This is ‘FOR PARIS’ – Russian pilots write messages to the terrorists on their bombs before launching air raids and cruise missile strikes against ISIS

Russian military are inscribing ‘For Paris’ on bombs destined for targets in Syria, in solidarity with the victims of the attacks in the French capital. Russian Defense Ministry says more than 600 ISIS terrorists militants were killed as a result of cruise missile strikes in Syria.

A Russian ground crew member writes ‘For Paris’ on the side of a bomb destined for Syria

UK Daily Mail  Russia unleashed cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea at targets across Syria, as Moscow kept up its intensified bombardments in the already war-torn country.  Moscow fired 18 missiles from ships in its Caspian Sea fleet at seven targets in the Raqqa, Idlib and Aleppo provinces, according to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.

A video posted online today by the Defence Minister also shows a member of ground crew writing ‘For Ours’ on a bomb at Russia’s Hmeymim airbase. ‘Pilots and technicians of Hmeymim airbase have sent their message to terrorists by priority airmail,’ said a caption accompanying the post.

Russian Defence Ministry also shows a message being written by an air force technician saying ‘For Ours’

It was the second time that warships have been used since the start of the bombing campaign on September 30. Moscow has stepped up its strikes in Syria with long-distance bombers after confirming for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb downed a Russian airliner in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.

President Vladimir Putin was told in a briefing by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu  that cruise missile strikes against one target near the ISIS-controlled city of Deir Ezzor had killed ‘more than 600 fighters’.

Minister Shoigu also told President Putin that Russian planes destroyed 15 oil refining and storage facilities in Syria and 525 trucks carrying oil during this week’s bombing blitz. He said this deprived ISIS of $1.5million (£990,000) in daily income from oil sales.

The Britain-based Observatory said it had documented at least 50 strikes in different parts of the oil-rich province, large parts of which are controlled by ISIS. It said dozens of oil tankers and other vehicles used for transporting crude-oil had been destroyed. 

‘This is the first time Deir Ezzor has experienced strikes of this intensity,’ the monitor said.