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Russian pilot has 'Aleppo moment', forgets to bomb terrorists instead of civilians

Russian pilot has 'Aleppo moment', forgets to bomb terrorists instead of civilians

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Oct 05, 2022
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ALEPPO, Syria — A Russian pilot patrolling the skies over Syria claimed he had an "Aleppo moment" yesterday after he forget that he was supposed to bomb terrorists, and not the civilian targets directly below him.

The pilot, Capt. Sergei Petrov, apologized for the harmless gaffe soon after he dropped a number of bombs on a suburb of Aleppo that killed ha…

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