Russia’s PM: Syria mission no burden on budget

According to him, both Israel and the United States were informed of Russia’s plans of striking terrorist positions using missiles from the submarine.

Russia’s air campaign has been taking place since 30 September.

Turkey says the Russian jet strayed into its airspace and ignored repeated warnings, while Moscow insists it was flying over Syria.

Matthew Rycroft said the two definitions are hard, but planning is going ahead for the meeting of about 20 countries that have met twice in Vienna to try to launch a Syria peace process.

The spokesman added that Russian helicopters operating in Syria have a short-range operation and need fuel service in zones near the combat fields.

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.

Of the two pilots aboard the warplane, one was rescued with the help of the Syrian army, but the other was wounded by militant fire while he was parachuting down and was killed on the ground.

Speaking during an event on the sidelines of the Paris climate talks, Kerry said despite its military and political interests in Syria, Moscow “has been constructive” in trying to find a political settlement to end the Syrian conflict.

Mr Shoigu said that Russia had “actively worked” on the region where Turkey downed a Russian war jet on the Syrian border on November 24, allowing Syrian special forces to recover the plane’s black box.

Turkey has supported “moderate” rebel groups fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, with many Turkmen – ethnic cousins of the Turks – fighting alongside rebels.

Putin urged a “thorough, attentive and high-professional” study of the flight recorder with worldwide experts, inviting “anybody who would like to join”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he would like worldwide experts to examine data from the black box belonging to the Russian warplane downed over the Turkish-Syria border last month.

In retaliation for the downing of the aircraft, Moscow has applied economic sanctions targeting Turkey’s tourism and agriculture sectors.

But divisions have already emerged over the reported participation of some groups, while armed entities described as “terrorist” organisations, such as Al-Qaeda s Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State group, were not invited.