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A military plane crashed in Syria
A military plane has crashed in Syria southwest of Damascus. This is reported by the monitoring organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Whether the plane was shot down or crashed due to technical problems is unclear. The fate of the pilot also remains unknown.
Before the crash, the plane was flying over territory controlled by the Islamic State (an organization recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned).
A representative of the Russian Khmeimim air base told the Interfax news agency that all Russian planes were at the base, and they did not perform missions in the Damascus region and its suburbs on April 22.
The Islamic State has previously said its fighters shot down a Syrian warplane. This information is not independently verified.
- On April 5, a Syrian government aircraft was shot down near Aleppo. This information was confirmed on Syrian state television. According to unofficial data, the pilot was captured by militants of the al-Nusra Front (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned).