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Airwars assessment
One unidentified woman was killed and dozens more civilians wounded in an airstrike on Rasim al Eis, according to sources on the ground. Most sources reported that Russian warplanes were responsible, however, Sky News was alone in blaming Syrian regime warplanes for the airstrike.
One source suggested that only two people were injured in the airstrike, however Sky News reported that medical sources informed them that “dozens of civilians arrived in the field hospitals following an aerial bombardment with cluster bombs which struck the village of Rasm al Eis in the southern countryside of Aleppo.”
Sources suggested that cluster bombs were used in the aerial bombardment, with one source calling it a rocket strike.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Rasim al Eis (رسم العيس), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.994645, 36.999917. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
Sources (8) [ collapse]
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between November 1st – 30th 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones”.
Additionally, Russia reported that its air forces had carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016.