US officials said last month four missiles launched from Russian warships in the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran, but Russia insisted they had reached their targets in Syria.
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“Russian air force fighters wrote ‘For Paris” and “For Ours” on bombs loading onto Russia planes destined for ISIS in Syria.
The Russian air force and navy have ratcheted up raids against IS targets in Syria since last Tuesday after Moscow identified the October 31 Russian plane crash over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula a terrorist attack.
At least eight people were killed in at least 50 air strikes in the eastern Deir Ezzor province on Friday, during which dozens of oil tankers were destroyed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The decision was made to “protect passengers and because of the crossing of cruise missiles and bombers from the northern part of Iraq to Syria, launched from the Caspian Sea and Iran and Iraq”, it said.
The FAB-250-M62 high explosive bombs were taken to Syria in Russian Su-34 attack jets, reported state-affiliated Russia Today.
Assad said Russia’s airstrikes are more effective than those of the US-led coalition because Moscow is coordinating with his government, adding that “you can not fight terrorism with airstrikes alone”.
In those four days alone, Shoigu said, Russia has unleashed 101 high-tech cruise missiles – fired from aircraft as well as from Russian warships in the Caspian and Mediterranean Seas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the militaries moving but claimed that there is yet a lot of work to do to finish with terrorist in Syria.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the start of Syria’s 2011 uprising.
An investigation by British newspaper The Financial Times last month estimated the jihadists reap some $1.5 million a day from oil, based on the price of $45 a barrel. French President Francois Hollande is set to travel to Washington and Moscow next week for talks on joint military action against ISIS, and Putin already has ordered the military to cooperate with the French.
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“According to our data, due to heavy losses and the inability to bury all of the eliminated terrorists in accordance with Islamic tradition, the commanders chose to dump the bodies of ordinary militants in sewage pits”.
