Shoigu called the principal results of the year the operations in Syria – RBC

Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

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Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appreciated the results of the operation in Syria, which began a year ago. On the one hand, according to him, managed to stabilize the situation in the country, with another — to test advanced weapons in the desert and apply a new rocket.

Thanks to high-precision long-range weapons and which are effective and military equipment managed to stabilize the situation in the country and the release of militants a substantial territory. This was stated by the Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu on military-technical conference, devoted to the improvement of weapons, summing up the year of the military operation in Syria, reports “RIA Novosti”.

“a year has Passed, how our armed forces to perform combat missions in the Syrian Arab Republic. During this time, managed to stabilize the situation in the country, to release a significant part of its territory from armed groups of international terrorists, to organize the work of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the warring parties,” — said Shoigu.

According to the head of the defense Ministry, the army also gained practical experience of firing precision weapons long range from surface ships and submarines from the waters of the Caspian and Mediterranean seas, and strategic aviation aircraft in a real combat situation for the first time used a new air-launched missiles X-101 with a range of up to 4.5 thousand km.

Shoigu noted that many domestic models of weapons that have been audited in terms of the Syrian desert, has shown its reliability and efficiency.

Now in Russia, a promising arms, the drafting of which were taken into account the Syrian experience, said Shoigu. The conference will hear the views and advice of experts, as this technique can be modified, he added.

Previously, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the main outcome of the military operation in Syria, which began on September 30, 2015, was the fact that the terrorists failed to capture Damascus.

Sand it was stressed that Vladimir Putin has never indicated the specific deadlines of the operation, calling it the purpose of combating terrorists. To evaluate the success of the operation should the military experts, he said.

As he wrote RBC, the operation in Syria could cost the Russian budget not less than 58 billion rubles. According to the calculations of RBC, the majority of costs came in sorties of aircraft and launch cruise missiles. Aerospace forces made about 13 thousand sorties, with a total value of about 50 billion rubles a year in Syria was launched 56 rockets of type “Gauge” at a cost of 2.8 billion rubles., During the military campaign Russia lost a su-24 bomber, shot down Turkish air force and Mi-8 helicopters, Mi-28N and Mi-35. The damage amounted to 3.34 billion rubles personnel cost 2.1 billion rubles payments to the families of those killed during operation is 60 million rubles.