Over the past couple of years, the monthly incomes of Islamic terrorists have declined several times. This was the result of the successful actions of the Air and Space Forces (VCS) of Russia and the American coalition in the Middle East. True, this made terrorists more dangerous: they intend to avenge their own impoverishment. This statement was made by Deputy Director of the Department for Emerging Challenges and Threats of the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Feoktistov.

Speaking to reporters in New York on the results of bilateral Russian-American consultations on combating the financing of terrorism, the diplomat said that operations to destroy the energy infrastructure of terrorists have yielded good results: "IG income (the Islamic state group banned in the Russian Federation) from the sale of oil and Of gas decreased in the last year or two almost twofold - from $ 50 million to $ 12 - 20 million monthly ".

According to Feoktistov, Russia and the United States sent data on the destruction of property and sources of terrorist incomes to the International Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). These reports were consolidated by the secretariat of the group into a single document called "Financing IG".

It says that since the beginning of the operation, the United States has destroyed about 2 thousand in the territories of Syria and Iraq. Petrol tankers that transported illegally extracted IG oil. Russia, in turn, since the beginning of the Russian Air Force in Syria - since September 2015. - destroyed about 4 thousand. Petrol tankers, 206 oil and gas production facilities, 176 oil processing facilities and 112 oil transfer facilities.

There are suspicions that the militants will try to take revenge on participants of anti-terrorist operations in Syria and Iraq for the lost profit. Therefore, Russia and the Western countries should consolidate their efforts to protect themselves from attempts of new terrorist attacks, the Foreign Ministry noted..

Loss of revenues from oil production and sales, terrorists try to compensate them for illegal financial transactions. Russia has information on the attempts of militants to invest in projects in Europe through Middle Eastern banks.

"We to the Americans, in support of their words, gave specific names to Middle Eastern banks that are involved in the fact that they are investing in two Western European countries," Feoktistov said, without specifying which European countries are talking about. At the same time, he stressed that "the Americans took this information into consideration and expressed their gratitude to us". Previously, there was information about the attempts of IG to invest in real estate in New York and Turkey.

Terrorists continue to seek new sources of funding. They engage in extortions from the civilian population, demand ransom for abducted people, trade in artifacts. They also do not lose hope "to take the Afghan drug traffic" to their hands, to establish control over the mass transportation of refugees to Europe. There are also attempts to invest in pharmacology, medicine, construction business. The group also markets wheat and rye.

The militants expect to compensate for losses and through trade in other minerals. Feoktistov said that in Iraq, terrorists took control of the phosphate mine and phosphoric acid production facility, and in Syria - salt mines, several cement plants and some other enterprises.