Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in an exclusive interview for Youtube-channel “Soloviev Live” said that during the counter-terrorist operation in Syria, Russia faced professional and organized terrorists.
“When we just started working in Syria, we pretty quickly understood that it was still a technician who came from Iraq that on the side of those who did not accept the arrival in Iraq troops and another state, such very professional and Very trained actions of troops. It is the troops, I don’t call them differently – the troops of the bandits, the troops of the international terrorists. These are not banal bandits from the street, this is a well-organized structure, “said Shoigu.
According to him, terrorists introduced a monetary system and a centralized tax system. “In case you send money, including metal coins that were printed – now they are no longer printed – and paper money. They had a whole tax system,” added the head of the Ministry of Defense.
The terrorists have placed and established a medical system of rehabilitation and recovery of the wounded, noted Shoigu. “And when we understand that we are tracking there to transfer the wounded there on 20, 30, and even 50 people in other states, that is, the evacuation system was organized by the wounded to other places – where you can treat them,” said Shoigu .