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Positional fights are going on within Jobar.
Preemptive strikes are dealt to terrorists.
We'll go to the frontline today and film what terrorists bring with them.
I've been filming tank recovery [operation] here and each turn in this deadly maze keeps its history.
We follow the soldiers' advancement path.
There were fights for each room here.
I got used to these piles of broken bricks, remains of houses and someone's lives.
About 100,000 people have been living here before militants entered this district.
Now they've been left homeless and had to flee from this area to avoid becoming victims...
One has to bow here despite of the trenches
as snipers from Jobar's depth keep firing upon the streets.
This is a spare tunnel that militants have been making towards Zamalka.
They haven't managed to finish it.
There has been one slave here when Syrian Arab Army fighters came here.
It is being found out whether he's a captured soldier or a plain civilian.
He's extremely starved.
Thus militants use slave labour to construct their tunnels.
And it's unknown yet what happens to those slaves later.
They're killed most probably.
- "We've destroyed eight militants here when we cleaned up this house"
- "We've found this pit and a starved man inside while inspecting the house"
- "He was ill and told that he was Syrian Arab Army soldier and has been captured"
- "Has been forced to dig this tunnel"
- "We stormed this place and destroyed eight militants"
- "Then found a captured soldier here"
- "Militants forced him to dig a tunnel to Zamalka"
- "He was very starved and ill"
- "We sent him to hospital at once"
- "We'll reach all the terrorists on our soil anyways"
This is an improvised militant hospital.
The prisoner has been dying fifteen meters away from here where terrorists have been curing their fighters.
The doctor who has been curing bandits has apparently forgotten Hippocratic oath completely
and hasn't been trying to care for the prisoner.
This tunnel under the road has been dug out by militants.
It's used by Syrian Arab Army soldiers now.
- "This underground passage has been used by armed groups
to move the militants and transport weapons"
- "We've killed three terrorists and freed four civilians here when we captured this passage"
- "They've been used as slaves to dig tunnels and saps"
It's neccessary to be careful at the end of the tunnel
as one has to raise over the ground and quickly move into basement.
There were weapon stashes within these basements.
In these casks.
This building hasn't been finished yet
and plastic casks [dug into the ground] have been an excellent way to hide weapons and ammunition
as the militants have been concentrating in Jobar covertly and then dealt a blow from behind to self defense squads.
These beams have been put over the five meter wide trench and it's dangerous to walk these
as snipers are constantly firing from Zamalka side.
We go around.
We go around via the basement.
Syrian Arab Army fighters keep the positions head to head here so to say:
five meters away from the building where militants have entrenched.
These are the marks of bandits' stay in this building.
We went to the high-rise building's top.
One can observe Zamalka which is still controlled by militants from this place.
It's unsafe to loom with camera here as this building is fired upon by militant snipers.
The road has been blocked by burned truck trailers.
The militants have blocked the highway in this way.
Militants speed across right in front of Syrian soldiers' positions making use of the distance.
Andrey Filatov, Victor Kuznetsov, Grigory Nesterov, Marat Musin. ANNA-News. Damascus.