The liberation of the suburbs of the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic – Damask, completed, According to the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
It was held unprecedented in its scale humanitarian operation in Eastern Guta, Eastern and Yarmouk Kalamune. Humanitarian corridors of Damascus suburbs were put 188 thousand. 234 man, among which 28 thousand. 725 militants – said Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy.
Overall, since the beginning of this year, Syrian army, backed by Russian VKS Russia released a number of key areas of Syria, such as the eastern part of the province of Idlib, Damascus suburbs, East Guta, East Kalamun, Jarmuk, as well as the northern areas of the province of Homs, which are now fully under the control of government troops.
In the course of the disarmament of illegal armed groups, only for today, Syrian army got seven tanks, five BMP, seven pickup trucks with heavy machine guns, 122 guns and mortars, 20 MRLS, nine anti-tank complexes, 45 rocket-propelled grenade, 14 air defense systems, 12 homemade launchers "Hellfire", and 56 heavy machine guns.
earlier it was reported, that Syrian army forces cleared the Yarmuk – the last stronghold of the banned Russian terrorist group "Islamic State *" in the south of Damascus.
recall, the Syrian capital was under attack from terrorist groups 2011 of the year.
For the release of Western and Eastern Guta, Damascus suburbs, 21 May said the Syrian state agency SANA.
