Russian warplanes carried out 107 sorties and hit 289 terrorist targets in Syria over the past 48 hours, expanding the operation range from six to eight provinces, Fars News Agency reports, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
“On November 11-12, (Russian) aircraft conducted 107 sorties, hitting targets in Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, Lattakia, Hama, Dara’a, Homs and Deir Ezzir,” Major General Igor Konashenkov said, Sputnik reported.
According to Konashenkov, 184 terrorist fortified areas, 50 strongholds with military equipment and weapons and 34 command centers were destroyed by Russian airstrikes.
The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed an ISIL ammunition depot in the Damascus province, which was supplying the terrorists with rockets to shell the Syrian capital.
A Russian Su-34 bomber launched a pinpoint strike by a BETAB-500 bunker buster bomb on an ISIL ammunition depot in Syria’s province of Dara’a, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.
An ISIL stronghold and the terrorist group’s ammunition depot were destroyed by a Su-24M military jet
in the Homs province.
Moreover, a major Nusra Front ammunition depot was destroyed in the Hama province.
Meanwhile, in the Idlib province, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched airstrikes on a Nusra Front plant, which had been producing rockets and explosive devices.
“In the city of Maarrat al-Nu’man in Idlib province, a Su-34 bomber destroyed a factory producing ammunition for the Nusra Front (terrorist) group. The militants manufactured missiles, hand-made explosive devices and equipped vehicles with explosives at this site. As a result of the airstrike, both buildings, where the factory was located, were completely destroyed.”
A Nusra Front command center was destroyed in the Syria’s province of Lattakia, the general said.
“In the Lattakia province, a Nusra Front command and surveillance center was destroyed. The building occupied by terrorists was completely destroyed by a pinpoint strike.”
Terrorists fighting in the Lattakia province have received an order to urgently evacuate modern arms and assets, Konashenkov said.
He added that local citizens in Syria’s provinces of Lattakia, Tartus, Homs, Hama, Idlib and Damascus were joining self-defense groups.
Russian aviation destroyed a column of fuel tankers with crude oil, which was heading toward Iraq, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“As a result of the aerial reconnaissance near Al Mayadin in the province of Deir ez-Zor, a column of fuel tankers heading toward the Syrian-Iraqi border was uncovered. According to data, the vehicles transported crude produced in the ISIL-controlled oil fields to refineries of terrorists located in Iraq.”