Russian State News Agency Says S-400 Deployed In Syria

He added that Turkey’s act of downing the Russian warplane was intentional.

Medvedev said joint investment projects with Turkey will be canceled and negotiations over a preferential trade agreement with Turkey will be scrapped.

Bulgarian women with a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin at an anti-Turkey rally in Sofia on Thursday.

Putin said on Wednesday that an advanced air defense system would be sent to Russia’s Khmeimim air base in Latakia, northwestern Syria, in order to ensure the safety of Russian air missions over the country.

In a written statement, the Turkish armed forces said it had made great efforts to find and rescue the pilots of the plane and that it had also called military authorities in Moscow and expressed readiness for “all kinds of cooperation”.

One of the Russian pilots of a fighter jet shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border told state media on Wednesday that there was no prior warning. “Change your heading south immediately”, a voice in one of the recordings says in English.

Su24 navigator Konstantin Murakhtin said that no prior warning was given by Turkey before it attacked the jet.

Speaking in an interview with CNN, Mr Erdogan said Turkish F16 fighter jets were “simply fulfilling their duties” when they shot down an Su-24 bomber which, Turkey claims, entered its airspace for 17 seconds.

In Washington, a senior United States military official who has been briefed on the radar tracking of the Russian warplane said yesterday that the data showed the aircraft transited Turkish airspace, as Turkey has insisted. Turkey has refused to apologize for shooting the jet down, saying Russian Federation is at fault for violating Turkish sovereignty and being overly aggressive. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has confirmed the accuracy of information shared by Turkey about the violation.

In a clear indication that tensions are flaring, Russian Federation responded to the release of the audio by deploying long-range air missiles at its base in Syria; these S-400 long-range missiles are reportedly just 30 miles from the Turkish border and are capable of hitting targets within a 250-mile range, Fox News reported.