Confirmation from Russia has also arrived. After the statements made by the US and the UK, the Kremlin acknowledged that Russian plane crash over Sinai last October 31st he was the victim of a terrorist attack.
This was also reiterated by the head of the security services Aleksandr Bortnikov who stated "We can say without a shadow of a doubt that it was a terrorist act".
Traces of foreign-made explosives, a real one, would have been found among the remains of the aircraft homemade bomb with the power of one kilo of TNT.
The 224 dead of 31 October therefore – 217 passengers and seven crew members who departed from Sharm el-Sheikh and headed for St. Petersburg – are therefore the first civilian victims of the offensive unleashed by Russia in Syria at the end of September. The reaction was extremely harsh by Vladimir Putin: "We will find them, wherever they are on the planet, and we will punish them". During the G20 meeting in Antalya, the Russian President called for a united front against the Islamic State, and at the same time held a meeting with Barack Obama. In the coming days, the Russian president will meet Hollande.