The Army General said at a meeting with military attaches that, in addition to air strikes, the Russian military supplies the Syrians with ammunition and war materiel as a contribution to the war against the ISIL and other extremist groups.
During the meeting held at the National Defense Center, Gerasimov said that Moscow thus contributes to the joint efforts of the regular army and Syrian opposing groups to defeat the terrorists.
The officer reported that a contingent over five thousand-strong, the Free Syrian Army, operates in the regions of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa.
The Chief of Staff stressed as well that the combined airstrikes and assaults in the ground against terrorist targets pulverize oil refining plants, pumping stations and means of transportation of oil, to deprive terrorists of their sources of funding.
