Russian-Turkish row over jet downing escalates
Russian President Vladimir Putin has castigated Turkey’s leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria.
In a state of the nation speech, broadcast live on Russian television, he said that “if anyone thinks Russia’s reaction will be limited to trade sanctions, they are deeply mistaken”.
“We’ll remind them again what they did - they will regret it.”
Russia’s fight against “terrorists” came top in his speech to parliament.
At the start he praised the widows of the two Russian servicemen killed in the Su-24 incident in Syria. The widows were sitting in the Kremlin audience for his speech.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan countered Russia’s allegations in a televised speech, saying that Turkey had proof that Moscow was involved in illegal oil trade with the IS group in Syria.
“We have the proof in our hands. We will reveal it to the world,” the Turkish leader said.
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