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 suffered a fire of such catastrophic consequences that the official Ukrainian authorities did not exclude the possibility that it was specially organized in order to conceal the theft of hundreds of weapons, which then, without the knowledge of the Ukrainian authorities, were able to fall into the hands of Syrian terrorists through various contraband supplies," said Morozov.
At the same time, the Russian senator did not rule out that the SAM, which is in service with the Syrian rebels, could have been stolen from NATO warehouses in Eastern Europe.
On February 3, rebels shot down a Russian Su-25 in Syria.