77th month of Russia’s military operations in Syria | Nearly 900 airstrikes kill and wound 100 ISIS fighters in Syrian desert

The Russian forces completed their 77th month of military operations in Syria along with Syrian regime. SOHR activists have not documented the killing of any civilians by Russian fighter jets during the fifth month of the seventh year.

In the 77th month of Russia’s military operations in Syria, SOHR activists have documented the killing of 38 ISIS members and the injury of 59 others in over 900 Russian airstrikes on their positions in the Syrian desert in February.

 

Between the 30th of September 2015 and the 27th of February 2022, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 21,016 persons distributed as follows:

 

8,683 civilians: 2,108 children under the age of eighteen, 1,321 females over the age of eighteen, 5,254 men and young people

6,108 ISIS members

6,225 fighters of rebel and Islamic Factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Turkestani Party, and fighters of Arab and foreign nationalities.

 

SOHR sources have reported that Russia used the “Thermite” in their airstrikes, a substance composed of aluminum powder and iron oxide which causes burns because it continues to ignite for about 180 seconds, some the bombs used by Russian jets on the Syrian territory were loaded with this substance.

 

It has been discovered that they are “RBK-500 ZAB 2.5 SM” cluster incendiary bombs each weighed about 500 kg (about 1100 pounds) and they were dropped by the military aircraft. They carried anti-individuals and anti-vehicles small sized bombs of the type ((AO 2.5 RTM)), loaded with from 50 to 110 small-sized bombs stuffed with “Thermite”, which outpour out of it when they explode, the range of this anti-individuals and anti-vehicles bombs reaches 20 to 30 meters.