Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Between six and ten civilians including three to four children and one woman were killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on Kaljabreen, according to local sources.
Shaam News Network reported that Russian warplanes targeted a school for sheltering displaced people in Kaljabreen, “causing a horrific massacre“. According to an initial report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least six civilians including four children and a woman died when “suspected Russian warplanes missiles fired on Kaljabrein village“.
But a later SN4HR report put the death toll higher at 10 including three children and a woman, reporting that they were killed when Russian planes launched missiles next to “Omar Bin Khattab mosque on the road between Kaljibreen town and Maree’ city in Aleppo“.
One victim 18-year-old male was named by the Violations Documentation Center but it is not clear where in Aleppo he died. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently also named him, and said he died following a Russian strike that targeted him in the northern Aleppo countryside on February 15th. He was also named for the incident on February 15th in Azaz (see above), so further research is required to ascertain which incident he died in.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Kaljabreen (كلجبرين), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.5365019, 37.1176958. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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A seriously graphic image of two deceased children. (via, SN4HR)
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
From February 10th – February 16th, Russia reported: “On February 10-16, aircraft of the Russian aviation group in the Syrian Arab Republic have performed 444 combat sorties engaging 1593 terrorists’ objects in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, Daraa, Homs, Hama, Latakia and Aleppo.”