Six Tu-22M3 bombers took off from the Russian territory and carried out concentrated air strikes on ISIS targets near al-Sukhnah and Arak in the Syrian province of Homs, the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) reported on August 8.
The MoD says that the bombers destroyed the terrorists’ control centres and concentrations, ammo storage, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 12 crossover utility vehicles with weapons were near Palmyra and Arak. A command and control centre and a large field camp located near al-Sukhnah were also destroyed by the air strikes.
Experts believe that the air raids pursued the goal to oppose the ISIS attempts to advance in the province of Homs amid the ongoing battle for Aleppo.
