JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Blames Israel for Loss of Plane Shot Down by Syria Air Defenses; Moscow said it reserved the right to ‘respond adequately’ to the loss” – Wall Street Journal/Thomas Grove and Felicia Schwartz

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“… the Russian Defense Ministry said [a] Soviet-designed Ilyushin-20 was brought down by Syria’s S-200 air defense systems as Damascus tried to defend against strikes by four Israeli F-16s on government targets. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke to his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman after the plane was downed and warned that Moscow ‘reserved the right to take steps to respond’… Israel has launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets in Syrian territory before but worked with Russia to communicate their respective military operations over a deconfliction line …. Israel … informed Moscow of the incoming strike over a shared hotline less than a minute beforehand …. Most of Israel’s military operations have occurred in southwestern Syria, near the Israeli-held Golan Heights. …”

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