Go to the mediabankTu-22 bomber bombers of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria. Archival photoMOSCOW, Oct. 16VKS in Syria launched airstrikes on a training camp for militants and an illegal armed formation command post, destroyed up to 100 radicals, weapons depots, said the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the Arab Republic Major Oleg Yegorov. It is specified that in the Turkish-controlled territory of north-western Syria in the area of u200bu200bthe settlements of Afrin and Azaz, against the background of the redistribution of spheres of influence, clashes between militants of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group * and radical illegal armed groups «Jabhat al-Shamia» continue * and Feylak al-Sham *. In order to counter international terrorist organizations, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched air strikes on a militant training camp in the area 1.3 kilometers northeast of the Katma settlement and an illegal armed formation command post in the area 2.2 kilometers to the west settlement Azaz.Destroyed up to 100 radicals, a command post, warehouses with weapons, ammunition and mat by means of serial means, the headquarters of the camp, as well as up to 15 vehicles with heavy machine guns and «balloon launchers,» Yegorov said at a briefing. He specified that over the past day in the Idlib de-escalation zone, four shellings were recorded from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group. *. One shelling in the province of Idlib, one shelling in the province of Aleppo, two shellings in the province of Hama.* Terrorist organization banned in Russia. The Center for Reconciliation in the SAR announced an increase in the activity of militants patronized by the United States
