“Images showing the locations of the air targets from the radar screen", which the Russian Defense Ministry used as a proof of Israel’s responsibility in the Il-20 crash, were fabricated, writes the Haaretz newspaper referring to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sources.

The IDF said that on September 17, four Israeli F-16 fighters fired missiles at the target in the Syrian province of Latakia from the airspace east of Cyprus at 21:42. Four minutes before that, at 21:38, the Israelis warned the …

Ukrainian director, Oleg Sentsov, who is imprisoned in Russia, was taken out of prison to the city hospital “for a routine examination,” reported Interfax referring to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.  “In connection to the planned examination, the convict Oleg Sentsov was taken to the Labytnangi city hospital, where he completed additional testing and medical consultations by medical specialists,” the statement reads. …

Moscow has already started delivering the S-300 Russian anti-aircraft missile systems to Damascus, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a press conference in New York, reports RBC news agency.

"The S-300s have already begun to arrive in Syria," said the head of the ministry noting that, in accordance with the president's [Putin] order, deliveries began "immediately after the incident" with Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea.

Lavrov assured that Moscow will …