Israeli Air Force Strikes on Syria Created Direct Threat to Two Passenger Planes – Russian MoD
The Russian Defence Ministry has stated that neither of the passenger planes that were threatened due to an Israeli airstrike on Syria was related to Russian air carriers.
As Sputnik International reports, six Israeli F-16 fighter jets directly threatened to two civil planes during a recent airstrike on Syria, Gen. Maj. Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman of the Russian Defence Ministry, said on Wednesday.
"Provocative actions of the Israeli Air Force on the evening of 25 December, when six F-16 aircraft launched an airstrike on the territory of Syria from the airspace of neighbouring Lebanon, created a direct threat to two passenger aircraft", the spokesman said.
According to Konashenkov, the attack was being conducted while the two civil aircraft were landing at the airports of Beirut and Damascus. He specified that the two passenger planes did not belong to Russian air carriers.
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