An exclusive footage from Syria, where ISIS militants romised to make Deir ez-Zor their ca ital. They took over it 3 years ago. Today Syrian army of terrorists are knocking out from the ruined streets. Our military corres ondent Evgeny Poddubny tells that there are no more than 100 m between the militants and the Syrian forces. Why is nobody retreating? Here is why. This is a legendary Syrian Re ublican General Issam Zahreddine. He fought in Homs, Damascus, Qamishli and for the last few years here. The General is always on the frontline. He su ervises the actions of his officers. Thanks to him and the soldiers of Zahreddine's division there is still no black flag of the seudo-Khalifat in Deir ez-Zor. These are the recruits, who just recently arrived to the city. More ex erienced officers give them lessons. 100 m away from the o osition. They learn how to fight in buildings. If your arm is hurt, you can reload the gun with one hand, like this. General Zahreddine ex lains to the recruits how to neutralize the terrorists and not die. This soldier oses as an ISIS militant. Always. His hair is like this because he swore not to go to the barber until they win. Aihan has been fighting for about 5 years. I offered to lay the terrorist during the lessons. A lot of militants look like me. I want the recruits to get used to the kind of enemy they'll face. New soldiers must be careful and ay close attention. Take care of themselves and not waste the ammo. One bullet er terrorist. That's what we say here — we need victory, victory and also victory. There are no more than 500 m from the frontline to the rear. Terrorists fire through whole blocks daily. There's no safe lace in Deir ez-Zor. Within 24 hours over 10 injured get admitted to the military hos ital and to the only civilians' hos ital. And that's every day. I was leaving the mosque after my rayer. That's when the ISIS drone dro ed a bomb. It ex loded, injuring me and 9 others. We need hel in the city. Stuff like that ha ens here every day. Because of the ISIS blockade, there's a disastrous humanitarian situation in Deir ez-Zor. There's no fuel, not enough clean water and food. There's only technical water for a short eriod of time once a week. Russian humanitarian mission re resentatives delivered water filters to the city. 500 devices were given to the medical staff of the Assad hos ital. Each filter can urify around 20,000 liters. They set u a water discharge oint for all in need. Here RHM re s and the hos ital ersonnel gave filters to eo le that live in the active combat zone.
