{"id":37894,"date":"2018-09-18T05:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37894"},"modified":"2018-09-18T05:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:34:53","slug":"russia-threatens-adequate-response-against-israel-for-downed-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37894","title":{"rendered":"Russia Threatens “Adequate Response” Against Israel For Downed Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia Threatens “Adequate Response” Against Israel For Downed Plane<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Update 4:<\/strong> The Russian Ministry of Defense cleared up the confusion surrounding the overnight downing of a Russian Ilyushin-20 reconnaissance plane on Tuesday when a spokesman revealed that Israel was indeed responsible for the attack, which resulted in the deaths of 15 Russian servicemen.<\/p>\n

According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the plane was accidentally brought down by an aging Syrian S-200 defense system after Russia had scrambled its jets to respond to an attack by four Israeli F-16s on Syrian government targets. Israeli notified Russia of its attack over a shared hotline less than a minute before beginning the strike, giving the Kremlin little time to respond. <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

“As a result of the Israeli military\u2019s irresponsible actions 15 Russian servicemen died,”<\/em> said Defense Ministry Spokesman Gen. Igor Konashenkov.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Israel has carried out roughly 200 strikes in Syria over the past year and a half as it pushes back against Tehran’s growing presence in the war-torn battle zone.<\/p>\n

Moscow has the right to “respond adequately”<\/strong> to the attack, Konashenkov said.<\/p>\n

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Update 3:<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>In a breaking report CNN has cited Pentagon officials who say the missing Russian aircraft with 14 service members on board, now subject of a Russian search-and-rescue operation, was accidentally shot down by Syrian missile defense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pentagon sources say further that Israel was responsible for the nighttime attack, which reportedly involved strikes\u00a0by air and possibly by sea\u00a0from the Mediterranean. Israel has yet to issue comment.<\/p>\n

But Russia says its radar picked up a French warship firing in the area just before the Russian patrol aircraft\u00a0went down<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Russian maritime patrol aircraft with multiple personnel on board was inadvertently shot down by Syrian regime anti-aircraft artillery on Monday after the Syrians came under attack by Israeli missiles<\/strong>, according to a US official with knowledge of the incident<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Russia Threatens “Adequate Response” Against Israel For Downed Plane Update 4: The Russian Ministry of Defense cleared up the confusion surrounding the overnight downing of a Russian Ilyushin-20 reconnaissance plane on Tuesday when a spokesman revealed that Israel was indeed responsible for the attack, which resulted in the deaths of 15 Russian servicemen. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1049,694,776,4318],"class_list":["post-37894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-israel","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37895,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions\/37895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}