The Ministry of Defense reported that the chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy, told that the province of Aleppo is completely liberated from terrorists, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Rudskoy also noted that the Syrian army is attacking the position of terrorists in the province of Rakka at a rate of more than 30 km per day.
He recalled that on the night of 11 to 12 August, with the support of Russian aviation, the Syrian army conducted a unique operation to land a tactical landing in the rear of militants near the settlement of El-Kender in the province of Rakka.
As it was informed earlier today, the RF CC RF liquidated more than 200 militants who were going to Deir-ez-Zor.