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From Russia Today
‘S-300, S-400 air defenses in place’: Russian MoD warns US-led coalition not to strike Syrian army
Published time: 6 Oct, 2016 13:22
U.S. F-22 stealth fighter jets © Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
Russia’s Defense Ministry has cautioned the US-led coalition of carrying out airstrikes on Syrian army positions, adding in Syria there are numerous S-300 and S-400 air defense systems up and running.
Russia currently has S-400 and S-300 air-defense systems deployed to protect its troops stationed at the Tartus naval supply base and the Khmeimim airbase. The radius of the weapons reach may be “a surprise” to all unidentified flying objects, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson General Igor Konashenkov said.
From Russia Today
Israeli fighter jet crashes outside base after striking Gaza, pilot killed – army statement
Published time: 6 Oct, 2016 07:50
Israel F-16 fighter jet © Amir Cohen / Reuters
An Israeli Air Force pilot died on Wednesday as he ejected from his F-16 fighter jet upon returning from an airstrike mission in the Gaza Strip. The jet caught fire and crashed moments later outside Ramon Air Force base in southern Israel.
The pilot died while landing the jet on Wednesday evening, Anadolu news agency reported citing an army statement.
The aircraft was returning from an airstrike mission in which Israeli warplanes shelled several positions in Gaza after a rocket fired from Gaza territory exploded in Israel’s southern city of Sderot, the Israeli army said in a statement.
The plane was an F-16I two-seater jet fighter, also known as the “Storm,” which was specifically made for Israel by US-based Lockheed Martin. It had been in service with the IAF for over 10 years. The incident became IAF’s first fatality since 2010, when an F-16 crashed in southern Israel during a drill, killing both the pilot and navigator.
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From Russia Today
‘1st victim of war is truth’: Syrian-born journalist slams MSM for Aleppo bias
Published time: 5 Oct, 2016 13:35
© Abd Doumany / AFP
A Syrian-born journalist has slammed the New York Daily News and the Independent newspaper for not accusing Syrian rebels of shelling areas belonging to government forces, lamenting that the MSM is not covering all sides of the war.
Harout Ekmanian was speaking to RT about his disbelief at the deliberate misreporting of the death of a Syrian swimmer and her 12-year-old brother.
Mireille Hindoyan and her younger sibling were killed in the Villi district of West Aleppo on Friday.
“I think the first victim of the war is the truth, especially in the Syrian war where journalism and journalists suffered a lot. Preserving impartiality has become a very difficult task for journalists,” he said.
From Russia Today
Russia-US dialogue on Syria failed as Washington has no unified stance – Russian FM spox to RT
Published time: 4 Oct, 2016 21:03
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova © Sergey Pyatakov / Sputnik
The Russia-US peace effort in Syria broke down due to the lack of a unified stance on the issue in Washington and the US should acknowledge its failure, Maria Zakharova, Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, told RT.
“The problem is that for the whole time we were involved in Russian-American negotiations… we realized very clearly that the US had no joint position. Different organizations, different structures in Washington were taking different positions on what’s going on Syria. They had absolutely different views,” Zakharova said.
The Americans “were changing their opinion and their point of view on what’s going on in Syria, actually, every day… Probably, that was the main reason why they failed in fulfilling those agreements that we achieved,” she added.
From PressTV
Syrian army liberates two more areas in troubled Aleppo