Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed shooting down plane as stabbing in the back.
Vladimir Putin said the downing of the plane would have “serious consequences for Russia’s relationship with Turkey.”
The president said “represents a stab in the back by the terrorists’ accomplices. I can’t describe what has happened today in any other way. Our plane was downed over Syrian territory by an air-to-air missile from a Turkish F-16 jet”.
The plane fell on Syrian territory four kilometers (2.5 miles) away from the Turkish border. It was flying one kilometer away from the Turkish border when it was attacked, he said. In any case, neither our pilots nor our jet posed any threat to Turkey. That is obvious. They were carrying out an operation fighting against ISIL in Northern Latakia. (ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.)
It is pertinent to mention here that, a Russian SU 24 bomber jet was shot down by Turkish forces over violating airspace on Tuesday killed one pilot.
