The planes pilot managed to eject himself but was killed in a subsequent ground fight russian Syrian Government planes have been targeting rebel fighters since december with more than thirty killed on saturday alone the u. N. Says some one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the violence Stephanie Decker reports from the turkey syria border. Oh. This is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. I mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didnt survive. There are. These syrian fighters its a huge symbolic victory. Russian the Syrian Government have intensified their bombardment it province over the last two months Government Forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province under full rebel control. Theyre inching closer to the city of socketed which lies on a strategic road linking the northwest all the way to the capital damascus territory that is now almost fully under government control. And in syrias complex