TASS: Defense chief vows response to Israel’s actions that caused fatal crash of Il-20 aircraft
The Russian defense minister says Israeli F-16s delivered strikes on Syria using the Russian Il-20 recon plane as cover
MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. Russia will respond to actions on behalf of the Israeli Air Force that led to a fatal crash of Russia’s Il-20 aircraft on Monday late night in Syria, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
"We have informed today our Israeli colleagues, and I have also informed personally the Israeli Defense Minister [Avigdor Lieberman], that such actions will not be left unanswered by us," Shoigu said.
The Russian Il-20 that was shot down by Syrian air defense systems had been conducting reconnaissance activity in the Idlib de-escalation zone before the crash, he said.
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Update #1: Russia blames Israel for plane shot down by Syrian missile (AP)
Update #2: 'Irresponsible': Russia lashes out at Israel after military plane downed in Syria attack (National Post/Bloomberg)
WNU Editor: An ominous warning from Prussian President Putin .... Putin: 'Everyone will notice' Russia's response to downing of plane (Washington Post).
Not that ominous when viewed with the rest of that statement. There's more bark than bite there.
ReplyDeleteAnalysis Putin Absolves Israel Over Syria Strike, but Crisis With Moscow Reaches All the Way to Tehran
ReplyDelete---Monday’s incident near Latakia, in which 15 Russian soldiers were killed in a downed plane, might see Russia toughen its stance toward Israel and curtail the air force’s freedom of action in Syria
He hasn't absolved them of anything
DeleteAbout time Russia did something. Eff Israel
ReplyDeleteThe Russians do not want to tangle with neither the Israeli nor American Air Force in Syria, they will lose.
ReplyDeleteDo what exactly? Take out the Syrian SAM site?
ReplyDeleteCreate an exclusion zone
DeleteI hope they don't schedule the air war during a rainstorm. The F-35's will have to sit that one out. Legacy fighters should be up to the task.
ReplyDeleteGreat job, as usual, military-industrial complex.
Promised to who? Promised by who? The Phoenicians?
ReplyDeletePromised by the u.n lol
DeleteJews were in Palestine in the 20th century long before the UN came about.
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