Russian aircraft have delivered airstrikes on a bridge across the Euphrates River in Syria, cutting off the route of supply of the Islamic State (IS) militants from Iraq, chief of the Russian army General Staff’s main operations directorate, Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov told reporters on Thursday, October 22, Veterans Today reports.
“The bridge over the Euphrates River in the Deir ez-Zor area was a key facility in the [terrorists’] supply chain. Russian pilots delivered a pinpoint strike on this facility today, as a result of which the bridge has become unfit for further use by terrorists for their own purposes,” Kartapolov said.
According to him, this route of supply for the militants of the outlawed in Russia Islamic State terrorist organization was detected by Russia’s drones. “I’d like to emphasize that the airstrike was carried out in the area that, according to our American partners, is fully controlled by IS groups,” Kartapolov said.
He said that this airstrike helped the Syrian military launch an offensive and reconquer the stronghold from the militants.
Earlier on Thursday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said that Russian aircraft in Syria had flown 53 sorties to attack 72 terrorist targets in several provinces over the past twenty four hours.
According to the General Staff, Russia’s Aerospace Forces have carried out 934 sorties since the start of Russia’s operation in Syria, and destroyed 819 terrorist facilities.
He said that over the past week alone, 363 terrorist facilities have been destroyed, including 71 command posts and communication nodes, 10 plants producing explosives, 30 various depots of petroleum, oil and lubricants, ammunition and property, 252 strongholds, fortified localities and terrorist field camps.
