SYRIA BREAKING:  RUSSIAN AIR FORCE HITS MILITANT SITES FOLLOWING CHLORINE ATTACK ON ALEPPO

"Aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces destroyed militants in Syria, who shelled civilians in Aleppo with chemical munitions on Saturday, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters"

"Tass" Report Sunday 11/25/2018-LINK

On Saturday night, the government controlled city of Aleppo in northern Syria was shelled with chemical munitions filled with chlorine.   107 civilians were hospitalized after the attacks in several sections of the city according to the government news agency SANA.

Russia sent in chemcial weapons teams to analyze the attack sites and their preliminary estimate is that chlorine was used.

Later Russia attacked the militant artillery positions used for the attack with air strikes consulting by phone with Turkey to warn about the air attacks.

The pro-government Turkish newspaper "Yeni Safak" says that the Russian and Turkish Defense Ministers, Sergei Shoigu and Hulusi Akar, spoke by phone Sunday to discuss security measures in the Idlib region north of Aleppo.

Russia and Turkey are the guarantors of a deconfliction zone in the Idlib region.


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