MOSCOW - Turkey's allegations that a Russian warplane violated its airspace are not backed by any factual data and are a premeditated provocation, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Monday. 'The hysteria launched by the Turkish side that we define as 'unsubstantiated propaganda' looks pretty much like a premeditated provocation,' the ministry's spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said in a statement. Russia's military is in possession of a video, provided by Syria's general staff of the armed forces and a Syrian opposition group, which shows 'a Turkish artillery battery shelling a Syrian frontier village', the statement said. It said Russia's Defense Ministry was awaiting a prompt explanation from NATO, the Pentagon and the Turkish armed forces on the shelling incident
