(Previous Incident Codes: R017S133a)

Two children and a 46-year-old male were reportedly killed during four alleged Russian strikes in the evening in Anadan in the northern Aleppo countryside in Syria. Another man was also named as a victim by VDC. Eyewitnesses described at least one secondary strike.

A local medic told Qassioun: “Between the afternoon and evening, Russian planes carried out intensive raids on areas in the northern Aleppo countryside, which led to dozens of injuries and three deaths. One of the martyrs is a ten-year-old boy, a young man of 17 years old and a 40-year-old man. The injuries are very serious.”

Smart TV showed footage of Russian aircraft, which it said was filmed near Aleppo: “Spotted at 17:30, for the first time, one of the Russian planes in the sky of the city of Aleppo on their way to carry out raids on the villages and towns of the countryside.”

And Ibrahim Kharfan, a rebel in the town, insisted only civilian areas were being targeted: “The Russians are claiming, along with the regime and all those supporting this rotten regime, they are claiming they are targeting [military] bases. We are here in Anada,n and everything you see here is civilian houses. All the bombing now is being directed at civilians’ houses.”

While there was near consensus that Russia was responsible, VDC continues to list both boys as having been killed in a US-led Coalition strike.

In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in this strike as “non-credible”, stating that no strikes were conducted in the geographical area at the time.