31 has focused Moscow's anger on the Sunni Islamic extremist group. Russian planes have targeted ISIS fighters and infrastructure more frequently in recent weeks, and the group's apparent role in smuggling a bomb onto a Russian passenger plane that was blown up over Egypt on Oct. Moscow initially claimed it was focusing its attacks on ISIS militants, but it was clear the real focus was other groups pushing toward Assad's stronghold in Damascus. Russia dramatically upped its stake in the Syrian war at the end of Sepetember, unleashing a wave of airstrikes against rebel groups that were putting significant pressure on Assad's beleagured military. Russia launches airstrikes in Syria 02:18 It was the first time in five decades that a NATO member had shot down a Russian plane. The shootdown of a Russian jet highlights the tense situation in the skies over Syria, where a growing list of nations - with often divergent interests - are carrying out airstrikes. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the varying reports. Turkey said the plane was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter jets, but the Russians said ground-based artillery hit the Su-24.
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The Su-24 crashed down in part of northwest Syria where Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army and Turkmen rebels hold territory. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the U.S.-led miltiary coalition in Iraq and Syrai, confirmed that American military were "able to hear everything that was going on" as the Russian and Turkish pilots communicated, and said the Turks had warned the Su-24 pilots 10 times to change course.ĭ'Agata said Russian helicopters were seen flying over the area of the crash in an apparent search and rescue operation for their lost crewmen. Speaking in Moscow, the deputy head of the Russian Duma, the lower house of Parliament, said the strike against the Russian jet was carried out with U.S. A Russian Su-24 fighter jet crashes in flames in a mountainous area in northern Syria after it was shot down by Turkish fighter jets near the Turkish-Syrian border, Nov. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov a planned visit to the Turkish capital he had been scheduled to make on Wednesday, and the ministry released a statement warning Russian nationals against traveling to Turkey. "We will never tolerate such atrocities as happened today and we hope that the international community will find the strength to join forces and fight this evil," Putin said on Russian television.
"It's as if Turkey wants to put NATO at the service of ISIS." "Instead of discussing the incident with Moscow, they turned to their NATO partners as if it was us who downed their jet," Putin said. He said Moscow considered the shoot-down a "stab in the back by the terrorists' accomplices," and accused Turkey of helping ISIS. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the incident would have "significant consequences" for his country's relations with Turkey, and insisting that the Su-24 jet remained just less than a mile inside Syrian airspace on a mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS). That claim could not be independently verified, and there were also reports in Turkish media suggesting at least one pilot could still be alive. He said Turkey harbors no "enmity" toward Russia or any other nation.Ī Turkmen rebel commander later told Turkey's Dogan news agency that both pilots were shot and killed by his forces after parachuting to the ground. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the nation was simply following its rules of engagement when it shot down the plane. Turkey said it warned the jet 10 times before shooting it down. A radar image released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense purportedly shows the flightpath of a Russian Su-24 fighter jet over southern Turkey's Hatay Province (Turkish territory outlined in blue), Nov. Turkish officials said the Su-24 was warned as it flew over Yaylidag, in Turkey's southern Hatay province, and the Ministry of Defense released radar images purportedly showing the Ru-24's flightpath over the southern tip of Turkey's Hatay province, which juts down into northern Syria. The Turkish Defense Ministry was quoted by Reuters as saying the Russian jet was warned 10 times within five minutes to leave Turkish airspace before it was shot down. The Ministry of Defense would like to stress that the plane was over the Syrian territory throughout the flight," the Russian ministry said in a statement. "We are looking into the circumstances of the crash of the Russian jet.
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