Moscow, SANA- In the framework of its war on the\u00a0Takfiri terrorism in Syria upon the request of the\u00a0Syrian government, Russian jets destroyed more\u00a0than 60 vehicles, some equipped with machineguns\u00a0attempting to escape Raqqa city and roll towards
\nPalmyra. Dozens of vehicles carrying heavy\u00a0weaponry manned by over 80 terrorists were hit.<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a Thursday\u00a0statement that more than 80 ISIS terrorists were\u00a0killed, 8 fuel trucks, 53 vehicles and 17\u00a0machineguns-equipped pickups were destroyed while
\nthey were attempting to leave Raqqa on Monday\u00a0night.<\/p>\n
The statement clarified that the airstrikes were\u00a0called in after the movements were spotted by\u00a0reconnaissance units.<\/p>\n
The Ministry said that the Command of the Russian\u00a0Forces operating in Syria will do their best to\u00a0prevent ISIS militants from breaking into the\u00a0provinces of Homs and Hama, adding that the
\nRussian task force in Syria has warned that any\u00a0attempts by ISIS militants to escape Raqqa through\u00a0an open corridor towards Palmyra will be met with\u00a0coercive force,<\/p>\n
The statement pointed out that the Russian air\u00a0forces foiled, during a week, two attempts by ISIS\u00a0terrorists to leave Raqqa, asserting that on May\u00a025, the Russian forces managed to destroy a\u00a0terrorist convoy which was heading for Palmyra\u00a0from Raqqa.<\/p>\n
The Ministry said that ISIS terrorist cross the\u00a0Euphrates River to leave Raqqa despite that they\u00a0are encircled by the Qasad groups and the US,\u00a0French and British forces.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the Russian Navy fired four Kalibr\u00a0cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean\u00a0that targeted terrorist compounds east of Palmyra.
\nThe missile strike decimated ISIS positions near\u00a0the city, the Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n
H. Zain\/ Ghossoun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moscow, SANA- In the framework of its war on the\u00a0Takfiri terrorism in Syria upon the request of the\u00a0Syrian government, Russian jets destroyed more\u00a0than 60 vehicles, some equipped with machineguns\u00a0attempting to escape Raqqa city and roll towards Palmyra. Dozens of vehicles carrying heavy\u00a0weaponry manned by over 80 terrorists were hit. The Russian Defense Ministry said in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,1,106],"tags":[13562],"class_list":["post-107316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-not-sorted","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-russian-airstrikes-take-out-80-isis-fighters-and-dozens-of-their-vehicles-heading-from-raqqa-for-palmyra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}