Turkish forces are said to have shot down a Russian jet after it flew into the country’s airspace, The Daily Mail said quoting unconfirmed reports on social media.
It has been claimed by eyewitnesses that there was a large explosion in Huraytan, northern Syria, while three fighter planes were seen overhead.
Rumours of a jet being shot out of the sky come amid heightening tensions between Russian president Vladimir Putin and the West.
The Russians are supposed to be bombing ISIS targets, but it seems the majority of their missiles are hitting areas where the extremist group is not present.
U.S. officials said this week that Russia – a key ally of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad – has directed parts of its air campaign against U.S.-funded and other moderate opposition groups in a concerted effort to weaken them.
However, Russia has claimed its forces hit 55 ISIS targets in Syria in the 24 hours to Saturday – although Putin’s jets were also a key factor in helping Syrian troop to seize a village in the centre of the country which was not ISIS-controlled.
The Russians – who have announced plans to increase the number of strikes against ISIS targets – have also clashed with Turkey, after one of their bombers violated Turkish airspace.
But neither side has yet said whether rumours of another of Russia’s planes was shot down in a separate confrontation.
According to reports, one journalist tweeted that three Turkish planes had been responding to ‘mysterious’ lock-ons from MIG-29 jets, which are used by Putin’s forces.
MailOnline has approached both the Russian and Turkish authorities for a comment.A spokesman for Nato said it had so far received no reports of a plane being shot down.
Simple we just gott to show russia how powerful nato is! We got more allies than russia. Play them out. Push them out without shoot at russia jet. We could use air shows fly closer. If they got 50 jets in syria we send double than that. Try not shot their jet down. Work with russia. Try get them join us. If not worked than we will have to all nato and all other allies to full attack russia and maybe china as well. They are only most powerful in the world we needed to defance and win wars! Than once china and russia become so weak no more jets tanks etc etc… than we will let them go. Than start police world again fix damn world. Try figure way to rule whole world as one… whole world could choose one to be our leader together. We can built most powerful army navy more jets. And fight for whole world not just your damn country. We will die for your country. If you willing die for my country. Than we will die together to win every damn of us to get taste a freedoom! No more wars. We need police army to contorl whole world and follow one damn law! More stonger we will be!
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