Let this air be a witness

Aviation of the Aerospace Forces of Russia is not involved in the impact of the school in the Syrian province of Idlib. This was stated by the official representative of the military department Igor Konashenkov, Interfax reports .

"On Wednesday, October 26, not a single VKS plane entered this area. This is an absolute fact," Konashenkov said.

The Ministry of Defense questioned the very fact of a blow to the school. “We analyzed the photo and video frames allegedly“ evidence ”of the destruction of the school. The video frames published in a number of foreign media outlets allegedly struck on the HASS village are a gluing of more than ten mounted cuts removed with various permission at different times of the day,” Konashenkov said.

At the same time, the published photographs show that only one end wall of the building is damaged, the desks in the classes are in the field, and on the fence there is not even fragmentation damage on the fence. "In the explosion of aviation ammunition, this cannot be in principle - the fence and all the walls of the building should be destroyed and sown by fragments, and the furniture is bucked by a shock wave," said the representative of the Ministry of Defense.

Prior to this, the Foreign Ministry also denied Russia's involvement. "The Russian Federation, the Russian Air Force, the Syrian Armed Forces were immediately accused of this tragedy, directly saying that it was a bombing carried out by Russia and Syria. This is a lie. Russia has nothing to do with this terrible attack," the official representative of the department Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

On Thursday night, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that at least 22 children and six teachers were killed as a result of a airstrike at the Syrian school. “This is a tragedy. This is outrageous. If it was done intentionally, then this is a war crime,” said the Executive Director of the Foundation Anthony Lake.

According to Lake, the school territory was fired several times. The attack can become the most bloody attack on educational institutions for the entire period of the war in Syria, he added.

The message did not indicate which aircraft aircraft were inflicted on the aircraft. The Idlib province is controlled by the Syrian opposition, human rights activists close to them believe that the responsibility for the raid lies in Russia and the government forces of Syria.

The incident was commented on by the Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN Vitaly Churkin. “The easiest way is to say that this is not us. But I am a responsible person, we must wait for our Ministry of Defense to say about this,” said Churkin. “It's terrible, terrible, I hope that this is not us.”