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Local media named six people killed in an alleged Russian or Assad regime air or artillery strike in Kafr Zita – though most sources said that the victims were fighters. According to several reports.
The Step News Agency reported that “Russian fighter jets renewed their bombardment of areas of Hama north Tuesday evening 29th of November with several air strikes, one of them targeting a base belonging to the rebels in Al Issa army in Kafr Zita which led to the killing of seven people among them the commander of the artillery regiment in al Izza Army, Tariq Kattab”.
The Syrian Observatory also said the victims were “mostly fighters” – but blamed “shelling by the regime forces and warplanes on the [rebels’] headquarters in Kafr Zita”.
According to Baladi and other sources an ambulance was hit in the strike, “causing injury to the driver and facilities and the burning of the car completely”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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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.