Russia: Defence Ministry spokesperson denies claim that airstrikes hit hospital

Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov accused "a number of English-language media" of selectively presenting information to suggest that Russian airstrikes had targeted hospitals, during a press conference in Moscow, Monday. Konashenkov described the source of the story, the Syrian-American Medical Society, as having "as much do with both medicine and doctors as ISIS has to do with the International Scout Movement." The spokesman insisted that information on Russian Airforce targets in Syria "is checked for more than a day through several intelligence channels. Only after having checked all this information and arriving at 100 percent certainty concerning the targets does the airforce perform a strike against ISIS infrastructure using precision munitions."