Original upload date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT
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Syria - Russian submarine "Rostov-on-Don" launches missiles at Raqqa - December 2015
Russian media reports that a Russian diesel-electric submarine operating submerged in the Mediterranean Sea on Tue
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sday launched Kalibr cruise missiles at targets in Syria.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday the military had launched strikes in Syria for the first time from a submarine stationed in the Mediterranean.
"We used Kalibr cruise missiles from the Rostov-on-Don submarine from the Mediterranean Sea," Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported.
Putin: "We can say with absolute confidence that significant damage has been inflicted upon ammunition warehouses and a mine production plant, as well as the oil infrastructure."