Al-Arabiya: Pilots crashed in Syria from Turkey were killed at the direction of Russia

The Al-Arabiya TV channel claims that the pilots of the F-4 fighter shot down by the Syrian air defense systems survived from Turkey, but they were killed on instructions from Russia. The TV channel began the cycle of programs based on the Syrian secret documents that came to its disposal.

The first program, published the day before, claims that Russian experts from a military base in Tartus helped to bring down the Syrian air defense air defense air defense. According to the TV channel, Russian participation in this operation says in a document sent to the Assad presidential administration commander of the Syrian special forces. What exactly expressed the participation of the Russian military, Al-Arabiya does not specify.

At the same time, the channel assures that both pilots of the Turkish fighter did not die, as the Syrian authorities assure, but were captured and then killed. The bodies were later thrown into the crash area, reports Echo of Moscow .

The F-4 fighter was shot down over the Mediterranean Sea on June 22, according to Turkey, in the international airspace. Syria, in turn, said that the plane violated its border and did not respond to requests from the ground. The incident led to a sharp exacerbation of relations between the two countries.

This is not the first time that in foreign media the theme of the role they attributed to Russia in an episode with the crash of the Turkish Air Force, recalls Gazeta.ru . “We will not be surprised if these Russian experts, if they didn’t press the button themselves (on the air defense system, as a result of which the Turkish plane was destroyed), then at least stood next to the Syrian officers who did this,” the British newspaper The Sunday Times, an anonymous source in Israeli Air Force.

Tele programs based on the received secret Syrian documents, the Al-Arabiya channel, owned by one of the members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia, promises to air over the next two weeks.