Media reported the rescue of one of the pilots of the downed Su-24 – RBC

Russian pilots sit in the aircraft Su-24 before take-off from the airfield Hmeymim in Syria.

Photo : RIA Novosti

Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen reported that the co-pilot of downed bomber Su-24 was evacuated by the Syrian military. Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that according to preliminary data, one of the pilots was killed after the “fire from the ground».

According to the channel, the search for the pilot lasted six hours. After that, for two hours, Syrian security forces were taken out from the rear of his rebels. Then the pilot by air delivered to the base Hmeymim in Latakia, where Russian aviation group is based. Now he is in safety.

On Tuesday night, the Defense Ministry reported that one of the pilots shot down on the Syrian-Turkish border, the Su-24 was lost. Prior to that department representatives said that both pilots managed to eject. The representative of the Turkmen groups thus reported that rebel forces shot pilots at a time when they are going down with parachutes.

The group “The 10th Brigade Coast” stated that the body of one of the pilots is hers. Rebels reported readiness to exchange him for prisoners who hold the Syrian authorities. The network is also a photograph of the deceased pilot. The rebels indicated that the picture shows a “dead Russian pilot, Major Sergey Rumyantsev».

The representatives of the rebel forces also published a video with the body of the deceased pilot. The founder of the project independent civil and investigative journalism Billingcat Eliot Higgins pointed to the identity of the equipment of the deceased with the uniforms of Russian pilots in Syria.

On Tuesday night, Reuters and the Hurriyet Daily News reported on the fact that Turkey considers the survivors of both pilots, and is working on they rescued from captivity. It was reported that the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey is in contact with the rebels to take their pilots.

The Russian Su-24 took part in the operation against terrorists in Syria, was shot down by the morning of 24 November, the Turkish-Syrian boundary. Ankara claimed that aircraft violated the airspace of the country, but Moscow denied this information.