Russia’s Syria mistaken hit coordinates given by Turkey

Russia’s Syria mistaken hit coordinates given by Turkey
Turkey provided the Russian forces with the target location for the airstrikes that accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria’s al-Bab, the Kremlin said on Friday.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that "there should not have been Turkish soldiers within the limits of these coordinates".

The incident which took place on Thursday killed three Turkish soldiers and injured 11 others when Russian warplanes tried to target ISIS terrorists, hitting a building where Turkish troops were deployed in, according to the Turkish army.

Following the bombing, Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to offer his condolences over the "tragic" incident.

"The situation is obvious, unfortunately. Our military while launching strikes on terrorists followed coordinates that were given to us by our Turkish partners," Peskov said.

The Turkish military said in a statement it considered this mistaken hit as an accident, but reiterated it had given the coordinates of the building to its Russian counterparts on Wednesday.

The Turkish statement added that the soldiers had been in the same position for ten days and that their coordinates had been communicated to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Syria, and in person to the Russian military attache in Ankara.

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