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Russia retaliates for shot down jet over US-backed rebel area of Syria

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
A Russian Su-25 warplane was shot down over Syria’s Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Saturday. The pilot safely ejected from his plane, but he was killed by militants on the ground.  This report, corroborated by the Russian Defense Ministry and RIA Novosti specifies events this way (translated and edited from Russian):

Rebels plan chemical false flag on day UN slams US for killing civilians

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated that a Syrian terrorist group Shabab al-Sunnah is preparing a chemical weapons attack which it plans to blame on the Syrian government.
Shabab al-Sunnah is a fledgling splinter group associated with the larger terrorist organisation FSA.
Today, Zakharova stated,

ZAKHAROVA: terrorist press release on chemical weapons a “show”

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry has slammed a recent press release from the Salafist terrorist group Failaq Al-Rahman, an affiliate of the Turkish proxy terrorist group FSA.
They recently came out with a press release claiming that Syria launched a chlorine gas attack on their area of occupation in East Ghouta. The statement was drafted in perfect English, using many terms that one would more readily associate with a lawyer than with terrorists who presumably do not speak English as their native tongue.

Trump Approves Direct Arming Of Syrian Kurds With Heavy Weapons

Acommander of the Kurdish womenís self-defense force, known by its Kurdish acronym YPJ, takes a break in Kobani, Syria. (AP/Jake Simkin)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was already making much of his plans to lambaste President Trump during his DC visit later this month, complaining about the US provision of arms and military support to Kurdish factions that Turkey considers terrorists.

Alleged organizer of St.Petersburg metro attack captured on CCTV [Photos of attacker]

UPDATE:
Confirmed photos of the attacker are all over Russian news channels…

Russian news agencies are now reporting that an unnamed source has alleged that the organizer of the blast in the St.Petersburg metro was captured on CCTV.
This is a developing story…

“Alleged organizer of the explosion was captured on surveillance camera in metro.”

Via Sputnik News