- US and France call on Turkey and Russia to prevent escalation
- Turkey says its jets have shot down a warplane near Syrian border
- Russia says an SU-24 fighter jet was shot down over Syria
- One jet pilot and marine from rescue helicopter dead, says Russia
- Putin’s spokesman calls it ‘a very serious event’
- Turkey releases radar images of the jet over its airspace
- Nato to hold extraordinary council meeting on Turkey’s request
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Russia: Marine on rescue helicopter died
Russian journalists are being given a briefing by the defence ministry, I’m told by the Guardian’s Shaun Walker in Moscow.
These are the main lines so far as reported by RIA Novosti:
One of the two pilots has died, from “fire from the ground”.
The fate of the second pilot remains unclear. A helicopter sent to rescue the pilots was hit, performed an emergency landing, and one of the marines on board died.
Military contacts with Turkey will be severed.
Russia says Syrian air traffic control shows the Turkish F-16 which shot down the Russian plane violated Syrian airspace.
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