On the outskirts of Tadmor (Palmyra), the Russian military conducted an engineering reconnaissance of the terrain, discovered a large ammunition. This was announced by defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, reports “Interfax”.
“From the hiding place of terrorists, the Russian sappers have cleared more than 12 thousand explosive objects. Including mines for large-caliber mortar guns, artillery shells and anti-personnel mines”, — he told.
In addition, in the hiding-place were discovered about one thousand electric detonators, and improvised radio detonators.
Konashenkov explained that the Arsenal was mined stretch marks with nine bombs. According to him, this is one of the largest warehouses of ammunition terrorists found in Syria. At the moment, organized the export of explosives for destruction.
Earlier, on 21 April, the chief of engineering troops of armed forces of Russia Yury Stavitskiy said that the historic core of Palmyra cleared. At the moment the Russian sappers have to explore another 560 hectares of urban buildings of Tadmor.
With March 29-30 in Syria were deployed several groups of Russian military engineers, including cynologists with specially trained dogs, and the unit with robotic engineering systems “Uran-6”. The bomb squad using armored vehicles with equipment suppression of radio detonators.
The ancient city of Palmyra — a UNESCO world heritage site was under the control of terrorists “Islamic state” (banned in Russia) in may 2015. During the occupation, were killed about 280 people. On March 27, the Syrian military announced that army units, backed by the Syrian and Russian air force returned control of the city.
