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The Moscow Times: Two pilots killed in Russian warplane crash off Syrian coast

Published May 3, 2018 at 12:17 pm

A picture taken on February 1, 2018, shows a Sukhoi-25 fighter jet flying over the Syrian city of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo.Rebel fighters shot down a Russian plane over Syria's northwest Idlib province on February 3, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, taking its Russian pilot captive.

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A Russian military plane has reportedly crashed off the coast of Syria near a Russian air base, killing two pilots in what appears to be an accident.

Russia leases the Khmeimim air base in the coastal Latakia province, where it maintains fighter jets and bombers involved in a nearly three-year military campaign in support of the Syrian government.