RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS BRIEFING
Speech by the Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Sergey Rūda
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Without a reliable blocking the channels of financing for LIH count on real success in the fight against the terrorist organization is not necessary.
As already noted the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov, the main source of funding for terrorists is the illegal sale of petroleum products.
In order to eliminate this channel of air and space forces of Russia strikes at the facilities of production, storage, processing and transportation of petroleum products on the territory of Syria, controlled LIH.
For two months in the Russian air strikes defeated thirty-two oil producing complexes, eleven refineries, twenty-three oil pumping stations.
Destroyed thousand and eighty of tankers carrying petroleum products.
This has reduced the turnover produced illegally on the territory of the Syrian oil by almost 50%.
By the most conservative estimates revenues this terrorist organization from the criminal business accounted for no less than three million dollars a day. Multiply that by four years.After our earnings terrorist attacks decreased to half a million dollars a day.
However, the gangs continue to receive significant funding, as well as weapons, ammunition and other material nourishment for their activities. A number of states and especially Turkey, are directly involved in large-scale igilovsky business project, providing aiding terrorists.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has irrefutable evidence, based on data from space and aerial reconnaissance, the involvement of Turkey in this business.
Today we present only part of the data available to us.
It identified three main routes of transportation of oil to Turkey from areas controlled by armed gangs LIH Syria and Iraq.
The western route, goes to Turkish ports on the Mediterranean coast, the north - to the refinery Batman in Turkey and the east - to the largest transshipment base in the village of Cizre.
You will be disclosed to the entire chain of supply of petroleum products in Turkey from production to recycling points.
On the western route hydrocarbons produced in the oil fields near the city of Raqqa, vehicles, mostly at night, transported to northwest Syria. Further, through the border towns of Azaz (Syria) and Reyhanli (Turkey) to the Turkish port of Iskenderun and Dörtyol.
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