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Airwars assessment
As many as 15 civilians were killed – including six children, two women and four adult males – and dozens were wounded, in alleged air and artillery strikes on Douma. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. Some sources attributed blame to Russian warplanes, while others blamed the Syrian regime.
Reportedly, the raids struck a residential area including a school and the city square. Photographic evidence shows the extensive destruction to the buildings, civilian homes and the inside of the school.
One sources reported that the heavy shelling, which began in the morning and reoccurred throughout the day, included the use of both ground artillery and missiles.
Video evidence shows an ambulance taking wounded civilians to a medical facility in the immediate aftermath of the raid.
The incident occured around dawn.
- Saeed Emad Abdul Azeez Adult male killed
- Yaseen Anees Adult male killed
- Samah Mohammad al-Shahrour Adult female killed
- Usama Ameen Adult male killed
- Raneem Mohammad al-Shahrour Child female killed
- Sama Emad Abdul Azeez Child female killed
- Abdo Ahmad al-Baale Adult male killed
- Basheer Bashar al-Toum Child male killed
- Naseem Bashar al-Toum Child female killed
- Jina Bashar al-Toum Child female killed
- Safaa Bakoura Adult female killed
- Hiba al-Derra Child female killed
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between December 1st – 31st 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.”