Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia will assess the possibility of applying air strikes on positions of ISIL in Iraq, if it receives an official appeal from Baghdad
RIA News cite a statement by the Director of the Department for New Challenges and Threats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Ilya Rogachev:
Recall that on the eve of September 30, the Russian Aerospace Forces began to apply aviation attacks on terrorist positions in Syria. According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian military pilots destroyed the militants' headquarters, a depot with weapons and ammunition, and several military facilities belonging to the so-called Islamic State. With the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Syrian army liberated several settlements north of Homs.
In the liberal environment, we already said that at the points marked on the map, "for sure there is no ISIS", but there is a "Syrian free army". I wonder how these gentlemen, lying on their sofas, determine where ISIS is, and where it is not? Or who prompts? ..
And it has literally just become known that the Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider Al-Abadi, stated that although he did not discuss with Vladimir Putin the question of the participation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the operation against ISIL, he would have welcomed it if Russia had started such an operation.
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