Putin wants intl experts to eye jet’s black box

Moscow has denied Ankara’s claims, saying that the Turkish F-16 attacked the Su-24 without warning and over Syrian territory.

Raqqa is a city in northern Syria that the Islamic State have proclaimed as their headquarters.

The United States’ special envoy to the coalition fighting the ISIS terror group in Iraq and Syria said that just 30 percent of Russian airstrikes in Syria were targeting the terror group.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the International New York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference on the sidelines of the COP21 United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, France December 9, 2015.

“We can say with complete confidence that fairly serious damage was done to weapons stores and a factory for preparing [land] mines”, Shoigu said, adding that oil infrastructure near the Turkish border was damaged as well.

The Russian minister additionally stated that in the previous three days, greater than 300 sorties have been made by Tu-22 lengthy-vary bombers and different Russian plane deployed at Syria’s Hmeimim airbase, hitting greater than 600 targets.

The Su-24 plane was shot down by Turkey as it took part in a bombing mission in Syria on November 24, with the death of a Russian serviceman as he parachuted from the aircraft. He said it should be opened only in the presence of global experts, “to carefully document everything”.

“We used to treat Turkey not only as our friend but also as an ally in the fight against terrorism, and nobody expected this low, treacherous stab in the back”.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed Turkey’s complaint about a sailor on a Russian navy vessel pictured on its deck with a portable air-defense missile while the ship was cruising across the Bosporus.

The Kremlin however has lamented that global powers such as the United States, which has been bombing IS targets in Syria together with its allies for more than a year, are not ready to form a coalition with Russian Federation. These are new, state-of-the-art highly efficient weapons, and now we see it, ” Putin said.

Davutoglu said Turkey was ready to work with Russian Federation to prevent similar incidents happening again.