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Moscow blames Israel for Syria's mistake of downing Russian plane

(Xinhua)    17:46, September 18, 2018

MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- A Russian aircraft with 15 people on board was mistakenly downed by a Syrian missile, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday but blamed a simultaneous Israeli strike as the cause of the mistake.

The ministry said a missile from Syria's S-200 air defense system shot down the Il-20 surveillance plane with Russian servicemen on Monday by mistake because an Israeli airstrike took place at the same time.

"As a result of the irresponsible actions of the Israeli military, 15 Russian servicemen were killed. This is absolutely not in the spirit of the Russian-Israeli partnership," the ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a televised message.

The aircraft on its way back to the Russian Hmeymim airbase disappeared from radar on Monday night at a time when four Israeli F-16 fighters attacked targets in Syria's Latakia province.

The Russian military in Syria received a notification about the Israeli airstrike one minute before it happened, which did not allow enough time for the Russian aircraft to move to the safe zone, Konashenkov said.

"We reserve the right to adequate response actions," he said.

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