ISIS Are Demoralized And Deserting En Masse Amid Russian Airstrikes

October 17th, 2015

Awake Goy

According to Moscow’s Defense Ministry, growing numbers of ISIS militants in Syria have become discontent with their command and are deserting the militant group amid the Russian airstrikes.

Senior Russian General Andrey Kartapolov told a briefing :”The majority of armed gangs are demoralized. Discontent with field commanders is growing amid the fighters, and there are instances of disobeying orders”

The general added that cases of desertion among the jihadists are no longer isolated as entire groups of extremist militants are now fleeing “en masse”

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RT reports:

To monitor the situation in the area, drone reconnaissance has been intensified.

Since Russia launched airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria following a request by President Bashar Assad, around 530 strikes have been conducted by its Air Force. Hundreds of terrorists and dozens of command posts, depots and other IS infrastructure have been destroyed.

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According to the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces, militants were forced to retreat under Russia’s strikes, as they have lost large amounts of weapons and military equipment on the contact line with the Syrian Army.

Russian strikes hit only militant targets, Kartapolov said, adding that during the past two weeks “enough video materials proving the accuracy of the airstrikes has been provided.” The general stressed that all such targets are located away from residential areas.

Meanwhile, some of the strikes conducted in Syria by the US led coalition destroy objects of civilian infrastructure, the Russian military official said, adding that it results in the growing flows of refugees fleeing from their native lands to the European Union.

On October 11 a Syrian thermal power plant was destroyed by the coalition strikes, Kartapolov said, adding that the location had been bombed repeatedly for several days. As a result, civilians in the city of Aleppo were left without electricity and sewerage stopped functioning, the general told defense attaches and journalists.

On Thursday, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also spoke negatively of the military operation led by US in Syria. “The result of their activity in the fight against IS in this particular region is next to zero,” Medvedev said in an interview for Rossiya channel, as cited by TASS.