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Airwars assessment
Two adult males were killed, and several others were wounded – including one woman – in an aerial bombardment on Binnish. According to Arabic.rt, the shelling struck two groups of armed men in the morning of the 22nd.
Sources were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Assad regime were responsible for the raids and civilian harm.
Edlib News reported that five rockets were launched on the town with Spm-syria, adding that much civilian property was destroyed. Photographic evidence of a woman being rescued in the aftermath supports this claim.
The incident occured around dawn.
The victims were named as:
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An injured woamn is rescued in the aftermath of alleged Russian airstrikes on Binnish, 22nd November 2016. (via @ShahbaPress)
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One of the victims of an alleged Russian airstrikes on Binnish, 22nd November 2016. (via Binnish.local.counci)
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One of the victims of an alleged Russian airstrikes on Binnish, 22nd November 2016. (via Binnish.local.counci)
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.”