies in the fight against ISIS.
The province and most of the provincial capital is held by ISIS militants, with the exception of the military airport and a few areas controlled by the regime.
The Russian ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry to hear the protest.
The bomb is now waiting to be dispatched from Syria and follows the news that Isis were responsible for last week’s Paris attacks as well as the Russian plane crash in Egypt.
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During his meeting with senior officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense in Moscow on Friday, President Putin said the current operations will be intensified.
