Trouble connecting to Tass is reported by him, but Tass is reporting this within the last half hour.
Online sources are pointing to France as the suspect with a French warship shooting the Russian aircraft down.
Ivan has a pointed goatee?
3 possibilities at this time:
1. Israel: Unlikely. They coordinate their strikes on Syria with Russia.
2. France: Unknown. Why are French ships even in the area and why are they firing rockets?
3. Syria: Possible. Was shooting air defenses at incoming Israeli missiles & plans. Could have been “friendly fire”.
You don’t have to post it as clickbait. It’s only three sentences. And it’s not even the blogger’s own content. Sheesh. Enough with the blog pimping disguised as “breaking news.”
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This appears to be the shooting down of a Russian aircraft with US source saying Syrian AA missiles did it and accusations that a French warship fired a missile to take it down.
It comes hours after Turkey and Russia agreed to a buffer zone in northern Syria to move militant Al-Qaeda forces further north into unpopulated areas away from the Syrian military.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached agreement at a meeting in Sochi, Russia today.
The rebels and isis are in Idlib. So of the western allies attack Latakia, home of a Russian base. It’s really looking like the west is wanting a nato/russia conventional fight while simultaneously protecting isis.
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A Russian maritime patrol aircraft with multiple personnel on board was inadvertently shot down by Syrian regime anti-aircraft artillery on Monday after the Syrians came under attack by Israeli missiles, according to a US official with knowledge of the incident
The US official said the regime was actually trying to stop a barrage of Israeli missiles. A second official confirmed that Israel was responsible for the missile strikes on the Syrian regime.
The Russian state news agency TASS reported that a Russian IL-20 military aircraft with 14 personnel on board disappeared over the Mediterranean on Monday. According to TASS, the ministry of defense specified that “the mark of IL-20 went off the radars disappeared during the attack of four Israeli F-16 aircraft on Syrian targets in the province of Latakia.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/syrian-regime-shoots-down-russian-plane/index.html
Looking for a more reliable source.
That is a rough looking plane; especially the engines. Needs a little grinding, body filler and paint.
Ukrainian army shot it down.
Jamming?