(sputnik) -- The Russian Defense Ministry doubts London's "major contribution" to the campaign against Isis terrorist group, which has been recently stated by UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, the Russian ministry's spokesman said on Friday.

On Thursday, Fallon said that London had significantly contributed to combating Isis since 2014, "forcing this miserable cult from the gates of Baghdad to the brink of defeat in Raqqa." The defense secretary also noted the UK forces' role in striking the terrorists' targets and training their allies' personnel.

"As the defeat of the Isis in Syria by the Syrian forces assisted by the Russian Aerospace Forces is getting closer, it turned out suddenly that for all these years somewhere behind our back UK Defense Minister Michael Fallon has been most of all helping to destroy terrorists. According to Fallon, the United Kingdom has made a major contribution to the campaign to disrupt the capabilities of the 'miserable cult' of Isis since 2014… This raises the question: where were all these 'forces of good' in mid-2015 when Isis captured a third of Iraq and the wholeof Syria," Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.

Commenting on Fallon's words that the UK forces have hit Isis in Syria and Iraq with over 1,500 airstrikes since 2014, Konashenkov noted that the Russian Aerospace Forces had carried out over 99,000 strikes in Syria alone which subsequently lead to the turning-point in the fight against the terrorists.

Since an official request from Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2015, the Russian Aerospace Forces have been supporting the Syrian government forces in their fight to rid the country of the terrorists.

(Photo: Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation)