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Kremlin confirms that Su-25 was shot down with Russian air defense system in Syria
Major Roman Filipov’s Su-25 assault jet was shot down in Syria with a missile from a Russian Igla man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS), said Franz Klintsevich, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Defense and Security Committee.
“According to unofficial information, it was an ‘Igla’,” Klintsevich said. According to him, serious work is being done to clarify all the circumstances, especially who supplied the MANPADS.
On February 3, militants shot down a Russian Su-25 SM assault jet …
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Ukrainian volunteers spent 2 years collecting information on salaries paid to Russian soldiers in Donbas and Syria
Over the course of two years, Ukrainian volunteers have exploited a vulnerability in the Russian Defense Ministry’s website to collect classified information on the salaries paid to Russian soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine and in Syria, as reported on Facebook by Sean Brian Townsend, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance.
According to him, the Russian news outlet Fontanka.ru found a hole in the Russian Defense Ministry’s website, which Ukrainian volunteers had been using to …
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Body of Su-25 pilot killed in Syria transferred to Russia
The body of the Russian pilot Roman Filipov, who was shot down in Syria, was handed over to Russia “through Turkish mediation” by one of the “revolutionary groups”, reported the Syrian newspaper Enab Baladias with reference to a statement made by militants from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Al-Nusra Front). The pilot’s body was “stolen” by one of the rebel groups, stated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s. The story was relayed by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the jihadists’ …
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Russian Defense Ministry accuses online publication Fontanka of disclosing information on pilot killed in Syria
The Russian Ministry of Defense has criticized an article by the online news outlet Fontanka which it claims disclosed the personal details of the Su-25 assault jet pilot who was shot down in Syria on February 3. The Defense Ministry considers this a “violation of the elementary concepts of decency and the ethics of journalist activity”.
“We are convinced that the law enforcement organs will give their assessment of what happened in accordance with Russian legislation,” RBC reported, citing …
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Germany concerned about possible chemical attack in Syria
The German government expressed concern about reports of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, not far from the capital of Damascus and the northern province of Idlib. “If it turns out that the Syrian army once again resorted to the use of chemical weapons, this horrible act would be a flagrant violation of the moral and legal obligations not to use them,” said the German Foreign Ministry in a press release on February 5.
Earlier it became known that the Syrian military might have …
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Russia finds Ukrainian footprints in the crash of Su-25 shot down in Syria
Russian senator Igor Morozov has claimed that the surface-to-air missile system (SAM) that shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in Syria may have reached the rebels through contraband channels from the military arsenal in the Ukrainian city of Kalynivka, located in the Vinnytsia Oblast, RIA Novosti reported.
Morozov suggested that the Ukrainian SAM came to Syria after a large-scale fire at the ammunition depots in Kalynivka.
In the fall, the military warehouse in Kalynivka, Ukraine …
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Journalist: the pilot of a Russian fighter jet shot down in Syria was not a Ukrainian citizen
The Russian pilot, a Major in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Roman Filippov, who was killed in Syria, had never been a citizen of Ukraine as stated by a journalist, Yury Butusov, on Facebook.
"He was a career officer. He was transferred to the Crimea from Russia and joined the 37th mixed aviation regiment (commander - Colonel Oleg Terebunsky). The regiment is based in Hvardiiske in the occupied Crimea. Information from the Russian Ministry of Defense, disseminated by the Russian …
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Erdogan: Turkey bought Russian S-400 missile systems due to threat of attack from Syria
Turkey bought the Russian S-400 anti-air missile systems because of the threat of an attack from Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Italian newspaper La Stampa in an interview. Negotiations were held with several countries on the purchase of such equipment, but only Russia’s offer corresponded to Ankara’s expectations, the Turkish leader explained.
According to Erdogan, the civil war which has been raging in Syria since 2011 has prompted Ankara to “reinforce and modernize …
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Media: Pilot of Russian Su-25 fighter shot down in Syria was from Crimea
The pilot of the Russian Su-25 fighter that was shot down on Saturday over northern Syria was a former Ukrainian pilot from Simferopol, Major Roman Filippov, Novaya Gazeta reported with reference to a source in the Russian Defense Ministry.
The newspaper notes that a letter was published on the Telegram channel WarObserver containing a photograph of a report stating that Major Roman Filippov is being given a state award for carrying out combat missions in Syria.
The letter was supposedly …
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Kremlin accuses US of supplying Syrian rebels with MANPADS used to shoot down Russian assault craft
The Americans supplied the Syrian militants with man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) through third countries, said Frants Klintsevich, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Defense and Security Committee, responding to reports that a Russian Su-25 had been shot down in the Syrian Idlib Province with a MANPADS.
“I am absolutely convinced, I even spoke about this earlier, that today the militants have MANPADS, and they were supplied by the Americans through third countries,” …