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Yesterday, the data varied on the fate of a Russian military helicopter, according to Syrian government sources that had crashed in northeast Syria, killing its leader and wounding others, and this data was confirmed by the Syrian human rights source. , while the Russian Defense Ministry denied its authenticity and said in a statement: The helicopter experienced an emergency technical failure that forced it to make an emergency landing.
Syrian official media reported that the Mi-35 helicopter crashed in the northern province of Hasaka, near the city of Tal Tamr, near a Russian base. He added that one person died and others were injured in the accident.
The Syrian Observatory confirmed these data and added that the plane fell in the areas of influence of the Turkish forces and the factions loyal to them, in the Tal Tamr field, and that the accident caused casualties among its crew.
According to the observatory, the plane fell between the villages of Qasimia and Rihaniyeh in the Tal Tamr field, north of Hasaka, which is under Turkish influence near the al-Mabaqer base, which the Russian forces take as a military center, and explained. that no confirmed information was received on the causes of the accident, and if it was a technical failure. He hit her or forced her to make an emergency landing, but referred to “confirmed information about the injury of her crew and the serious injury of one of them.”
On the other hand, Moscow denied the validity of those reports and confirmed that the plane made an emergency landing for technical reasons and that its crew members are alive.
A statement issued by the Russian Defense Ministry indicated that the accident occurred yesterday, while the helicopter was conducting an air patrol over the Al-Hasakah governorate, indicating that its crew members were rushed to the airport and there is no danger to their lives. The ministry said the helicopter crew confirmed that they had not been shot.
The Syrian Observatory had monitored an active movement of Russian forces in the region the previous day, and reported that a patrol of Russian forces carried out a reconnaissance tour in the Qamishli camp, where they toured the villages of Kordemia, Hob Al -Hawa. , Bura Beit and Ein Dewar, adjacent to the border line with Turkey, and the patrol consisted of 5 armored vehicles and 4 hovercraft. A similar patrol also toured the areas of Qamishli, Darbasiyah and Abu Rasin, reaching Tal Tamr in the Hasaka camp.
On the other hand, a Russian military statement indicated that there was an escalation in the activity of the militants of the Al-Nusra Front in Idlib. The deputy director of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, Vyacheslav Sitnik, told a press conference that the organization’s fighters carried out 24 attacks, on the last day alone, in the de-escalation zone in Syria, and explained that between Those attacks were 19 attacks announced by the Syrian side. He added that the violations in Idlib governorate were 14 attacks, 4 attacks in each of Aleppo and Latakia provinces and two attacks in Hama governorate.
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