Alwaght- Two Russian warships and a submarine have fired six Kalibr cruise missiles on ISIS terrorist group targets in Syria.
According to a Friday statement by the Russian Defense Ministry, the missiles were launched from Russian Navy frigates, the Admiral Essen and the Admiral Grigorovich, as well as a submarine, the Krasnodar, from the eastern Mediterranean. The submarine fired its missiles while submerged.
The strikes targeted ISIS command and control centers, as well as ammunition depots in the Syrian province of Hama.
Friday’s precision strike hit a large ISIS ammunition depot near the town of Aqerbat, which detonated after receiving a direct hit, the Defense Ministry statement noted.
The remaining targets were destroyed in subsequent airstrikes, the ministry said. Russia warned Turkey and the Israeli regime about the attacks via military-to-military hotlines, it added.
Over the past week, ISIS terrorists made numerous attempts to escape the besieged city of Raqqa and head towards Palmyra using a “southern corridor,” according to the Russian military.
The terrorists are moving forces through rugged terrain to the Hama province during the night and setting up command posts and ammunition depots in large buildings there, it added.
The movements of ISIS terrorists in the area are being monitored by Russian surveillance assets operating round the clock, the military said, adding that any potential targets detected will be subject to precision strikes by the Air Force.
The Russian strike comes days after Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired six medium-range ground-to-ground ballistic missiles into ISIS bases in Syria’s Deir Ezzor on Sunday in retaliation for twin terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital Tehran, which killed 17 people and injured over 50 others.
An ISIS weapons and munitions cache in northern Deir Ezzor was "precisely struck and completely annihilated," the statement said, adding that several tanks, military vehicles and suicide cars and a huge number of long-range missiles were destroyed. Hundreds of ISIS terrorists, including top commanders were killed in the attack.
Iran and Russia are engaged in anti-terrorist operations inside Syria under the direct permission of the government in Damascus.
