During the ongoing operation in Syria, the Russia’s Aerospace Forces have delivered around 90,000 strikes against terrorists, chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy said.
“Since the beginning of the military operation, the Aerospace Forces have made more than 28,000 sorties, delivering around 90,000 airstrikes,” Rudskoy told a roundtable at the Army-2017 military and technical forum.
The general stressed that the Russian military campaign dealt a heavy blow to the terrorists’ control system and infrastructure. “The main routes of supplying gunmen with weapons and ammunition have been blocked. Terrorist organizations have been deprived of financial support from illegal sales of oil products,” Rudskoy said.
During the operation to destroy crucial terrorist facilities, the Aerospace Forces used cruise missiles from warships, submarines and strategic missile carriers with the range of up to 1,500 kilometers and also aircraft of long-range bomber aviation, he said.
“Special operations forces play an important role in destroying armed groups. They perform tasks of destroying leaders of terrorists, eliminating critical facilities of the enemy and adjusting strikes of our aviation,” Rudskoy said.
Russian military advisers also have a significant role in helping the command during planning combat operations, training military formations and units of the Syrian army, he said.