© AP Photo/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 an aerial image of what they purport shows an airstrike on an automobile caravan.
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During the encounter broadcast on state television Sergei Shoigu said Calibre missiles were launched from the Rostov-on-Don submarine in the Mediterranean. Russian Federation has unleashed another barrage of airstrik…
He said: “What did 20th-century countries used to do in a similar situation?” “They have helped us in this process”.
Mikhail Klimentyev/AP Russian President Vladimir Putin brought up the possibility of using nuclear warheads in Syria.
‘It should be started with Turkey downing the Russian Su-24.
Turkey claims that the Russian aircraft had violated Turkish airspace and was issued with ten warnings before being shot down.
Davutoglu said that Russias operations have targeted Turkmen and Sunni communities around the Latakia region and Russias action could force many more millions of people to flee.
“Russia has been trying to cut the supply lines of opposition forces by bombing Azaz region in Syria”, he said. This is denied by Russian Federation.
“If the partners in the potential coalition keep asking for a set date for Assad to leave the scene, we will reply that this is against the law and against democracy”, Lavrov said.
“They want to expel them, they want to ethnically cleanse this area so that the regime [of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad] and Russian bases in Latakia and Tartus are protected”, he added.
The Russia-Turkey feud is also stoking tensions between Ankara and Baghdad, which has called on Turkey to withdraw troops and tanks it sent last week to a training base in northern Iraq.
Speaking to foreign reporters at his Istanbul offices in the Ottoman-era Dolmabahce Palace on the Bosphorus, Davutoglu said he was nonetheless ready to work with Moscow to prevent a repeat of the November 24 incident.
Indiscriminate mortar and bombing campaigns have killed thousands of civilians and driven hundreds of thousands more out.
A Turkmen fighter loads a mortar while fighting Syrian government forces.
Once the evacuation of the rebels is completed, the city of Homs will fully return to government control.
President Vladimir Putin has asked United Kingdom specialists to help analyse the flight recorder in a phone conversation with PM David Cameron, the Kremlin says.
Putin told Shoigu that it should be opened only in the presence of global experts.
The defense minister said that when it comes to Syria, Sunnis and Kurds can provide the “boots on the ground” but that they need to be “orchestrated and led”.
The Russian economy, which is forecast to decline 4 percent this year, is going through a hard time because of Western economic sanctions coupled with low oil prices.
“The initial reports that we’re getting back are that it’s off to a positive start, and that they’re beginning to make good – they’re beginning to make some progress”, he said.
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In his annual state of the nation address a week ago, Putin didn’t really give a satisfactory overview of how well the campaign against ISIS is faring.
