"Expert" Charles Lister says:
Charles Lister
@Charles_Lister
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So far, #Turkey has acknowledged 29 deaths in tonight’s strike (by #Russia, not #Syria), but my sources tell me the number may be double that.
#Erdogan trying to balance de-escalation w. #Russia, escalation w. #Assad, threats to #Europe, outreach to #NATO/US & domestic politics.
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1233172129652387841
Lister also says the number of Turkish soldiers killed may well be double 29, what we've been told.
Oh, here we go again:
Woofers
@NotWoofers
Immediate Turkish response to Russia killing dozens of their troops:
So, yes, it is Russia with the firepower.
Elizabeth Tsurkov (above) wrote this article:
Russia has killed more Syrian civilians than ISIS. Why are they getting away with it?
Elizabeth Tsurkov February 24, 2020
When Aaref Watad, a Syrian photographer, arrived at the scene of a recent Russian air force attack in western Aleppo, he found a car completely pierced by shrapnel and nine corpses. Four of them were children.
The bodies belonged to a family that had been fleeing Aleppo for the Turkish border along with thousands of other families attempting to escape intense Russian air strikes.
“The ground was covered in blood, body parts and some of the belongings of the family,†Watad told me. “We waited for their relatives to come pick them up for burial, but they had all fled.â€
Read more at: https://forward.com/opinion/440051/russia-is-carrying-out-a-scorched-earth-policy-in-syria-and-theyre-getting/
Just saying, Elizabeth Tsurkov's twitter account says she hails from New Jersey but she must send some time in the Middle East for all of her reporting.
So, that sounded a bit incendiary, though, she's as knowledgeable as anyone. Yes, the allied side of Russia/Assad/Iran/Hezbollah have probably killed a lot more than ISIS has. Makes you think. All data says that.
