Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish President following the talks at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi on September 17, 2018. The leaders of the two countries that are on opposite sides of the seven-year conflict in Syria, but key global allies, will discuss the situation in Idlib at Putin’s residence in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Alexander Zemlianichenko
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that “tragic accidental circumstances” led to the downing by Syria of a Russian warplane with 15 people on board.
“It rather looks like a chain of tragic accidental circumstances,” Putin told reporters, rejecting any comparisons with the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey in 2015.
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