The Russian defence ministry released a video showing the launch of 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea against ISIS in Syria. The guided missiles flew overnight over Iran and Iraq.

“The cruise missiles hit all the assigned targets. The deviation from aims during the long-range engagement did not exceed 3 meters,” according to the ministry’s statement.

Plants producing ammunition and explosives, command centres, storages of munitions, armament and POL as well as a training camp of terrorists on the territory of the Raqqah, Idlib and Aleppo provinces were engaged, they said.