On Wednesday, the Pentagon reportedly accused Russia of attacking two hospitals in Aleppo via airstrikes, which the U.S. defense ministry said left over 50,000 people without any access to assistance.
Russia denied the accusations saying none of its warplanes were present in the area at the time of the alleged attacks. Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov reportedly said that the nearest target aimed by Russia on Wednesday was about 12 miles from Aleppo, Syria's largest city. He added that the airplanes from the U.S.-led coalition — “both aircrafts and UAVs” — were active over the city at the time.
“Yesterday, at 13:55 Moscow time (5:55 a.m. EST), two American A-10 assault aircraft entered Syrian airspace from Turkey, flew right to the city of Aleppo and bombed targets there,” Konashenkov said, according to Russia Today.
“I’m going to be honest with you: we did not have enough time to clarify what exactly those nine objects bombed out by U.S. planes in Aleppo yesterday were. ... We will look more carefully,” Konashenkov added.
Konashenkov also picked on the statements by Steve Warren, a spokesman for the U.S. defense ministry, and criticized the official for not mentioning about the hospital’s coordinates, the time of the attack and the source of his information.
“Over the past week, February 4-11, the planes of Russia's aviation group in Syria made 510 sorties during which 1,888 facilities of terrorists were destroyed in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Deir ez-Zor, Daraa, Homs, Al-Hasakah and Raqqah,” Konashenkov said, giving details about Russia's operations in Syria, according to Russia Today...
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Russian Defense Ministry reiterated that the Russian warplanes and Syrian troops never target civilians...
ReplyDelete“No Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes in Aleppo city area yesterday. The nearest target engaged was over 20 kilometers away from the city,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday, adding that “on the contrary, airplanes from the US-led anti-ISIS coalition were active over Aleppo.”
“On Wednesday, at 13:55 Moscow time, two American A-10 assault aircraft entered Syrian airspace from Turkey, flew right to the city of Aleppo and bombed targets there, destroying nine facilities,” Konashenkov added.
“Terrorists in Syria are trying to flee to Turkey ‘blending into’ civilians of Aleppo as they know Russian warplanes don’t attack peaceful population,” Konashenkov stressed.
“Mass desertion is fixed among gunmen groups operating in the area of Aleppo. Terrorists intimidate local population and use force to drive people to the Turkish border,” he said.....http://sana.sy/en/?p=69132