Kremlin says Syria ‘terrorists’ no longer able to fight

22 October 2015, 8:35 pm

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Russia’s defense ministry says it struck 72 “terrorist” targets in Syria over the past 24 hours, claiming to have destroyed the combat capability of the main terrorist groups operating in the country.

“As a result of Russian air strikes, the main forces of terrorist groups, made up of the best trained terrorists, have lost combat capability. Their command and resupply system has been disrupted,” senior military official Andrei Kartopolov tells Russian news agencies.

Since the start of the campaign, Russian planes have carried out 934 sorties that have destroyed 819 “terrorist targets”, including command centers, ammunition depots and training camps, Kartopolov says.

— AFP