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Airwars assessment
One male child, Yahya Mohammad Qaddour, aged three, was killed in an airstrike on Talbiseh according to local sources.
The Violations Documentation Center – which blamed Russian shelling for the death – linked to an extremely graphic video posted by Talbissa, which shows the dead body of the child.
However, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights – which also named the child – he was killed by regime warplanes.
Syrian Revolution Talbissa News reported that four Russian airstrikes had led to “a huge number of injuries” and also killed the child Yahya.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Talbisah (تلبيسة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.840505, 36.72922. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Summary
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
From February 4th – February 11th, Russia reported: “In the course of the last week, February 4-11, aircraft of the Russian aviation group in the Syrian Arab Republic have performed 510 combat sorties engaging 1,888 terrorists’ objects in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Deir ez-Zor, Daraa, Homs, Hasakah and Raqqah.” It added: “During air duty mission, Su-25 attack aircraft detected 3 hardware columns transporting militants, armament and munitions along the highway Al-Qaryatayn – Homs. The strike resulted in elimination of 9 heavy trucks with munitions and more than 40 militants.”