Delivering his annual state of the nation address yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will not ignore what he described as Turkey’s “aiding of terrorists”, adding that the November shooting down of the Sukhoi Su-24 plane was a “treacherous war crime”. He said Turkey will ‘more than once’ regret shooting down the Russian jet near the Syrian-Turkey border and that Turkey will regret it more than once. Russia has already banned some Turkish food imports as part of a wider retaliatory sanctions package. Putin said:
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