"Vedomosti": the impact of the Russian Air Force on the Turkish military was preceded by confusion on Earth

The Russian version of the development of events that preceded the deaths of the Three Turkish military under the blow of the Russian Air Force boils down to the fact that the turmoil reigned on Earth shortly before the incident, and Syrian government forces could not distinguish soldiers from Turkey from the militants of the Islamic State (IS, a prohibited terrorist group). About this to Vedomosti was told by a source close to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

According to the interlocutor of the publication, it all started with the fact that on the morning of February 9, the detachments of the pro -Turkish forces of the Syrian Free Army (SSA) attacked the left flank of the Syrian government detachments led by General Sukhail. During this attack, the Syrians suffered the losses killed and prisoners, and also lost BMP-1.

There were no Russian aircraft launches in Syrian detachments, and without them the Syrians could not identify the attacking as the pro -Turkish forces. Then they caused support for aviation of the Russian Federation, but while the planes arrived at the battlefield, the situation changed once again. The SSA detachment advanced towards the outskirts of El Baba, and in El-Hus, where the Box of the Russian Federation was “ordered”, the Turkish military followed for the SSA. Just at this moment, Russian bombs began to fall.

The source noted that Russia and Türkiye are now agreeing that the Russian and Turkish advanced air raiders would be in the units that were advancing in the El Baba area. This should help exclude the repetition of such incidents in the future.

As previously reported, on February 9 at about 08:40 During air strikes on the targets of the IG, which carried out the Air Forces of the Russian Air Force, one of the bombs accidentally hit the building where the military personnel of the Turkish Armed Forces were located. Three of them died, 11 were injured. The incident occurred in the region of the operation "Shield of the Euphrates" in the north of Syria in the area of ​​the city of El Bab.

Immediately after the first reports of the incident in the Al-Bab area , a telephone conversation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan took place . The Russian leader expressed sorrow and brought condolences in connection with the death of the Turkish military. The head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov also expressed condolences to the Turkish colleague General Hulushi Akaru.

It should be noted that in the media the version was replicated that the aircraft of the Russian Air Force acted in planned mode, and the inconsistent actions of the Turkish command could be the cause of the incident. However, on the eve of the Turkish General Staff, such messages resolutely denied , emphasizing that the military who fell under the shelling a day before the incident reported their location to the command. Their coordinates were also transferred to the Russian military attache in Ankara and to the Khmeimim base.