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Russia's air force has blasted an ISIS stronghold in Syria from more than 600 miles away using its most modern cruise missile technology.

Tu-95MS long-range strategic bombers departed Wednesday from an airfield in the southern Russian city of Engels equipped with the latest Kh-101 long-range cruise missiles.

They successfully targeted an ISIS command center and three weapons storage depots in Aqirbat, a town in the western governorate of Hama, according to a Russian Defense Ministry statement.

The aircraft were reportedly supported by Su-30SM fighters based in Syria's Hmeymim airbase, which has been leased to Russia by the Moscow-backed Syrian government.

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Moscow carried out the attack just two days before President Vladimir Putin and U.S. counterpart Donald Trump are due to hold their first face-to-face meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, and after the Kremlin said they would discuss whether they were ready to team up against Islamic State in Syria.

The Russian Defence Ministry uploaded the video saying in a statement the attack was carried out by Tupolev-95MS strategic bombers which had taken off from a base on Russian soil and refuelled mid-air before firing at targets on the border between the Hama and Homs provinces.

"The strikes were carried out using high-precision Kh-101 missiles from a distance of about 1,000 kilometres," the ministry said in a statement. Such missiles were capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 4,500 kilometres (2,800 miles) and could carry nuclear warheads, the ministry added.

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The Tupolev-95MS can carry eight such missiles at any one time.

The ministry did not say how many aircraft took part in the attack, but said the strategic bombers had been escorted by Sukhoi-30SM fighters from Russia's air base in Syria's Latakia province.

All of the bombers had returned to their home base in Russia safely, it said.