Over 54,000 militants have been eliminated and 1,000 settlements have been liberated in Syria over the past two years, Chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on November 7.
“More than 1,000 inhabited communities have been liberated, over 54,000 members of illegal armed units killed including more than 2,800 natives of Russia and 1,400 – of the former Soviet republics,” the Russian state-run media outlet TASS quoted Gerasimov’s statement at a meeting of the defense ministry board.
Gerasimov said that terrorists had about 1,500 battle tanks and armored vehicles, over 1,200 guns and mortars seized before they faced Russian forces an their allies. The terrorists had “no shortage of ammunition and materiel, which were constantly replenished from abroad.”
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