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Airwars assessment
A named civilian man and two unidentified civilians allegedly died as a result of airstrikes on the Baghdad hospital in Aweijal village, Aleppo, according to multiple local sources.
Sources added that a number of medical staff were injured. Annahar cited the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who didn’t identify a culprit. Reportedly the attack on the hospital came as part of a series of attacks in a 24 hour period on three Aleppo hospitals.
The source, Masaralrabi, blamed both the regime and Russia as culprits in strikes across Aleppon on three separate hospitals. Sdusyria blamed only Russian forces, as did @tv_shada and @Syria_Tweets.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights attributed the event to “government warplanes”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Aweijal, Aleppo (قرية عويجل), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.179537, 36.952987. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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A hospital room destroyed in Aweija following suspected Regime or Russian strikes, November 15th (via @Syria_Tweets)
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 have carried out strikes in Aleppo during November and December 2016