Reuters should retract fake Assad ‘plane crash’ story – Moscow

"The Western outlet is guilty of spreading the very fakes that it “so zealously” fights, Maria Zakharova has said.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has suggested that Reuters should retract a story claiming that it was “highly likely” that Assad died in a plane crash while leaving Syria.
Assad left Syria in the early hours of Sunday morning, as Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) jihadists and US-armed Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants stormed Damascus. Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed a plane believed to be carrying Assad leaving the Syrian capital and heading in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, before making a U-turn and disappearing from the map.
Shortly afterwards, Reuters reported that “there was a very high probability that Assad may have been killed in a plane crash as it was a mystery why the plane took a surprise U-turn and disappeared,” citing two anonymous “Syrian sources.”
After Russia’s TASS news agency confirmed that Assad had landed in Moscow and been granted asylum, Zakharova took to Telegram to bash Reuters for spreading “fake” news." RT