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Turkey one of main financial sources of IS â€“ Russian MoD

02 December 2015 15:06 (UTC +04:00)

According to available information, Turkish officials have illegal business relationship with IS, said Antonov.

“We have so far revealed only part of the facts available to us which point out Turkish elite’s links with the terrorist organization,” he noted.

Antonov said Russia’s goal is the prevention of financing of IS not to achieve the resignation of Turkish President Erdogan.

Sergei Rutskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operations Directorate, said the income of IS was about $3 million per day, and after two months of Russian airstrikes their income was about $1.5 million a day.

“For the past two months, Russia’s airstrikes hit 32 oil complexes, 12 refineries. Rudskoy said, adding that the Russian military had also destroyed 1,080 trucks carrying oil products,” he added.

At the briefing the ministry presented photos of oil trucks, videos of airstrikes on IS oil storage facilities and maps detailing the movement of smuggled oil.