Russia Scrawls Messages on Cruise Missiles–Before Sending Bombs to Syria to

It added that the missiles, fired by its fleet in the Caspian Sea, “dealt a massive blow”, with “all targets hit”.

The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says that in the Russian Defence Ministry video soldiers can be seen writing messages on the bombs before loading them onto the aircraft – phrases like: “This is revenge for our dead” and “This is for Paris”.

There were separate reports of a pair of Russian cruise missiles flying low over the Aleppo Province in the direction of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa. French President Francois Hollande is set to travel to Washington and Moscow next week for talks on joint military action against ISIS, and Putin already has ordered the military to cooperate with the French.

The pilots also wrote “For ours” and “For our people” on some missiles before sending them to Syria, with targets including the Raqqa province where the terror group Islamic State has been frequenting recently.

“Over the past 48 days, the Russian air grouping has performed 2,289 sorties and delivered 4,111 missile and bomb strikes against major infrastructure facilities and the concentrations of the militants’ armor and personnel”, he said.

“The French strikes against oil sites controlled by Daesh (Islamic State) are part of legitimate self-defence”, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told reporters on Friday.

Russian politicians have stated the need for the West and the Kremlin to put aside past transgressions and join together against ISIS terrorists in Syria, according to Reuters.

Moscow also uses bombers from Russian airbases to launch air strikes.

The directors of Arbil and Sulaimaniyah airports both confirmed that flights had been suspended, mentioning the danger of Russian missiles but not the bombers referred to in the Civil Aviation Authority’s statement.

The Turkish government is vehemently opposed to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, while Russian Federation says its air campaign is justified because Mr Assad requested it.

It was the second time that warships have been used since the start of the bombing campaign on September 30.

Flights operating out of Beirut airport will continue unaffected despite a notice of planned Russian naval drills in the Mediterranean, airport official Ibrahim Abu Alioun said on Friday.