Group "Hayat Tahrir al-sham" * (formerly known with the name "dzhebhat an-Nusra" *) took upon their own shoulders the responsibility for the downed in the Syrian Arab Republic, the Russian su-25. About it said the site conducting the monitoring the information activity of extremists.

No evidence of the validity of this information is not given. Similar data appeared on the TV channel Al-Arabiya.

Russian su-25 was shot down on the first day of the weekend in Syria, pilot ejected, but died in a battle with terrorists. The Ministry of defense of Russia told that the plane was shot down from MANPADS. Later in the war Ministry stated that more than 30 terrorists destroyed as a result a group of strike with precision weapons in the area controlled by the "Dzhebhat EN-Nusra" *, where was launched the missile at the plane. In the early winter of 2016, the then current head of the USA Barack Obama took formal limits on the production and delivery of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the allies of the US capital on a battle with the crime in the Syrian Arab Republic. At the same time he signed the law on military expenditures, which provides for and among them and the rules the supply of MANPADS to the so-called Syrian opposition. The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov then said that the permission to supply US the anti-government forces with weapons, including MANPADS, will lead to further escalation of tensions and new casualties.

* Banned in Russia as a terrorist organization

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