A fragment of a broken version

At the site of the attack on the UN humanitarian column near the Syrian city of Aleppo, a fragment of the Russian air bomb was discovered. This was reported on the website of the International Expert-Journalist Group Bellingcat.

Bellingcat contacted the Syrian Civil Defense detachment, based near the attack site. Volunteers removed and photographed two fragments of wreckage. The analysis of images made it possible to unambiguously identify a fragment of ammunition.

This is the tail of the fugus-flood bomb of the OFAB-250-270, an uncontrollable bomb of the Soviet and later Russian production. The Bellingcat report notes that the use of bombs of this type of both Syrian and Russian aircraft in Syria was previously broadly documented. The material emphasizes that such bombs are not used by NATO aviation, in particular, Predator drones.

The authors of the investigation note that there is no more doubts about the type of bomb used. The only question is who exactly dropped her on the humanitarian column - a Russian or Syrian aircraft.

On Monday evening, a motorcade with humanitarian aid was defeated in Syria, which was heading from Aleppo to rural areas held by the rebels. It was reported that 20 people were killed as a result of the air raid, at least 18 out of 31 escort trucks were damaged. The convoy was organized by the UN and the Syrian department of the red crescent.

According to Stephen O'Brien, Deputy Secretary General of the UN Humanitarian Affairs, if it is confirmed that the blow to the motorcade was delighted, this will be considered a war crime. “There can be no explanation or justification, any reason and rational justification for the attack on the brave and selfless humanitarian employees,” he said, urging immediately conduct an impartial investigation of the incident. Sending all humanitarian convoys to Syria was suspended, the UN said.

On Tuesday, Deputy Assistant President for National Security of the United States Ben Rhodes entrusted his responsibility for what happened to Russia , but did not specify whose aircraft bombed - Russian or Syrian.

In the central command of the US Armed Forces, they insist that a hit on a column in Aleppo was made from the air. According to the representative of the command of John Thomas, "this, of course, was not a coalition."

In the Russian Foreign Ministry, the charges are categorically denied. "Such early -ripening accusations, not backed up by facts,, among other things, are designed, as it seems, to take attention from a strange" mistake "made by the pilots of the US Antihilov Coalition driven on September 17, when its planes bombed the positions of the Syrian government forces near Deir Ez -Zorom," the Russian foreign ministry said. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that they recorded the flight of the American drone Predator.

According to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, the Syrian Air Force could not attack the humanitarian convoy in Aleppo, since the blow was delivered in the dark. “Our military has already made the relevant statements that our aircraft did not work there. Syrian aviation could not work, because the attack on the convoy occurred in the dark, the Syrian Air Force at that time did not fly, they did not have such opportunities and the attack occurred when the humanitarian load was already unloaded in East Aleppo,” TASS quoted TASS.

On Tuesday, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, also stated that the combat aircraft of Russia and Syria did not strike at the UN escort. According to the general, there are no signs of any ammunition on the video from the scene. "There are no appropriate funnels, cars do not have damage to the housing and faults of structures from the explosive wave of airborne equipment," Konashenkov said. - All demonstrated on video frames is a direct consequence of the fire of the cargo, which in a strange way began simultaneously with the large -scale attack of militants on Aleppo. "