"We threw what we had at them all, we turned their fields into hell." In a brief account of the rescue operation, the spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov, used strong words and no doubt moved by a still vigorous emotional motion.
We know that the rescue operation of the navigator of the Russian Su-24 shot down at 9.20 last Tuesday by a Turkish F-16 ended with the extraction of the navigator of the hit bomber. The Russian Defense Ministry confirms that the entire operation lasted twelve hours.
The first search attempt ended in disaster after disaster. Out of naivety (or perhaps just out of the rush to save the downed soldier), the Russians used Mi-8 transport helicopters exclusively in the first rescue mission. Targeted by enemy infantry, they proved to be easy prey. The Russians, still incredulous at the shooting down of the Su-24, lost a few hours later a mortally wounded marine and one of the two helicopters. From the Kremlin, meanwhile, they continued to see images of the terrorists who had now traveled around the world, as they machine-gunned the two members of the crew who launched themselves with the parachute, fatally wounding the pilot.
It was Putin himself who authorized a second rescue mission, this time conducted exclusively by the Specnaz. At least two teams Specnaz of Voenno-Morskoj Flot Rossijskoj Federacii deployed in Syria under the auspices of GRU, protected by four Ka-52 heavy helicopters, they conducted the second recovery mission, bringing the navigator to safety.
It should be noted that the operation involved numerous Russian fighters armed with long-range air-to-air missiles.
Konashenkov added a few minutes ago “After saving the driver, we turned their camps into hell. We from the air, the Syrians with their artillery. "
The Russian retaliatory attack was also confirmed by the rebels. Repeated the enthusiastic tones, the rebels would have communicated on the network the Russian carpet bombing and that they had suffered heavy losses.
(photo: MoD Russian Federation)
