O le vaalele a le militeli a Rusia na paʻu i le taimi na taunuu ai i Khmeimim Airbase i Suria, e pei ona taua e le Matagaluega o le puipuiga a Rusia. Ono tagata auvaa faapea foi 26 pasese na fasiotia i le faalavelave, faaopoopo.

E tusa ai ma faʻamatalaga muamua, o le mea na tupu e ono mafua mai i se le atoatoa faʻatinoga, fai mai le matagaluega.

"Pe tusa o le 15:00 (taimi o Moscow, 12:00 GMT), na paʻu ai se vaalele felauaiga a Rusia An-26 ao sau i totonu mo le tulaueleele i le ea o Khmeimim," o le faamatalaga na tuuina mai e le matagaluega. "O i latou uma sa i luga o le vaa na feoti [i le mea na tupu]," o le faaopoopo mai lea.

O le vaʻalele na pa i le eleele tusa ma le 500 mita mai le landi vaʻalele. E leʻi i lalo o le afi ae leʻi tupu le faalavelave, fai mai le militeri a Rusia.

O le Antonov An-26 o se masaga lua afi turboprop vaʻalele fuafuaina o se multipurpose auala vaʻalele felauaiga. Na atiaʻe i le Soviet Union i le 1960s. E tusa ma le 450 sea vaalele o loʻo tautua pea, ma le tele o vaʻa a latou na faʻaaogaina e le militeri a Rusia.

Ua molimauina e Lusia le anoano o faalavelave tau vaalele i totonu o Suria. I le tulaga muamua, o se Mi-24 helikopa na paʻu ona o se faʻatekonolosi leaga latalata i le malae vaʻalele a le militeri a Syrian Hama i le New Year Eva Na feoti uma pailate o le helikopa.

OA MEA E AVEA MAI LENEI TUSI:

In the previous such case, a Mi-24 helicopter crashed due to a technical fault near the Syrian Hama military airfield on New Year's Eve.
00 GMT), a Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed while coming in for landing at the Khmeimim airbase,” the statement issued by the ministry said.
The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engine turboprop aircraft designed as a multipurpose tactical transport plane.