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28 March 2024

Video: Russia bombs Daesh with 'For Paris'

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By AFP

According to Russian media, the airstrikes have also destroyed more than 1,000 oil tankers and hit training sites and refineries, which are a main source of income for Daesh.

Russia's defence ministry has reportedly released footage that shows suspected militants fleeing the bombardment.

The airstrike in Syria follows the Paris terrorist attacks that Daesh claimed responsibility for.

Russian has previously dropped bombs emblazoned with the words “For our people” and “For Paris” after Moscow vowed vengeance following the bombing of a plane over Sinai.

Russian television broadcast a video in which a man is seen scrawling "For our people!" and "For Paris!" in black pen on aerial bombs minutes before a warplane is set to take off from the country's airbase in Syria.

"For our people! For Paris! Pilots and technicians of airbase sent a message to terrorists by airmail," the Russian defence ministry said on its official Twitter account.

"The armed forces are conducting an aerial campaign of retribution," the defence ministry said in a separate statement, adding the military had begun coordinating their operations with the French.

Earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to hunt down and "punish" those behind a bomb attack that brought down a passenger jet over Sinai last month, killing all 224 people, mostly Russian holidaymakers, on board.

After the carnage in Paris which claimed the lives of 130 people Putin and French President Francois Hollande agreed to "ensure closer contact and coordination" in their countries' operations in Syria".

The two leaders will meet at the Kremlin next week.

Russia has been conducting a bombing campaign in Syria since September 30, the country's largest foreign intervention outside the former Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.

The Daesh group said it had bombed the Russian jet in Egypt in retaliation for the bombing raids.