"The mission’s route ran along the Golan Heights, the southern order, the Euphrates River and over northern Syria," the statement reads. "Russian pilots took off from the Hmeymim Air Base ...

And as if the treacherous, unsecured route with 29 hairpin bends - 16 ... Stone Road from Kemaliye near the Euphrates River The next adventure lies 300 kilometres south-west along the Kemaliyes ...