Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the information about possible casualties among the civilian population in Syria, appeared before the Russian aircraft took to the skies.
For information about the victims, the Russian leader called “information attack” and said that Russia is ready for such attacks in the future.
“Other countries have already more than a year strikes at Syrian territory, more than a year. Without a UN Security Council resolution and without a request of the Syrian official authorities. We have such a request is, and we are going to struggle with terrorist organizations “, – Putin said.
At the same moment Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic to Russia Riyad Haddad at a press conference that All strikes are exclusively on the positions “of the Islamic state.” According to him, only on Thursday it destroyed five positions of the IG.
“We do not strike at the civilians, we do not deal a blow to human settlements. But the terrorist groups are on the outskirts of cities, far from the residential areas” – the ambassador added.
After the Russian aircraft delivered the first airstrikes around the city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that among the dead there are civilians. In addition, the Associated Press news agency, citing a senior US diplomat said the Russian air strikes, apparently applied not on the positions “of the Islamic state,” and on opposition groups at war with Bashar al-Assad.
In On Thursday night, Russian aircraft struck new strikes against targets in Syria.
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