Russian forces build bridge across Euphrates closes to Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr
The Russian Defense Ministry have released footage showing military forces building a bridge across a on the Euphrates River close to Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr province.
“A panel bridge was erected in less than two days, despite constant shelling,” said the head of the road service of the Russian Defense Ministry, Vladimir Burovtsev, on Tuesday.
“Drones were deployed. During the installation work, explosives and grenades were falling on us. Nevertheless we have no losses, neither wounded nor killed. Everything was erected on time,” he added.
He noted that the bridge is around 210 meters long and can be used for delivering humanitarian aid and evacuating the wounded. It is also capable of carrying the weight of heavy vehicles such as tanks and armored troop carriers.
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Daesh overran large parts of Dayr al-Zawr province, including its many oil fields, in mid-2014 as it seized swathes of land in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
By early 2015, the Takfiri terrorists were in control of some parts of Dayr al-Zawr city and besieged the remaining parts, which were under government control. It is estimated that 100,000 people remain in the government-held parts of the city.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that more than 10,000 people may be living in the Daesh-held parts of Dayr al-Zawr.
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