Sunday, December 27, 2015

WATCH: Russian fighter jets smash ISIS oil tankers after spotting 12,000 at Turkish border

WATCH: Russian fighter jets smash ISIS oil tankers after spotting 12,000 at Turkish border

THIS is the moment the Russian air force used ferocious airstrikes to obliterate dozens of oil tankers being driven out of Syria by Islamic State jihadis.


The devastating attack was launched after pilots spotted a convoy of hundreds of vehicles it says were destined for Turkey, which Russia claims is a route the terrorist organisation is using to sell the commodity to raise money for its feared caliphate, as well as attacks on the West.

It came as one of Vladimir Putin's top officials said nearly 12,000 tankers on either side of the Syrian/Turkey border were seen on a recent mission.
In the last week, claims Moscow, 17 ISIS convoys have been destroyed in Russian airstrikes.
The jets carried out the attack at the Syria-Turkey borderGETTY•RUSSIANGOV
The jets carried out the attack at the Syria-Turkey border
The latest video, released by the Russian defence ministry, shows the tankers bunched together as they make their way along the road.

They are then blasted by the fighter jet.

Flames and plumes of smoke are seen coming from vehicles as the camera zooms in on the carnage.
Hundreds of tankers were bunched together in the videoIG
Hundreds of tankers were bunched together in the video
The jets are then shown launching bombs at the vehicles
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The jets are then shown launching bombs at the vehicles

Speaking of the images of the vast number of vehicles recorded by intelligence services betwen Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy said: “The [aerial] imagery was made in the vicinity of Zakho (a city in Iraqi Kurdistan), there were 11,775 tankers and trucks on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border.

“It must be noted that oil from both Iraq and Syria come through this [Zakho] checkpoint."
The camera zooms in to show the damage
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The camera zooms in to show the damage

He added recent successes by the Russian air force had made a big dent in the ISIS oil industry.

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