Airwars assessment
Five possible civilians reportedly died in an alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrike on Urma Al Kubra, Aleppo. The Syrian News Desk said 15 others were wounded and blamed Russia.
@Assad_wolverine tweeted, “a military officer of the Army of Mujahideen Free Army was killed in an airstrike on his car”- the source did not identify a culprit.
But the Syrian Network for Human Rights blamed “government warplanes”, and also put the death toll at five.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the five who died were “fighters of Jaysh Mujahideen” – the source did not say who was the blame.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
- Ibrahim al-Radwan Adult male Named by HNN as a civilian, but other sources claimed he was a military officer of the Army of Mujahideen Free Army killed
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Russian Armed Forces 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”.