"At 6:53 a.m. on July 30, the [pro-American] coalition’s MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle once again dangerously approached a Russian Su-34 plane," Russian state-owned TASS cited Oleg Gurinov, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, as saying.
Gurinov added that the alleged incident took place near Raqqa. The center is affiliated to Moscow’s defense ministry and was set up in 2016 together with
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
and in agreement with the US.
Last week, US Air Force announced that Russian aircraft had flown close to a US drone in Syria, "harassing the MQ-9 and deploying flares from a position directly overhead." The Russian aircraft struck the drone, damaging its propeller, according to the US.
Earlier this month, the US said Russian aircraft had harassed MQ-9 drones over Syria twice within 24 hours. In March, Washington said a Russian jet damaged the propeller of a drone, causing it to crash over the Black Sea.
According to Gurinov, 12 violations by US drones were recorded in Syrian airspace in 24 hours.
Also on Sunday, TASS quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
as warning that Russia is "ready for any scenario" but does not want conflict with the US. Moscow also claimed that the US coalition made "23 dangerous approaches" to Russian aircraft in Syria.
The US-led coalition maintains its presence in Syria where it claims to be fighting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS), alongside local Kurdish forces. Russia has been the Syrian regime’s strongest ally throughout the Syrian war.