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November 15th, 2016 
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nsnbc : Russian naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean, today, launched massive strikes against Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra targets in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Homs. The strikes, which are likely to continue, target primarily insurgents’ infrastructure and concentrations of their forces. The Russian Defense Ministry rebuked allegation that a hospital in Aleppo had been struck as “a pure lie”.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu commented that the strikes involved the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the frigate Admiral Grigorovich and other vessels.
Strikes were carried out with cruise missiles as well as by fighter bombers. Shoigu made his statement after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Shoigu said:
“Today, at 10:30 and at 11:00, we started a large-scale operation to deliver massive fire on the positions of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusrah) in the provinces of Idlib and Homs”.
Shoigu explained that the frigate Admiral Grigorovich that has launched Kalibr cruise missiles. The Russian forces are delivering massive strikes against terrorists’ factories in Syria, the defense minister said, adding that :
The strikes are targeting depots with ammunition and training centers, and also plants for the production of various mass destruction weapons”.
Shoigu also noted that Sukhoi Su-33 combat planes launched operations from the Admiral Kuznetsov. Implying that the Russian forces are careful to avoid collateral damage, and that the operations aim at targeting important infrastructure, including chemical weapons facilities, Shoigu noted:
“Before that, we conducted very thorough and substantial reconnaissance of all the targets. Proceeding from this, the basic targets were determined. … “You know that we have sent a large group of our radiation, chemical and bacteriological protection troops there for determining chemical agents, which terrorists are using. Over the past week, they have used them twice. In one case, 27 people were hospitalized and three were killed and, in the other case, 30 people were taken to hospital. I mean fighters of the Syrian army.”
Shoigu concluded that the results of today’s operation, which is being monitored by surveillance aircraft and drones, will be immediately reported “so that measures can be taken for subsequent steps in the struggle against terrorism in Syria”.
Major operations carried out by Russian naval forces have been forecast since insurgents prevented an evacuation of civilians from eastern Aleppo, twice. The strikes in Idlib and Homs may be a precursor of strikes against Al-Nusra and other Islamists including ISIS in Aleppo province.
CH/L – nsnbc 15.11.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/11/15/russian-naval-forces-launch-major-strikes-against-isis-and-al-nusra-in-syria/
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