Il-20 Russian Aircraft gone down by Syrian S-200 anti aircraft - The Israeli tactic raised a diplomatic crash between Russia and Israel

Russian aircraft Ilyushin Il-20 with 15 military officers were shot by the Syrian Anti-Aircraft during an Israeli attack in Latakia, according to Defense Ministry of Russia.

According to the report, the traffic controller lost the sign of the aircraft.

The fact was that the F-16 Israeli hide in behind the aircraft Il-20 and the anti-Aircraft S-200 shoted the Russian plane, when the target were the F-16s.

Well, to the facts, the USA denied the alleagations of Russia and said to CNN that the Syria inadvertently slaughtered the Russian Aircraft. Also the Israeli military personal denied that they were behind the attack.

The chess game is the USA and Israel one side and Russia and Syria other side, and the diplomatic attacks started also the media covering will keep the propaganda with the pro and anti regime in region. The tactics of Isaeli were a very good tactic to make a slaughter with friendly fire and start an uncertainty between Syria and Russia, weakening the ties between them and facilitating the military and political foray in Syria.

This attack happened after the Russia and Turkey agreed to stablish a demilitarized zone in Idlib, the last great enclave to the rebels anti-regime.

This zone will be stablished in october 15th and will have 9 to 12 miles depth. And this zone is seem by Russia and Iran as the vital to fight off the rebelion against the president Bashar al-Assad.

For now, the Israel, although denied the attack will have a serious diplomatic problem with Russia, and will be more isolated in the Middle East, as the USA is the point that strenghtens their relations.

Now acheving the propaganda with the possibility of the conventional warfare, and the irregular warfare with the rebels, the hyrid scenario is possible for a boiling point in between Syria and Israel, and also a diplomatic crash between Israel and Russia and the cauldron can be more and more hot.

According to the scenario done and the Vostok-2018, Russia is prepared to a warfare in Middle East. The use of military intelligence and hackers to promote the disinformation and the use of media in Middle East with pro Islam propaganda will be explored and will isolate more Israel, and strenghten the laces between Iran and Syria.

Another question in Syria is the Wagner Group acting with rebels, and the irregular scenario. The fight of small wars can be changed to the focus of a legal warfare between countries. The diplomacy will now have a very big trouble to solve.

According to the Russian Parliament, the Israeli attack to Syria in an 'agressive act', Yuri Shvytkin expressed his opinion. According to the State Deputy, Israel is doing the will of the USA in Syria, and considering that the negotioations between Turkey and Russia, the USA understood that they are far from the Syria peaceful and diplimatic resolution and, according to Shyvtkin, he didn't exclude that USA could orchestrate the attack.

The Russian Defense qualified the actions of Israel as hostile and will reserve the right of take the response measures, at the time that the military specialist Vladimir Bogatryev affirmed that the situation is inadmissible.

According to Bogatryev, the countries are fighting against the terrorists in Syria and the lack of cooperation can take to big military losts in region. Also, according to him, Israel violated the treaty and didn use the contact lines between the militaries.


Also, Bogatryev cannot predict the political and diplomatic consequences and which military penalties could be applied against Israel.

Israel must care now with intern security and the military opearations in Syria, and search for defence and diplomatic partnerships.

Syria accidentally shot down a Russian military plane

By Barbara Starr, Ryan Browne and Nathan Hodge, CNN

Updated 1739 GMT (0139 HKT) September 18, 2018

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/syrian-regime-shoots-down-russian-plane/index.html

Moscow (CNN)Syria antiaircraft fire downed a Russian military plane after an Israeli attack on Syrian positions, killing 15 people on board, Moscow said.

Russian state media said Syrian missiles shot the maritime patrol aircraft down amid an attack by Israeli jets in the Latakia region of northwest Syria.

Moscow blamed Israel for putting its aircraft in the line of fire and said it had only a minute's notice of the strike.

"As a result of the irresponsible actions of the Israeli military, 15 Russian servicemen were killed, which is absolutely not in keeping with the spirit of Russian-Israeli partnership," said Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, spokesperson for the Russian military, according to RIA-Novosti.

In a rare acknowledgment of its military activity in the region, Israel expressed "sorrow" for the loss of Russian life, but blamed the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli Defense Forces said it had followed well-established protocols in communicating with Moscow, which are intended to prevent such incidents.

"Israel holds the Assad regime, whose military shot down the Russian plane, fully responsible for this incident," the IDF said in a statement, adding that Iran and Hezbollah were also accountable.

According to the statement, Syrian antiaircraft batteries "fired indiscriminately and from what we understand did not bother to ensure no Russian planes were in the air."

The incident presents Moscow with a diplomatic conundrum, as the country has a strong relationship with both Israel and the Syrian regime.

On Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incident a tragedy and said that Russia will concentrate on taking additional security measures to "protect our servicemen and our assets in Syria."

"Here it's more like a chain of tragic accidental circumstances, because Israel didn't shoot our plane down. But there's no doubt, no doubt at all, that we will have to take a serious look at what in fact happened, and our view of this tragedy is set out in the statement issued by the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense, which has been fully agreed with me," Putin said.

In a phone conversation with Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed "the importance of the continuation of security coordination between Israel and Russia, that has succeeded in preventing many losses on both sides in the past three years," according to a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office.

Netanyahu promised that Israel would transfer all relevant information about the incident to Russia and proposed sending the Commander of the Israeli Air Force to Moscow to personally hand over the information.

Earlier in the day Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman talked by phone with his Russian counterpart, Army Gen. Sergei Shoigu, both sides said. According to a readout of the call from the Russian Ministry of Defense, Shoigu described the actions of the Israeli air force as irresponsible and told Liberman that fault "rests entirely with the Israeli side."

"We reserve the right for further reciprocal steps," Shoigu said, according to the readout.

Anti-aircraft system 'sold to Syria by Russians'

Israel said that its fighter jets had targeted a Syrian Armed Forces facility "from which systems to manufacture accurate and lethal weapons were about to be transferred on behalf of Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon."

"These weapons were meant to attack Israel, and posed an intolerable threat against it," the IDF said.

The IDF alleges that by the time Syrian antiaircraft missiles had been launched, Israeli warplanes responsible for the overnight operation were already back within Israeli airspace.

The IDF also says that the Russian plane was not "within the area of operation" while the Israeli strike on Latakia was underway. Russia bases much of its Syrian military presence in Latakia.

A photo taken on July 23, 2006 shows a Russian IL-20M plane landing at an unknown location. Russia has blamed Israel for the loss of a military IL-20M jet Monday.

The Russian military said Israel notified the Russian side about the planned operation only a minute in advance, and that Israeli controllers would have seen the Russian plane, which was coming in to land, RIA reported.

Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Yevgenyevich Konashenkov claimed the Israelis used the plane as cover, effectively putting it in the cross hairs of the Syrian air defenses, according to RIA.

The Russian aircraft was shot down by an antiaircraft system sold by Moscow to the Syrians several years ago, a US official with knowledge of the incident told CNN Monday. The Syrian air defense network in western Syria is very densely populated with antiaircraft missile and radar systems.

In February, the two-man crew of an Israeli F-16 ejected from their aircraft when a missile exploded near them, damaging their plane as they finished conducting a mission against Syrian forces.

An Israeli defense official told CNN earlier this month that Israel has struck Syria 200 times in the past 18 months to prevent the deployment of Iranian weapons in the region.

Demilitarized zone in neighboring Idlib

The incident occurred on the same day that Russia announced a joint agreement with Turkey to create a demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib province, which neighbors Latakia, potentially thwarting a large-scale military operation and impending humanitarian disaster in the country's last rebel stronghold.

Speaking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at talks in Sochi on Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the creation of a 15- to 20-kilometer (approximately nine to 12 miles) demilitarized zone will prevent a "humanitarian crisis" in the northwestern province.

All heavy military equipment tanks, ground-to-air missiles and mortars of all the opposition groups will be removed by October 10, the leaders said. The zone, which will be patrolled by Turkish and Russian military units, will become operational from October 15.

Erdogan described the agreement as a "solution" to the issues in the region.

Speaking Tuesday, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the downing of the Russian aircraft would not affect the Sochi agreement "in any way," adding that "this is an important, breakthrough agreement."

In recent weeks, Syrian and Russian planes have conducted scores of airstrikes in Idlib in the run-up to an anticipated offensive by Russian-backed Syrian forces to retake the last part of the country under armed opposition.

Last week, UN officials said that more than 30,000 people fled the province in anticipation of the government offensive.

CNN's Natalie Gallon, Andrew Carey, Mary Ilyushina, Judith Vonberg, Kara Fox, Oren Liebermann and Radina Gigova contributed reporting.