Russia has never supplied Syria with Iskander, a tactic missiles system, or other offensive weapons, head of Russia's military exporting corporation said Wednesday.

"We have no contracts of the shipments," Anatoly Isaikin, director general of the state-run Rosoboronexport, told the reporters.

Russia had only delivered to Syria ground-to-air systems while Iskander is an advanced ground-to-ground first-strike complex with a range of 500 km, said Isaikin, adding Moscow sustained military-technical cooperation with the war-torn country because Damascus had not yet been under the UN Security Council's sanctions.

"We are continuing to fulfill our obligations on contracts for the delivery of military hardware," the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying, citing Syria ranked 12th or 13th place among the clients of Russian arms trade.

Isaikin also denied that Russia was planning to supply MiG-29M fighters to Damascus while confirming that it had a deal for Yak-130 training planes.

Rosoboronexport signed with Syria contracts valued at a record high of 17.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, a 2.5-fold growth from 2011, said Isaikin. Endi

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