Geolocation
Airwars assessment
An unknown number of civilians, including a child, was injured in alleged Russian or Syrian regime artillery strikes on the town of Baksriya, Idlib governorate, on December 31st, 2018, according to local sources.
@LccSy reported “civilian casualties following the shelling of a ballistic missile on the village of Baksriya, west of Jisr Al Shughour.” @ahmad_haj_bakri wrote that “a number of civilians were wounded in the village of Baksriya in the western countryside of Idlib, as a result of targeting a cluster missile believed to be from the Russian warships stationed in the sea.”
Several sources, such as@IdlibPlus, reported that a child had been injured the missile strikes. Hamah Now reported that multiple children had been injured.
@spc_fr reported that the incident had been a cluster bomb attack. According to Edlib Media Center, a ballistic missile had been loaded with cluster bombs.
While a majority of sources blamed Russia for the attack, other sources such as @HamahNow pointed to the Syrian regime.
Masr Al Arabia wrote that it was the first time since the agreement on a demilitarized zone on September 17th, 2018, between Russia and Turkey that a Russian airstrike took place in the area.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Baksriya (بكسريا), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.866414, 36.213093. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.