Moscow called false data about the attacks on the hospital in Aleppo – RBC

Russian aircraft inflicted air strikes on the hospital Sahour in the Eastern part of Aleppo, and messages about it are fakes, said today the chief of the main operations Directorate of the General staff of the Russian air force Lieutenant-General Sergey rudskoy, reports “Interfax”.

as an example, the “alleged indiscriminate bombing raids of the Russian space forces in Syria” on November lead story about the impact of hospital Sahour in the Eastern part of Aleppo issued by the Euronews TV channel on 2 October 2016.

In the material Euronews from Sunday, 2 October, it was reported that the hospital Sahour Russian and Syrian planes struck. According to the channel, he was given a “Saturday”. During the air strike killed “at least two patients”, said the TV channel. “The hospital does not currently fully. There are ruined walls, infrastructure, equipment, and generators”, — quotes the channel of a radiologist of the hospital Mohammad Abu Rajab. Medical institution the TV station calls the hospital M-10.

Sergey rudskoy, in turn, said that Russia has “objective monitoring data” and satellite photographs of the hospital, dated 24 September and 11 October, which show that the difference in the condition of the object.

“On the satellite image, received on 24 September, i.e. before the announced date of impact, you see the hospital Sahour. In another photograph, taken October 11, after allegedly dealt the blow, no differences in the object’s state is not observed”, — said the Armenian President.

This fact, he said, suggests that “the accusations of the Russian space forces on the part of some witnesses in the indiscriminate attacks in fact are ordinary fakes”.

a Few days earlier, Reuters reported a strike at main hospital in Aleppo. In the message the Agency also referred to the words of the radiologist Mohammad Abu Rajab, who stated that on 28 September, a military plane flew over the hospital and dropped bombs.

Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Gennady Gatilov voiced the official position of Moscow regarding these messages on 3 October. According to him, “accusations that Russia allegedly strikes on medical facilities, hospitals, schools, it, too, all is untenable” (quoted by “RIA Novosti”).

on Tuesday, October 25, the Russian military said that the moratorium will be extended to the blows of the Russian and Syrian aircraft in Aleppo and around. This is also stated Sergey rudskoy. According to him, the aviation of Russia has been stopped since October 18.