Russia Says US Planes Bombed Syria's Aleppo On Wednesday, Not Russian Ones: Report

Moscow: Russia's Defence Ministry said today that US aircraft had carried out a bombing attack on the Syrian town of Aleppo on Wednesday, which the US later said had been carried out by Russian planes, the TASS agency reported.

TASS cited a defence ministry spokesman as saying that two US A-10 ground attack aircraft, flying from Turkey, had bombed objects in Aleppo.

The spokesman also said that a Pentagon spokesman had accused Russia of bombing two hospitals in the town on Wednesday.