Russia pounds Islamic State strongholds with vengeance
Russian television broadcast a video in which a man is seen scrawling "For our people!" and "For Paris!" in black pen on bombs minutes before a warplane is set to take off from the country's airbase in Syria.
"For our people! For Paris! Pilots and technicians of #Hmeymim airbase sent a message to terrorists by airmail," the Russian defence ministry said on its official Twitter account.
Earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to "punish" those behind a bomb attack that brought down a passenger jet over Sinai last month, killing all 224 people, mostly Russians.
Russia has been conducting a bombing campaign in Syria since September 30, the country's largest foreign intervention outside the former Soviet Union since the occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.
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