Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday described the shelling of Moscow’s Embassy in Damascus as an “act of terror” aimed at intimidating those who support Moscow’s bombing campaign in Syria.

“It is a clear act of terror meant to scare supporters of fighting terrorism,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow, after two rockets struck the Russian Embassy compound.

Nobody was killed during the incident which took place as some 300 people were rallying near the embassy in support of Russia’s recent intervention in Syria.

Demonstrators had been waving Russian flags and holding up large photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We are counting on the perpetrators being found and that measures be taken to prevent such acts in the future,” Lavrov said, adding Moscow would investigate the incident along with Syrian authorities.

Russia’s air force hit 86 “terrorist” targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday, in the highest one-day tally since it launched its bombing campaign on Sept. 30.

“In the last 24 hours, Su-34, Su-24M and Su-25SM planes carried out 88 sorties against 86 terrorist infrastructure targets in the provinces of Raqqa, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo,” the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said the strikes destroyed a command post outside the town of Anadan, located 16 km northwest of Aleppo, which it said was used by Daesh fighters to coordinate their movements in the area.

Other strikes in the Daesh stronghold of Al-Bab, located in the Aleppo region, saw the destruction of a field command center and an ammunition depot.

The Russian air force said it had attacked a convoy transporting fuel and ammunition in the Aleppo region.

Strikes outside the village of Latamneh in Hama province destroyed an underground ammunition bunker, the ministry said.

“According to radio intercepts of talks between field commanders in the provinces of Hama and Homs, the fighters are experiencing an acute shortage of ammunition for small arms and grenade launchers,” the ministry said.

“Some field commanders have informed their superiors that if they don’t receive ammunition in the near future, they will lead their gangs away from the combat zone.”

Separately, Russian security officials have released new details about a group suspected of planning a terror attack in Moscow with support from the Daesh, saying it was comprised of 12 Russian citizens, including at least one who had been trained in Syria.

Only three suspects have been identified so far and all are from Chechnya.

They appeared Tuesday in a Moscow court, which ordered them held for two months.

Security officials previously had not said how many suspects were arrested following Sunday’s raid of a Moscow apartment where explosives were found.

The head of the Federal Security Service said Tuesday one of the 12 suspects, Aslan Baisultanov, had been trained in Syria.

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