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Mark Urban, BBC: Russia's Syria intervention: One month in
The deployment of a Russian strike force of 34 combat jets and 21 helicopters showed how billions invested in the armed forces by President Vladimir Putin had paid off. Within days of arriving they were flying attack missions, and have now clocked up something like 1,000 of them.
President Putin wanted to show the world that he would bring a zeal to the battle against militancy in Syria that had been sorely lacking under the American-led coalition.
So, whereas the US-led air forces have averaged around six strikes per day during the past year (actually less during this last month) the Russians started with eight, were soon up to a couple of dozen, and have mounted as many as 94 strikes in a single day.
Update: Month of Russian air strikes on Syria kill nearly 600: monitor (Reuters).
WNU Editor: A short but concise analysis on Russia's military campaign in Syria.
That's a lot of very expensive air strikes for only 600 dead. At that rate if ISIS has 30,000 it will be a very costly program. Perhaps if they bought off the terrorists it would be cheaper.
ReplyDeleteI think its impossible to calculate the dead on the ground in syria.
ReplyDeleteThe group that gives these reports is based in london so intelligence is sketchy at best.
Then when you consider how many get put under the rubble ,mortally wounded, or simply cease to exist then ld have no doubt the true casualties would be in the 1000's.