Russian Journalists Hurt In Syria

Three were lightly injured and one shell-shocked, TASS reports.

Russian journalists have started pouring into the country by Russian aircrafts under the authority of the Russian Defense Ministry to cover the Russian airstrikes that have started pounding the militant groups’ positions in Syria since late September.

Russian airstrikes over the past five days have destroyed 1,000 tankers of stolen crude oil the Islamic State (IS) group was moving in the countryside of Syria’s northern province of al-Raqqa, state news agency SANA reported on Monday.

Rami Abdulrahman from the Observatory, which tracks the conflict in Syria though a wide network of sources, said at least ten people were on the helicopter when it was hit by the insurgents but they were all evacuated when it landed and before the missile destroyed it.

Kosarev said the press convoy was hit by an anti-tank missile which appeared to have been released from a rebel-controlled area approximately 2.5km away.

TASS correspondent Alexander Yelistratov and RT’s Sargon Khadaya both suffered shrapnel injuries, while Roman Kosarev, also from RT, suffered a concussion.

Assad said in an interview published Sunday that government troops were advancing on “nearly every front” thanks to the Russian air strikes, with Syrian state media reporting the regime had taken control over Maheen and Hawareen in the southeast of Homs province.