"In total, our military aircraft have flown about 4,000 sorties, destroying over 8,000 objects of military infrastructure belonging to the terrorists. As a result, Daesh militants have been significantly weakened," Shoigu said, speaking at a Defense Ministry Board meeting on Friday.Russia launched its military mission in Syria on September 30, 2015, at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad, carrying out airstrikes against Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) and Al-Nusra Front targets. Since then, the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, in coordination with ships of the Caspian Flotilla and the Black Sea Fleet Submarine 'Rostov-on-Don', have destroyed hundreds of militants and thousands of pieces of terrorist infrastructure.
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