On Tuesday, Russia confirmed that NATO member Turkey had shot down a Russian fighter jet on Syrian a Syrian border, threatening a spike in tensions between them. The Turkish army said the plane was shot down by two Turkish F-16s after violating Turkish airspace 10 times within a five-minute period.
The fighter jet exploded in mid-air, crashing in a fireball onto a mountain on the Syrian side of the border. Reacting to the incident, Vladimir Putin said: "Today's loss is linked to a stab in the back delivered to us by accomplices of terrorists. I cannot qualify what happened today as anything else. Our plane was shot down on Syrian territory by an air-to-air missile from an F-16. It fell on Syrian territory 4 kilometres from the Turkish border. It was flying at 6,000 metres 1 kilometre from Turkish territory when it was attacked."
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