RT: US-led coalition not striking ISIS oil trucks despite evidence - Russia’s General Staff
Despite mounting evidence of ISIS oil smuggling, the US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq is not striking convoys of oil trucks heading to Turkey, Russia’s General Staff has said.
“It’s hard not to notice” the thousands of trucks used by terrorists for oil smuggling, Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy, deputy commander of the General Staff, said at a briefing in Moscow on Wednesday.
“However, we see no strikes on those convoys by the coalition - only a tripling in the number of strategic UAVs has been observed,” he said.
With the US and its allies unwilling to act, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported the locations where Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) oil tankers are concentrated, Rudskoy said.
WNU editor: The Pentagon disagrees .... Top US general: We’ve disrupted 40% of ISIS’ oil revenue just over the past month (Reuters). What's my take .... the U.S. is only boasting now that they are destroying these oil facilities .... but where have they been for the past year? Why now?
More News On Russia Targeting The Islamic State's Oil Faciltiies
Russia'a airstrikes cause twofold decline in IS oil production in Syria — general -- TASS
Video: Combat cam - Russian warplanes target ISIS oil facilities in Syria -- Belfast Telegraph
Russia Conducts 32 Airstrikes on Daesh Oil Refineries in Syria in 2 Months -- Sputnik
Russia wants to stop ISIS’ illegal oil trade – Churkin -- RT
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