The Islamic state is compressed. Lost almost 30%. site – Wprost.pl

Experts point out that from January 2015 Daesh has lost 28 percent of previously controlled areas. During the first nine months of this year, the territory occupied by the jihadists fell from 78 km2 to 65 thousand. km2. As explained by bi-BI-si, this is the area equal to that which is Sri Lanka. Researchers from IHS pay attention, however, that in the last three months of the coalition at a slower pace, reflecting the land occupied by the Caliphate.

Analysts attribute this slowing with the decrease in the number of raids perpetrated by the Russians. At the beginning of this year, almost 26%. air strikes Russia, fall into the position IS, in the summer, this figure had fallen to 17 percent. In September last year, President Putin said that Russia’s mission is to combat international terrorism, in particular Islamic State, commented Alex Kochczarow, Russian employee of IHS.

research Center, explains that “the main priority of Russia is providing military support to the government and – most of all – the transformation of the Syrian civil war because of the conflict, which involved many subjects in the bipolar battle between the Syrian government and jihadi groups such as the so-called Islamic State”. IHS experts, in spite of this, we estimate that the territorial losses of the Daesh are still significant.