The chair of Russia’s Defence and Security Committee, Viktor Ozerov, denied any civilian deaths and said Moscow had nothing to hide from the worldwide community regarding its role in Syria.
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Fireball In Sky Caused By Rocket Debris, Military Says
Officials had warned the public before that launch to calm fears and cut down on rampart speculation. Some people also expressed distrust about the US government’s comments on the rocket.
“Russian authorities may have lied to cover up civilian damage”, the report suggests. “Every day we show you how Russian aviation is fighting worldwide terrorism, destroying their infrastructure in Syria”, said Igor Konoshenkov, a Russian defense official.
Fatal attack in Jerusalem at the Jaffa Gate
A campaign of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings by Palestinians in recent months has killed 19 Israelis and a US citizen. At least 120 Palestinians have died by Israeli fire in the same period, including 82 said by Israel to be attackers.
The general-major concluded that such fake reports are manufactured to distract the global community from the four-year civil war in Syria and to divert public attention from real concerns on the ground. More than 40 civilians are thought to have been killed in the attack, which Ghazal said took place in an area where armed groups were not present.
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Organizers said ticket sales totaled 2.5 billion euros this year, up 4.5 percent from last year. Second-prize winners included ticket-holders in Seville and Granada.
Russian Federation has been flying near daily raids to bomb targets in Syria at the request of President Bashar al-Assad.
It’s not the first time Russian airstrikes, which began over three months ago, in Syria are being criticised.
Amnesty in the report said it had “researched remotely” over 25 Russian attacks that occurred in Homs, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo between the start of the Russian campaign on September 30th and November 29th.
There are indeed some “serious defects” in the credibility of Amnesty’s report, security analyst and former counter-terrorism intelligence officer Charles Shoebridge told RT, suggesting that was rather an emotional call to avoid civilian casualties, than an independent and impartial investigation.
Moscow says its target is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other “terrorists”, but rebel forces and their backers accuse Russian Federation of focusing on moderate fighters instead.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said December 21 that Russian Federation is conducting the operation in full compliance with worldwide law. “Russia’s Ministry of Defence must be more transparent and disclose targets of their attacks in order to facilitate assessment of whether they are complying with their obligations under worldwide humanitarian law”, said Philip Luther. Each cluster bomb scatters scores of bomblets over an area the size of a football pitch. Some also say that Russian-operated planes tend to fly in twos. We have, by far, not used everything of what we already have.
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The Syrian conflict has killed more than 250,000 people and forced millions to flee their homes since it broke out in March 2011.
