Russia’s military has recovered the second pilot from its bomber shot down by Turkey on Tuesday, Russia’s defense ministry has announced.
Moscow’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, briefed president Vladimir Putin on the rescue on television, informing him that the pilot had been found after a twelve-hour search and that he was now back in a Russian airbase in Syria.
The plane’s other pilot was killed by rebels after he ejected, according to Russian defense officials. Putin said the deceased pilot will be awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia medal, one of Russia’s highest military honors.
Simultaneously, Russia’s defense ministry announced it would be deploying advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria, close to where the incident happened to prevent further attacks of its planes conducting strikes there.
The Su-24 jet was brought down by Turkish fighters in the northern mountains of Syria’s Latakia province, close to the border with Turkey, where it had been bombing Syrian rebel militants. Turkey has insisted the plane was destroyed because it violated Turkish airspace, a claim Russia has disputed.
The shooting down– the first of a Russian plane by a NATO aircraft since the 1950s– has prompted a diplomatic crisis between Russia and Turkey and added yet another tangle to the intractable Syrian conflict.
Russia has been supporting the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with an air campaign for the past two months. Turkey, which is deeply opposed to Assad, has been supporting rebel groups with arms and money.
Putin called the downing of the plane a “stab in the back” and has accused Turkey of supporting terrorism, calling it an “accomplice of terrorists”. The incident has caused a sharp breach in Russian-Turkish relations, with Russia’s foreign ministry recommending Russian citizens stop visiting Turkey and most major tour operators halting sales of trips there.
Turkey has defended its actions, insisting it had given the Russian plane multiple warnings and that it had crossed over a mile into Turkish territory. On Wednesday morning, however, Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, said his country would not escalate the situation.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/pilot-downed-russian-jet-rescued-alive/story?id=35408013
Putin last week met with the Turkish ambassador to Russia in Moscow, and said to him “Tell that DICkTATOR of yours that he can go to hell !!!”. Putin also walked into the G20 summit and let the world know who all the criminal governments were who were training, protecting, funding, and supplying ISIS/Al CIA DUH. That was the diplomatic equivalent of rolling a live frag into a crowded room. Feathers are going to fly. These faggots aren’t used to being talked to like that. “OH YOU SAVAGE!!!”. Disgusting convention on freaken HOMOS!!!! Good for you Vladimir!!!! You go boy!!!
This SU27 shoot down was his answer me thinks.
If the only answer you have is blind violence, then you have no answer. Picking a fight like a little boy, and then calling in your big brothers to fight it.. Well what can one say but lowest level Trailer Trash living closest to the garbage dumb.
Btw, IIRC this is the same regime that dispatched their secret service to the countries of Northern Europe to make sure their fellow country men that went there to work, didn’t get to political active to become a threat to the regime.
Telling the truth in a time of deceit is dangerous. –Quote from someone.