Russias military said Friday that its Air Force had bombed anti-government forces in Syria to repel extremists that have released a major offensive on the city of Aleppo, state news firms reported.Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies reached Syrias second city on Friday, pushing a lightning offensive versus forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government.The battling is a few of the most dangerous in years in Syrias civil war.
The Russian Air Force is performing rocket-bomb attacks on the equipment and workforce of prohibited armed groups, control points, storage facilities and weapons positions of terrorists, news companies reported a spokesperson for the Defense Ministrys Reconciliation Center for Syria as saying.It claimed that 200 militants had been destroyed over the last 24 hours.AFP might not verify that figure.
The operation to push back the aggression of the extremists continues, stated Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy head of the Russian reconciliation center, state media reported.Moscow is Syrian leader Bashar al-Assads essential military backer, having turned the tide of the civil war in his favor when it intervened in 2015.