“And you know what? We follow the third (the person of the former head of the IG *. - RT ). The third one has big problems now, because we know where he is, ”said the head of state, addressing the New York Economic Club.
On October 27, Trump announced that IG leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was liquidated during a US special operation in Syria, and on October 29, the US president said that American soldiers had destroyed the first deputy leader of the IS.
In turn, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the agency does not have reliable information about the US military conducting an operation to destroy the leader of the Islamic State.
* “Islamic State” (IG) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.